Victoriana
British Monarch, Die-cut Scrap, British History
Eight (8) different approximately 12 1/2" x5" easel back chromollithograph Victorian scraps of British monarchy and royals. They are captioned as follows: Richard . (Coeur de Lion) 1189-1199 Anne Boleyn Wife of Henry VII 1533-1536 Queen Mary 1553-1558 Queen Elizabeth 1558-1603 Charles I. 1625-1649 Queen Ann 1702-1714 George III 1760-1820.....
Price: $600.00
Humor,Embossed die-cut Valentine,Moveable,Hand-colored, Alamanac
England: 1850s. A charming example of "paper with a secret" in Valentine form: small embossed die-cut bifolium with hand-colored scrap on front depicting an almanac that, when lifted, reveals the rest of the message. The message reads in full: "Why are you like an Almanack? / Because you should name.....
Price: $125.00
Victoriana, Paper Doilies, Social History, Larkin Co.
Buffalo, NY: Larkin Co., c1890s. An 8" circular boxed set of graduated size embossed die-cut linen paper doilies for household decoration and craft design. The box cover has an applied doily replicating the pattern with the addition of the embossed logo and Larkin Co. Buffalo USA imprint. The sizes measure.....
Price: $150.00
Trade Catalogue, Visiting Cards, Address Cards, Social History
Clintonville, CT: Clinton Brothers, [1880]. A twofold or 6pp brochure with an illustration of the two brothers promoting their "Fashionable Visiting and Address Cards" Special attention will be paid to orders by mail Content includes pricing information for Centennial Chromo, Illuminated Chromo and Water Cards, Glass, Embossed Mourning, French Enameled.....
Price: $225.00
Manuscript,Love Poetry,Valentine's Day,Pastoral
England: Mullard, 1860s. An elaborate and remarkably well-preserved octavo-sized Valentine, featuring gilt embellished lace paper, embossed Victorian scrap. This example is also notable for the extensive poem inside written in contemporary ink manuscript, beginning, "Where is another sweet as my sweet, Fair of the fair, and shy of the shy.....
Price: $125.00
Victoriana, Beadwork, Playing Cards, Perforated Paper
A 2 3/4" x 3 3/4" litho on pressed board box with inner sleeve for holding playing cards. The top surface is perforated or punch paper (20 punch holes/inch) with embossed die-cut gilt border. The beadwork design is created using miniature glass and metal beads. The scene depicts a lyre.....
Price: $275.00
Victoriana, Beadwork, Playing Cards, Perforated Paper
A 2 3/4" x 3 3/4" litho on pressed board box with inner sleeve for holding playing cards. The top surface is perforated or punch paper (20 punch holes/inch) with embossed die-cut gilt border. The beadwork design is created using miniature glass and metal beads. The scene depicts a sword.....
Price: $275.00
Lace paper,Ballerinas,Putti,Weeping Willow
United States: 1850s. An elaborate and remarkably well-preserved embossed lace paper colored with blue and pink, depicting ballerinas, putti, and swans underneath a canopy of weeping willow branches. Measures approx. 4.5" by 7", for octavo-sized Valentine.
Price: $85.00
Coquetry,Flirtation,Valentine's Day
England: 1840s. A humorous handmade Valentine, made from two hand-colored characters cut from an etching (a barber brandishing a razor, and a man in night shirt and night cap). The manuscript inscription reads: "Good Morning valentine. Ye virgins that hear, learn [?] from this / take care how too freely.....
Price: $200.00
Valentine's Day,Hand-colored lithograph
England: 1850s. Hand-colored lithographed 4to-sized bifolium Valentine (8.5" by 6.75"), with a three-stanza Valentine's Day poem underneath an image of a young couple. The couple are depicted in a drawing room, with the gentleman seated and showing his love a book with love hearts in it. The poem begins, "Faithful.....
Price: $110.00
Hand-colored Valentine, Love and Friendship
[United Kingdom]: 1840s. A particularly beautiful hand-colored Valentine with the original postmarked envelope addressed to Miss Lydia M. Wales of Upton, Massachusetts. The image depicts a beautiful young lady reading a letter in a rose garden, surrounded by verse that begins, "One look of love from those bright eyes /.....
Price: $175.00
Lace Paper,Flora,Embossed Scrap
England: 1850s. An attractive octavo Valentine with intricately produced lace paper, depicting wild roses and lace surrounding a young couple. Opens to reveal two scraps: one embossed with two birds, and the other depicting a swan with the phrase "I am yours and thou art mine". Larger floral scrap to.....
