Kellogg's Funny Jungleland: Moving Pictures
Battle Creek, Mich: Kellogg Company, 1932. Overall condition is good. The book features six (6) pages of sliced animals in 6 pieces to provide numerous, hilarious combinations of heads, bodies and feet when flipped about. There are also little verses that pair with the illustrations that give some context, which also happen to mention Kellogg's various cereal products... Read More
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Ebell International Academy - Statement and Proposed Plan European Travel and Object Study of the fourth Class of Ladies
New York, NY: Ebell International Academy Journal, 1875. Most likely cover lacking, with consequence to content.. 24pp booklet beginning with the prospectus for the class of 1876. A course for American Young Ladies who would travel on Hamburg-American Packet Company of the Cunard Line through Hamburg to Berlin. Includes Berlin Courses of Lectures, Exercises and Excursion to concerts,... Read More
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C.M. Henderson & Co. Cut Out New England Red School House Cutout Village
Chicago: C.M. Henderson & Co, 1890. The Little Red School House was a trademark of the C. M. Henderson & Co., and an image of it was stamped on the bottom of one of each pair of shoes it sold. In order to promote the company's 'Red School House Shoes', this cut out school house was given out to... Read More
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Prospectus for The Automatic Store Service Company Circular No. 2
Boston, MA: The Automatic Store Service Company, 1890. Very minor toning,. 4 leaves, staple bound document with brown paper cover with the company name printed on the back. Circular No. 2, printed following the success of the first. The product in question is Church Spring Actuated Cash or Parcel Carrier - parcel delivery; runs uphill from the starting... Read More
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Santa Claus & I will open the store for the Christmas season on December 15th
Warren, NH: Warren News Steam Press, 1894. Letter folds with large pin hole at center.. 12 1/2" x 9" with bold letters at the top reading "Santa Claus and I are prepared to show the most Satisfactory Line of Christmas Goods Ever Shown in Town" with a vignette at left of Santa about to descend the chimney while... Read More
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Contract to Let - Brick School House - Township No. 10
Liberty MO, 1870. A 12 1/2" x 9 1/2" broadside - Contract to Let - Sealed proposals will be received by the undersigned until the First Day of July, 1870 for the erection of a BRICK SCHOOL House, 81 feet long and 51 feet wide, two stories high for Sub-District No 2, in Township No. 10, in Clay county,... Read More
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Kellogg's Nursery Rhymes Cut and Constructed from a Premium
Battle Creek, Mich.: Kellogg Company , 1928. This fabric book is a part of a series called the Nursery Rhymes or Fairyland Doll Series. There were four dolls in the series: Tom, the Pipers Son, Little Bo Peep, Mary and her Little Lamb and Little Red Riding Hood. Each uncut fabric sheet came with a 12" to 15" cloth... Read More
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Victorian Die-Cuts with Children on Swings
1890. Overall condition is good.. Two nice die cuts with simple tree and foliage backgrounds of Victorian children. One has two girls that are using a tree swing and the other a boy and girl on a porch swing. They get slightly wider toward the bottom, with perforated lines along the sides of the die-cuts that would allow... Read More
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1932 Illustrated Catalog from the Mennonite Publishing House With Blank Order Form and Envelope
Scottdale, PA: Mennonite Publishing House, 1932. Light edgewear on the front cover. 120pp. Yellow paper wrapper. Small illustration of an alter with a bible on top on the front cover, black and white photograph of the Mennonite Publishing House on the back accompanied by a list of services they provide and their address. Catalog includes anything a Mennonite... Read More
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Die-Cut "Austen's Forest Flower Cologne" Business Trade Sign or Show Card
Oswego, New York: W.J. Austen & Co, 1878. Overall condition is good. This non-embossed card is advertising the Forest Flower cologne made by W.J. Austen and Co. The die-cut features a girl and a boy, each holding a based of flowers, standing around a large rendition of the perfume bottle. Meant to convey that it has captured the... Read More
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Mournful Seashell 16mo Lace Paper Valentine
England, 1860. Very good. Minor spotting.. A melancholy 16mo valentine, questioning a lover's intentions: "You scarce afforded one kind parting word, But went away so cold, the kiss you gave me Seemed the forced compliment of sated love". Printed the middle of a finely produced lace paper with depictions of sea shells in each of the corners. The... Read More
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Commonplace Book, Pocket Diary of August Maria Ward Bissell
New York, 1868. Minor damage to covers. Minor soiling on interior pages due to age.. A wonderful commonplace book of Augusta Maria Ward Bissell, who lived in Warwick, MA. This commonplace book is a small pocket diary for the year 1868. While each entry is short, normally consisting of a few brief sentences, the details Augusta Ward chooses... Read More
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La Belle au Bois Dormant et le Prince Charmant (Sleeping Beauty and Prince Charming) Paper Dolls
France: Unknown, 1890. Lacking Original Box. 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 couch. They each have three (3)... Read More
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A collection of mixed media anthropomorphic tongue-in-cheek animal paper dolls with additional costumes created by Otis Kidwell Burger, Fantasy and Science Fiction Writer, c1970.
