Gilt and Embossed Christmas Greeting Card
United Kingdom, 1890. Very good. Toned with short tear to fold.. An attractive gilt and embossed Christmas greeting card, made from two embossed and gilt chromolithographed cards bonded together at the left-hand edge. When the upper card is lifted, a message is revealed that reads, "Christmas joys and truest pleasure May the season bring to thee! Peace and... Read More
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A Collection of over 295 Greeting Cards depicting Gender Roles Differentiation 1930s-1980s
United States, 1980. Condition is overall very good. Some with scrapbook residue attached.. We are presenting a collection of novelty greeting cards accumulated by an advanced collector over a period of thirty-plus years. This collection includes over 295 cards and was extracted from a much larger collection and includes only those depicting clear gender roles differentiation. Although presented... Read More
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T.B. Davis Arms Co. Catalogue No. 46
Portland, Maine: T.B. Davis Arms Co, 1900. Good. Toned with minor bumping, short tears. Wrappers detached, chipped, loose, with tape repairs.. Trade catalogue for T.B. Davis Arms Co., "Jobbers of Sporting Goods of Quality" (upper wrapper). Includes descriptions, pricing, dimensions, and illustrations for dozens of products ranging from fishing poles and hooks to nets, knives, and batteries. Lower... Read More
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Price Lists - A collection Spanning 100 Years Examining the Availability, Distribution, Price and Pricing Consideration of Food & Other Commodities
United States, 1935. Overall very good; few rough edges.. The collection includes 83 food and associated commodities price lists, catalogs, ledgers, invoices, postal card advertisements and more. It spans a 100 year period and provides considerable information regarding the availability, distribution, price and pricing consideration of these commodities. The materials represent 40 different American markets, with heavy weight... Read More
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Alphabet de la Brodeuse
France: Dollfus-Mieg & Cie. Unpaginated hard cover with 91 alphabet and other decorative pattern plates, over eight in three color. Also includes ten perforated removable plates for transfer. This is followed by approximately fifty pages of narrative with images from photographs of completed works and more. Paper separation inside cover where paper meets back strip. Small area of paper... Read More
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Gold vs Steel" -- Chromolithographed Pen Nib Advertisement
New York, New York: Aikin Lambert & Co, 1890. Very good. Light toning, light dust soiling or surface wear to front.. A comic pen nib advertisement, chromolithographed in blue and red tones. Depicts a Roman coliseum with a packed crowd cheering on a victor looming over his opponent; the victor holds a pen with Aiken Lambert brand nib,... Read More
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Peiffer Brothers Trade Catalogue - [Seal Presses, Stencils, Rubber Stamps]
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Peiffer Brothers, 1890. Very good. Some dust soiling, a couple nicks or marks.. Trade catalogue advertising products sold by the engravers Peiffer Brothers of Philadelphia, including seal presses, stencils, rubber stamps, and other stationary and office supplies. Includes illustrations of the product and the impression as well as pricing and, in the case of the stamps... Read More
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Mary Ann; or, how a child can give itself to Jesus and Little James
New York: American Tract Society, 1867. 32 pp. Applied marble cover, two stories 16 pp each. Two stories, Mary Ann no. 51 , discusses a new Sabbath school in New York and Little James no. 52, which describes a boy who memorizes Dr. Watts' First Catechism before he could read. 4 1/2" x 3" cover worn, foxing and staining... Read More
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Santa Fe Railroad - California Limited Westbound. The Indian and Mexican Building. 12th Edition
Albuquerque, New Mexico: Fred Harvey, n.d.. Very good.. An unnumbered 16 page book that includes images from photographs of Natives in and about the museum in exhibits and places of work. Comprehensive narrative on the museum. Points of interest include Blanket Collection, The President's Blanket and its Maker, interiors of Native homes and a curio. Measures 5.25" by... Read More
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Marvel Whirling Spray Syringe for Women
New York, New York: Marvel Company, 1905. Very good. Minor spotting.. A rubber syringe douching product for women, marketed as a solution for a variety of feminine woes including leukorrhea, vaginitis, and painful menstruation, as well as unmentionable "new needs" that arise as a result of "the transition into the marital state", pregnancy, and menopause. Includes directions for... Read More
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Vin Mariani, Cocaine & Wine, Patent Medicine - A collection of 150 post cards "L'Album Mariani" designed by famous artists
1910. A collection of post cards introduced in five series of thirty created by renown artists of the day. Of the 150 cards this offering includes 119 original unused post cards and 31 photocopies of the original cards (place holders). The images were created by the artist, usually designed after one of their original works but making the Vin Mariani... Read More
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Popular Toasts" Pop-Up Card
New York, New York: Emerson's Bromo Seltzer, 1892. Very good. Minor discoloration/spotting and toning.. A cleverly designed pop-up card chromolithographed by Donaldson Bros., advertising Emerson's Bromo Seltzer. Includes popular wedding and celebration toasts on the outside, and within, a gentleman with a pop-up arm raises his glass alongside the slogan: "Let us have wine and women, mirth and... Read More
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Album 1875-1878 Boston Normal School
