Valentine
Vinegar Valentine, Penny Dreadful, Comic Valentine, Hand colored
England: Unknown, c1870s. One printed and hand colored and one original art Penny Dreadful valentines with the same theme -- the maid is smitten with the Bobbie and he is smitten with her fare - from mutton to beer. The first, single-fold, with the maid having the upper hand atop.....
Price: $250.00
Comic Valentine, Occupations, Love and Friendship
1850s. A single-fold hand colored vinegar valentine or Penny Dreadful. It depicts a women with exaggerated facial features and hair behind a bar pouring a pint. It is captioned: Oh, what a bob! and what a chin! What eyes! and what a nose! What charming smiles! what winning ways! What.....
Price: $50.00
Penny Dreadful, Vinegar Valentine, Social History
1880s. A 7 1/4" x 4 1/2" black and white image printed on gray stock depicting a proper women with an uncharacteristically large nose. It is captioned "Often when I fain would kiss Your sweet lips of ruby hue, This sad thought doth spoil my bliss That, - your nose.....
Price: $50.00
Love and Friendship, Poetry
American. 1860-1870. A single-fold 7 3/4" x 4 7/8" lithograph valentine printed on plain paper. Image depicts a strolling somewhat sorrowful appearing couple. Decorative floral and filigree border. The verse below reads: That arching brow and clustering hair-- That face all void of art-- The speaking glance, and modest air.....
Price: $100.00
Valentine Writer, Love and Friendship, Courtship, Poetry, Advertising
[1840]. An 8" x 10 3/4" advertisement for "Cupid's Bower". Official title - Cupid' s bower, or The poetical garden of love: a collection of original valentines calculated to convey the sentiments of the heart in language neat, chaste, and expressive. It features a courting couple at center seated on.....
Price: $500.00
Penny Dreadful, Vinegar Valentine, Social History
A 6 3/4" x 4 1/2" penny dreadful depicting a true dandy, complete with top hat, watch fob and walking crop. It is captioned "You are indeed a vulgar creature, With Bull-dog stamped on every feature"
Price: $75.00
Valentine's Day, Love and Friendship, Work's by Children
United States: 1870s-1900s. A gathering of eight (8) handmade Valentines produced between 1870 and the early 1900s. Each unique and colorful example employs cut or folded paper techniques and/or Victorian scraps. Some have short messages inscribed in ink. Together, they form a lovely representation of the practice of hand-making Valentines.....
Price: $175.00
Quarto lace paper valentine, dobbs, kidd, hymens ledger, paper dolls, paper americana, ephemera, paper toy, menus, travel americana, children's books, valentines elaborate lace paper valentine
A 7” x 4 ¾” embossed die-cut valentine with elaborate gilt enhanced lace paper in a mirrored shape hinged to the front. Embellished with feathers and a silk flower. Center exposes image of rose garden beneath. Dresden scrap of a fountain or monument at top. Embossed die-cut oval shaped printed.....
Price: $125.00
Valentine, Love & Friendship, Courtship, Sequins
1830. Single sheet depicts a courting couple. The women collecting a small bouquet of wheat. The oval hand colored engraving is decorated with hand stitched sequins surrounding the engraving. Reverse is blank. Measures 9" x 7 3/4"
Price: $225.00
Handmade, Lace Paper, Love and Friendship, Dressed, Fabric and Textiles, Hidden Messages
England: 1870s. A handsome octavo (9.5" by 6.25") Valentine handmade with lace paper, Victorian scrap, a print, fabric, and beads. The chromolithographed scrap, which resembles a fan, opens to reveal a rhyme: "I have no doubt as sure as day, Time will bring the Happy day." Inside the center oval.....
Price: $250.00
Handmade, Lace Paper, Love and Friendship. Little Red Ridinghood
United States: 1870s. Handmade duodecimo Valentine (5.5" by 3.75") using green polished paper, Victorian scraps, and very fine examples of lace paper. One lace paper utilizes floral motifs, while the other depicts a bucolic scene with stags The embossed die-cut scrap is of Little Red Ridinghood and the Wolf....
Price: $125.00
Made by Hand, Love Token, watch Paper
A 1.75" in diameter sawtooth cut watch paper love token. A somewhat naive watercolor basked filed with roses, tulips, anemone and forget-me-nots. reverse is blank. Early 19th C little watercolor on paper watch papers were given by young women to replace the traditional printed paper often housed in a watch.....