The animals are constructed of heavy card stock and the costumes of paper. The largest is the Great Blue Whale at 6” long. Animals include • Mr. Toad: Lunch on the Run • Great Blue Whale and it’s costume titled Pour Le Sport • Mr. Penguin without costume • A pincer with a Bulldog Mask • Mole: sand-hog gear • Two (2) terrapin costumes... Read More
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[Quake Medicine] Father Arent's Rheumatism Porous Plaster- In English & German
Buffalo, 1900. Very Good. A single-fold pamphlet presented by Father Arent's Plaster Co., Buffalo NY. Front cover with image from photo of Father Arent promoting his Rheumatism Porous Plaster. The inside pages include the identical message and imagery; one is in German, the other in English. A portion of the text reads that in the Last Will of... Read More
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Confederate Ball, Annual Pageant of the Natchez Garden Club Program - Step into the Past with Natchez
Natchez, Mississippi: Natchez Garden Club, 1936. Vertical crease. Penciled notes back cover.. Single-fold program for the Confederate Ball, a pageant put on by the Natchez Garden Club in Natchez, Mississippi. Since 1932 the garden club has done a fall and spring pilgrimage, where owners of historic homes in the area open their homes for guided tours. Accompanying this... Read More
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Providence Restaurant 1953 - A Women's Educational and Industrial Union Project
A single-fold 8 1/4" x 5 1/4" paper menu with printed outside cover and mimeographed bill of fare within. Well-rounded fare with prices ranging from 25 cents for a lettuce sandwich to $2.25 for Broiled Rump Steak. The significance of this menu is spelled out on the back cover "To help finance its social and educational work, the Women's... Read More
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Handbill - Mexican Fiber Pocket Brush - A must have for every Traveler
A 6" x 8" hand bill depicting a full sized 4 1/4" pocket brush and hat brush; the pocket brush with softer bristles and the hat brush a bit firmer. Printed on pink paper, appears to be for the trade. Promotional information and prices by the dozen. Reverse is blank. T. F. Hovey & Co., Boston Ma. Intact separation;... Read More
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The International Tales of Mystery No.1 The Island of Lost Men: The Strange Happenings at Beaver Island
New York: International Magazine, 1920. This is a dime novel from the International Magazine, and it is the first in the series. It features Agent John Merrill from the Government Detective Service solving a mystery. This is only a portion of the story as it continues on it in International Tales of Mystery No. 2. In addition to the... Read More
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Cutwork Wreath "Isaac Bown Twigg
Ashover (Derbyshire?), 19th century. Very good. Minor toning, spotting.. A remarkably fine piece of paper cutwork, depicting a wreath with the name "Isaac Bown Twigg" in the center, and the town "Ashover" (Derbyshire village) below. Measures approx. 2" in diameter.
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Herbick & Held Type Specimen Book belonging to Violet Symons, Pittsburgh, Pa. c1950s
Pittsburgh: Herbick & Held Printing Co, 1950. Stamped leather cover with personalization of "Violet Symons" on bottom right corner. A large format top fold spiral book designed for page addition and subtraction. It includes a complete line of typographic stock for the company and is to be used by clients to judge appearance, compare fonts and assist n layouts.... Read More
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Envelope containing hair from A. Porrer, Artist in Hair & Jewellery "By Appointment of the Queen" Regent Street
A 5 1/2" x 3 1/2" envelope. The front is elaborately decorations and contains informatin on a. Porrer, Artist in Hair & Jewellery -- By appoinment to the Queen". Received prize and service medals at the Great Exhibition in 1851. A penned note on the reverse indicates this is the hair left of a Hair quaff change... Read More
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Two Tickets for Saint Andrews Society of Manchester Annual Dinner, Saturday November 30 1895
Manchester, UK: Cuthbertson & Black, 1895. Two tickets to Saint Andrews Society of Manchester Annual Dinner on Saturday November 30 1895. It was hosted at the Grand Hotel, on Aytoun Street in Manchester, England. Saint Andrews is the patron saint of Scotland, and traditionally this day is celebrated with traditional Scottish food, music and dance. In Scotland, Saint Andrews... Read More
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Penityrol Synergie Antibiotique, Patent Medicine Advertising Postcard
Paris, France, Dec-53. An advertising postcard for a patent medicine called Penityrol. It was a synthetic antibiotics created to help combat diseases that are transmitted through the air or to help minimize the possibility of an infection after a surgery. What makes this advertisement extremely charming are the anthropomorphic lab rats featured on the the front of the postcard.... Read More
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Two Near Identical Handmade Watercolor Paper Dolls - One made in 1856, the other 1905
A 6 1/2" handmade paper dolls with fine brown ringlets dressed in pantaloons and a slip (pencil drawn) and brown watercolor shoes. Her top fold costumes are pink and rose dress with a white pinafore. One with faint polka-dots; the other plain - each with different ruffle at base of pinafore. Accompanied by a Rose trimmed bonnet with a... Read More
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