Gilt black leather cover. A true autograph book with signatures, location, and date. Most in Boston or the Boston area. Several from Normal School and/or with gem size photos at upper right corner; mostly women. A few state "Boston Normal School Class '78" other say "C.H.S. class of '75" and include the town of Charlestown. Mass. 5" x 8"... Read More
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Basic Training Notes [for] Bakery School -- Baking at Camp Lee in 1943
Camp Lee, Virginia: Supply Training Section, 1943. Good. Toned with chipping, loss to edges due to brittle paper. Dust soiled with some staining.. Typewritten and mimeographed booklet of "Basic Training Notes" for Bakery School produced by the Quartermaster Replacement Training Center at Fort Lee in Virginia, complete with charming cartoon of two young recruits scratching their heads in... Read More
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Paper Doll Valentine Greeting Card
United States, 1930. Very good. Some toning, staining where envelope is glued to card. Some creases to doll.. A scarce intact example of a paper doll greeting card from c.1930, with a cut paper doll of a little girl who can be dressed up in two different outfits and inserted into the front of the card to show... Read More
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Borden's Irradiated Vitamin D Milk
N.pl: P.L. Co, 1940. Near-fine. Light toning, some light surface wear and tear to back panel. Folding illustrated advert for "Borden's Irradiated Vitamin D Milk", marketed to mothers of infants and small children as being packed with nutritious vitamins for the prevention of childhood diseases such as rickets. In this context, the term "irradiated" roughly means "pasteurized" or... Read More
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Fiesta Paper Dolls
USA: Saalfield, ArtCraft, No. 1723, 1960. A 12 1/2" x 10 1/2" book with six (6) paper dolls to cut out from the the covers. Each is dressed in Hispanic influenced attire. Includes four (4) pages of festive traditional costumes to cut for the dolls. Each garment is labeled with the country of origin. The countries include Uruguay, Guatemala,... Read More
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Elaborate Salesman Sample of Henry Milward & Son's Needles presented by George A. Clark & Brothers, Sole Agents in the USA
1975. An eleven (11) fold leather salesman sample folio of Henry Milward & Son's. Gold stamp cover with image of sailing vessel. The folio contains a wide varieties of H. Milward Helix needles and Watson's Sharps. Individual sizes arrayed and stitched to the heavy stock display cards. They include a wide variety of sizes of sharps, betweens, gd. downs,... Read More
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Vintage Vacuum Cleaner Service Kit, Ohio Carbon Co
Very neat dispoay item, Vacuum Cleaner Service Kit No. 10, including various carbon brushes, springs, oil wicks. From The Ohio Carbon Company, Cleveland. Sturdy cardboard box, covered with black paper, unmarked on outside. Label under lid mentions chart, which was not found, however, the compartments are labeled. Condition: minor wear to litho on outside, with minor chips, edges and... Read More
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The Pets' Panorama: A Novel Picture Book for Children
London and New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co. Fine; extremities rubbed, central pop-up detached from spine.. A charming illustrated children's book of poetry and prose with four (4) two-page pop-up spreads depicting: a farmer and son plowing a field with horses; a sleeping child among a gentle flock of sheep and lambs; four children playing... Read More
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Be a Li'l Miss Designer Dressmaking Kit No. 898
Brooklyn: Neptune Plastics, Inc, 1960. An unused large format book titled Be a Li'l Miss Designer - With this revolutionary new Colorful Self-Sticking Plastic Dressmaking Kit - No Glue No Sewing No Mess! Manufactured by Neptune Plastics, Inc. Brooklyn 16, NY.No. 898. Includes 4 different colors, 6 different styles (patterns), one 13" Model Doll that stands by itself, 4... Read More
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Photo Album - Colonial Afternoon in Honor of George Washington Bicentennial
Franklin, MA, 1832. A 16 page photo album. Wrappers. Second Grade, Thayer School. With seven (7) original mounted photographs of children and teachers dressed in "colonial" attire; some with powdered wigs. One photo is a class shot with a young man presumably Washington with a tricon hat at center. another depicts the children dancing a minuet. Another with Colonial... Read More
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The Posie-Poetry Book: A Posie of Old Rhymes and Verses
Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1920. unpaginated. Cloth cover with printed title and applied illustration,frontispiece, illustrations through out signed Anne Anderson. A collection of popular verses and poetry with illustrations and color plates. Some titles include, Little Jack Horner, Buttercups and Daisies, Lady Moon, and How Doth the Little Busy Bee. 9 1/4" x 7" wear and staining on... Read More
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Institute of Religious Science and Philosophy, Inc. -- Mailing Circular and Calendar for February, 1936
Los Angeles, California: Institute of Religious Science and Philosophy, Inc, 1936. Very good. Minor staining.. A mailing circular promoting the Institute of Religious Science and Philosophy, Inc., and its February 1936 calendar, featuring a series of talks by its founder, Ernest Holmes, speaking on the following subjects: "Religious Science is Life in Action"; "Mind is the Creative Law... Read More
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Onken Younits" -- Window Display Furniture Trade Catalogue
Cincinnati, Ohio: The Oscar Onken Co, 1912. Good to very good. Toned with some wear/chipping to covers.. Trade catalogue advertising interchangeable wood window fixture units, for display of anything from hats and clothing to shoes, corsets, linens and toiletries. The trade catalogue, published for and marketing to dry goods and general stores, includes three (3) 1.5" by 2"... Read More
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