Price: $125.00
Valentines,Lace Paper,Embossed Scrap,Flora
United States: 1850s. A circular lace paper Valentine measuring approx. 4" in diameter, made from two layers of fine lace paper woven together with dark blue silk ribbon, and decorated with embossed paper applied scraps. Features a large silver embossed scrap in the center, with the image of a white.....
Price: $85.00
Trade Card, Hair Emporium
[Brooklyn, New York?]: F.J. Medina's Hair Emporium, c.1865. Printed trade card (3.25" by 2", printed in red and black on coated card) promoting Ivin's Opera Hair Crimpers, sold by F.J. Medina's Hair Emporium. Includes an image of a stylish young woman with crimped hair on the recto, and an address.....
Price: $75.00
Valentine,Lace Paper,Scrap,Artificial Flowers
UK: Wood, 1850s. A lavishly decorated handmade octavo Valentine made from lace paper, silk artificial flora, real sprigs of flora, and embossed scrap. The overall effect is of a lavish natural wreath surrounding a bouquet of roses and wildflowers. Measures approx. 7.25" by 5"
Price: $125.00
Hand-colored Valentine, Love and Friendship
[United Kingdom]: 1840s. Lithographed Valentine with hand coloring, depicting a handsome couple against a rural countryside town backdrop, and with verse below: "Licensed by Valentines Saint, / Our sex on this day may reveal / The hopes, and the fears, and the plaints, / That on others they're forced to.....
Price: $275.00
Valentine's Day
United States: 1850s. An attractive Valentine featuring delicate embossed paper, yellow coloring, and a large scrap in the central oval depicting a couple on their wedding day. Also features a bright red and gold scrap depicting an arrow piercing a heart. Housed in the original lithographed envelope addressed in ink.....
Price: $110.00
Original Artwork,Union Jack,Silk Mesh,Lace Paper,Feathers
England: 1860s. An attractive handmade Valentine featuring fine examples of silk mesh, hand-colored silk, floral lace paper, and real applied feathers. The hand-colored silk depicts two intertwined flags, one reading "Love and Constancy" and the other a Union Jack. Octavo-sized, measuring approx. 7.5" by 5"
Price: $110.00
Lace paper,Valentines,Embossed Victorian Scrap
England: 1850s. A particularly fine example of embossed lace paper with gilding, for use in an octavo-sized Valentine, adorned with embossed Victorian scrap. Depicts a fairy queen surrounded by flora and birds in flight, above the phrase "Queen of My Heart". The background is an elaborate series of fountains draped.....
Price: $100.00
Penny Dreadful, Vinegar Valentine, Social History
[1860]. An 8" x 5 1/4" color lithograph illustration of a statuesque and proper lady borders by embossed whimsical anthropomorphic heart characters surrounding the margins. It is captioned: "Stepped from a pedestal to take the air", You'd think she had, she looks so statuesque, Or ancient Heroine from who.....
Price: $125.00
Valentines,Lace Paper,Token of Love
United States: 1850s. An attractive duodecimo-sized Valentine on lace paper with water color rosebud and morning glory, with an applied scrap reading "Token of Love". Scrap has a tiny image of an engagement ring in the center. Measures approx. 5.75" by 3.75"
Price: $75.00
Trinket Box, Chocolate Box, Childhood Ephemera
1880s. A 3 3/4" x 3 1/2" paper covered pressed board box with applied litho of a young fair haired girl on the cover. Within are eight (8) small boxes each with a portion of the cover litho applied as though the boxes were a puzzle. Although the boxes could.....
Price: $325.00
Vinegar Valentines, Humor, Job Printing, Gender, Masculinity, Gender Roles, Family and Domestic Work
London: G. Ingram, 1860s. Two (2) large Vinegar Valentines produced by G. Ingram of London. These particular Vinegar Valentines are quite large compared to others produced at the time; one here measures 25.5" by 9.25", while the other measures 21" by 8.25". Most would generally be about a third or.....
Price: $450.00
Silk Mesh,Lace Paper,Embossed Scrap
England: 1850s. A fine lace paper Valentine featuring embossed Victorian gilt scrap of Cupid, a hand-colored lithographed image of a couple inside, and a very delicate silk mesh window. Two printed stanzas of verse inside, with early ink manuscript below reading, "Dear Ada As sure as grapes Grow on the.....
Price: $65.00