Paper Playthings & Toys
Gender Neutral,Androgyny,Gender in Early Childhood,Gender Expression,Non Binary , ABAA-RBMS-2023
Netherlands: [1950]. Playing with gender: a scarce gender neutral paper doll book from the 1950s, produced in the Netherlands. This example is uncut, and offers four (4) full pages of outfits for the smiling gender neutral paper doll on the lower cover. Includes a mixture of masculine, feminine, and gender.....
Price: $325.00
scrap baby,embossed die-cut scraps
Two 5" embossed, die-cut Victorian scraps of toddlers. Each wearing a lacey& dress with blue ribbon. One smiling child is holding a rattle in her left hand and her right hand is to her lips. ;The other is curiously playing with a wooden toy.
Price: $24.00
Made by Hand, Works by Children, Paper Doll, Pretend Play
[1950s]. Two (2) pen and ink and watercolor paper dolls depicting sisters. The older sister is 5" with 9 costumes for school and play. The younger sister is 3 1/4" with 6 costumes. Each includes night ware. Well drawn and colored in an array of 1950s fashions...
Price: $50.00
Paper Dolls, Pretend Play, Advertising to Children, Premium, Coffee
Toledo OH: Lion Coffee, Woolson Spice Co., c1992. This series of picture story cut-outs or paper dolls each have 4 pieces that when constructed create a scene from a "Nursery Rhyme", depict the activities of an "Occupation" or a room in a "Doll House", all with children in adult situations.....
Price: $1,800.00
Pretend Play, Paper Soldiers, Military, France
France: Imagerie de Nancy, Pellerin and Reunies de Jarville Nancy, [1870]. Six (6) different 15.5" by 11.5" uncut French paper soldiers. They include the Artillerie (Artillery), Drapeaux de l'armee francaise (flags of the French army) Dragons, Armee Francaise Turco et Spahi (Regiments), Armee francaise. Artillerie (Artillery) with 170 artillery men.....
Price: $500.00
Pretend Play, Newspaper Supplement,
Williamsport, PA: Pennsylvania Grit, 1896. An 8" x 9 1/2" card stock art supplement printed for the Pennsylvania Grit newspaper. Copyright 1896, by Forbes Litho, Boston, MA. Supplement for July 26, 1896 depicts eleven (11) cut-outs to be inserted in the slots on and about the coach. Commentary on reverse.....
Price: $65.00
Pretend Play, Newspaper Supplement, Noah's Ark
Williamsport, PA: Pennsylvania Grit, 1896. A 9 1/2" x 8" card stock art supplement printed for the Pennsylvania Grit newspaper. Copyright 1896, by Forbes Litho, Boston, MA. Supplement for July 12, 1896 depicts seven cut-out pairs of animals and an elephant to be inserted in the slots at base surrounding.....
Price: $85.00
Pretend Play, Newspaper Supplement
Williamsport, PA: Pennsylvania Grit, 1896. A 9 1/2" x 8" card stock art supplement printed for the Pennsylvania Grit newspaper. Copyright 1896, by Forbes Litho, Boston, MA. Supplement for June 14, 1896 depicts children and animals to occupy a series of play houses designed from wooden crates. Multipart characters and.....
Price: $65.00
Pretend Play, Newspaper Supplement, Civil War, Childhood Ephemera
Boston, MA: Boston Sunday Globe, 1896. The Forbes Co. Boston, MA. Supplement to the Boston Sunday Globe for April 5, 1896. Five (5) different action scenes from the Battle of New Orleans to be cut-out and used with a theatre stage and platform, that would also have been a weekly.....
Price: $65.00
Pretend Play, Newspaper Supplement, War of 1812, Childhood Ephemera
Boston, MA: Boston Sunday Globe, 1896. The Forbes Co. Boston, MA. Supplement to the Boston Sunday Globe for March 29, 1896. Seven (7) different action scenes from the Battle of New Orleans to be cut-out and used with a theatre stage and platform, that would also have been a weekly.....
Price: $65.00
Pretend Play, Newspaper Supplement,
Williamsport, PA: Boston Sunday Globe, 1896. The Forbes Co. Boston, MA. Supplement for March 15, 1896. It is the two-fold theatre to be used with the series of five historical tableaux. Patriotic decoration with scene of Capital building at side. Uncle Sam is in the audience. Also includes a few.....