Price: $275.00
Humor, Vinegar Valentines
United States: c.1885. A most charming and humorous mechanical: when the tab is pulled, the young lady applies copious amounts of rouge to her cheeks in front of her mirror. The verse below decries the amount of makeup young ladies wear to obscure their natural features: "False are the roses.....
Price: $250.00
Quarto lace paper valentine, dobbs, kidd, hymens ledger, paper dolls, paper americana, ephemera, paper toy, menus, travel americana, children's books, valentines Intricate lace paper valentine, Cupid, valentine card, sailing vessel cupid,
A 5” x 3” elaborate and intricate lace paper with Cupid in a sail boat as the center cartouche. The delicate center design is actually part of the lace paper attached only by the grasses on the side and from the mast and flags at top. Gilt enhanced. Floral scraps.....
Price: $60.00
Women's Suffrage, Ellen H. Clapsaddle
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Wolf & Co., 1910s. A rather charming women's suffrage-themed Valentine postcard, with artwork by Ellen H. Clapsaddle (1865-1934) depicting a baby girl wearing a bright yellow "Votes for Women" sash and the tagline "Love me, Love my Vote". Measures 5.25" by 3.5". Contemporary pencil inscription to verso: "Eva.....
Price: $150.00
Mansell, Valentine,
A single fold valentine with intricate embossed lace paper cover. A horn of flowers at center surrounded by symmetrical decorative devices. Tucked in the card is a die cut page in vibrant geometric pattern and a verse, “My Hope”. Overall excellent. Scrapbook residue on reverse.
Price: $20.00
Valentine, Love & Friendship, Courtship
1830s. Single page sheet with two cut-out and applied lithographs of gents; one appearing to be a barber. A rather odd accompaniment to the verse that reads: Good Morning valentine Ye virgins who hear; learn example from this Take care how you finally to part with a kiss Conceal for.....
Price: $225.00
Paper with a Secret, Novelty Valentine, Women, Love and Friendship, Gender Roles
124 Cheapside, London: F. Passmore, [1890]. A single fold lace paper valentine titled "The requisite Contents of a Ladys' Dressing Case? Without these Articles none can be Complete The case is a paper grid with 20 presumed beauty with a larger casket at center. Includes items as Best Court Plaister.....
Price: $650.00
Love and Friendship, Valentine, Women's History, Lace Paper
A 7" x 4 7/8" single-fold valentine with a delicately die-cut lace paper cover. A page of yellow backing paper is affixed inside the valentine with an applied forget-me-not visiting card. The lace paper depicts an elegant woman with finely die-cut and embossed petticoats and detailing on her dress. The.....
Price: $110.00
Love and Friendship, Lace Paper, Theorem
1850s. A 7" x 4 3/4" single-fold valentine with a lace paper cover. The lace paper cover has a solid center cartouche with large format leaves and flowering vine surrounding the cartouche. A hand painted lyre shaped vine and two applied hand colored flowers adorn the cartouche (in the style.....
Price: $100.00
eclectibles, paper dolls, paper americana, ephemera, paper toy, menus, travel americana, children's books, valentines Octavo lace paper valentine, wood valentine, Windsor valentine, forget me not, Dresden scrap,
An octavo size valentine with lace paper cover backed with fine silk mesh and watercolor red roses with green vines and gilt embellishment. It depicts a woman standing in a garden setting. The open area amongst the tree canopy above has an applied intricate Dresden scrap of a bird’s nest.....
Price: $85.00
Embroidered silk valentine, rimmel valentine, stevengraph friendship tokein,
A 7” x 4 ½” lace paper only applied to what was once the top of a valentine. It is unidentified, but elaborate lace paper with gilt embellishment. This is topped with an applied silk ribbon border and a center cartouche with embroidered silk roses captioned “To My Friend”. The.....
Price: $50.00
Love and Friendship, Lace Paper, Octavo, Windsor
1840s-1850s. A 6 7/8" x 4 3/4" intricately cut lace paper of elaborate garden scene with a man and woman across the courtyard. Marked Windsor, bottom left. A 3" x 2 1/4" applied lace paper hinged door with applied hand colored floral array and Dresden arrow pierced heart. When lifted.....
Price: $100.00
transportation, steamship valentine, eclectibles, valentines, honeycomb, open-out valentine, paper dolls, vintage paper dolls, paper americana, ephemera, paper toy, menus, children's books, early 20th century valentine, valentines with children
An embossed, die cut, fold down, 10 3/4" by 6" four tier valentine card. Once opened you can see the bright red honeycomb located under the pair of dove birds sitting on a climbing rose bush. To the left is a young girl holding a basket of flowers. In front.....
Price: $50.00