Price: $65.00
Aunt Louisa's Big Picture Series, Board games, dice games, games for girls
New York: McLoughin Brothers, 1870. 16 pp, (including covers) Game of croquet, Game of spider and the fly, Game of pearl fisheries, Game of falconry, Game of fishing, and Game of naval engagement. Each game is a board game, with an illustration. A part of Aunt Louisa's Big Picture Series.....
Price: $175.00
Childhood Ephemera, Picture Puzzle, Architecture for Children
1900: Germany. Four (4) different litho on wood jigsaw picture puzzles (Two puzzles printed on both sides). What makes this particularly interesting is that the pieces can also be used to create the architectural elements noted on the inside of the box lid. Housed in a wooden box. Also includes.....
Price: $375.00
Child Development, Embroidery
c1920. A 7 1/2" x 7 1/2" The Child's Delight No. 2 Embroidery Outfit. Complete and unused with 6 doilies , 12 embroidery skeins and 3 embroidery needles. Imagery of little girl happily embroidering on envelope and needle envelope. The paper envelope the kit came in is toned due to.....
Price: $125.00
Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Christmas
Germany: Unknown, c1850s. A 4 1/4" two-sided paper boy doll and his seven (7) two-sided costumes that include background scenes. The boys costumes correlate with occupations/activities and include: Arbalist (crossbowman) scholar with a book a masquerade costume a huntsman a professor with a globe an ice skater recreating with a......
Price: $475.00
Toys, Children, Advertising, Doll Houses
Philadelphia: Ketterlinus, 1895. Uncut sheet (7" by 7"), chromolithograph with foldable furniture for a doll house dining room. Produced by Cosmo Buttermilk Soap Co., it was part of a promotion wherein the customer would send in proof of purchase in exchange for one such dollhouse sets. Each piece promotes a......
Price: $225.00
zoo, zoo animals, anthropomorphic, anthropomorphism, drawing, art, paper playthings, litho, lithography, lithographic
New York: Empire Lithographic Co Inc, 1931. A set of twelve animals (printed two per sheet) meant to comprise a zoo. These anthropomorphic characters are: a pig, a cow, a rabbit, a cat, a fish, a parrot, a rooster, an eagle, a donkey, a dog, an elephant, and a duck.....
Price: $95.00
Children's Toys and Games, Pin the Tail on the Donkey, Party Games
New York, New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1901. The classic children's party game "Pin the Tail on the Donkey", here titled "The Donkey Party Game". Produced by McLoughlin Bros. in 1901, the aim is for each party guest to pin a tail on an illustration of a donkey in the correct.....
Price: $175.00
Peter G. Thomson, Paper Dolls, Pretend Play
Cincinnati: Peter G. Thomson, 1880s. The paper dolls were part of a series of uncut small format penny paper dolls each with one doll and three costumes with matching hats and a cover. This group includes Alice, Mary Bell, Rhoda, and Sallie. They are all uncut and complete sets. Closed.....
Price: $825.00
Composers, Musicians, Dances, Instruments
19-Dec: [1940s]. A set of 48 original watercolor playing cards predominantly music themes. There are 12 suits with four cards each each suit is titled. Each card within the suit has four (4) relevant names e.g. The first set is dances and the names are fox trot, waltz, rumba and.....
Price: $650.00
Paper Doll, Pretend Play,
France: Unknown, c 1890s. No. 74350. An embossed die-cut litho on heavy card paper doll or pretend play set. It includes two (2) 8" dolls Sleeping Beauty and Prince Charming. They are shown in scenes as adolescents and young adults. The adolescent scene he sleeps adjacent she on a fainting.....
Price: $900.00
Pretend Play, Paper Dolls, Social History
Germany: c1850. A 7 1/4" litho on heavy stock paper doll with his original stand and eight (8) costumes and seven (7) hats. The costumes and dolls are colored lithograph with eggwash enhancements. His costumes reflect the affluent lifestyle and times of the young boy of the day. They include.....
Price: $650.00
lotto, mechanical puzzle, paper toy
Each card from a French lotto set has four (4) mechanical parts, that move to reveal the lotto numbers; Great whimsy. Measures 5.25” by 8 5/8”.Light edge wear.
Price: $375.00
dollhouse, doll house, paper doll, Paper Toys
Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Company, c1910. My Real Dollhouse is an activity book where each page when cut out and properly folded makes one room of the doll house. Along with the directions the following rooms are included the Kitchen, the Garden, the Play-Room Circus, the Living-Room, the Nursery, the.....
Price: $125.00