My Mama wants to tell you something" - Booklet Advertising Patent Medicine for Women
Buffalo, New York: Dr. J.H. Dye Medical Institute, 1900. Very good. Toned.. A slightly later edition of a booklet advertising Dr. J.H. Dye's Mitchella Compound, a patent medicine that claims to cure diseases specific to women and promote painless childbirth. Marketed towards women, it begins with the ten-page "Story of Mrs. Dare", which is soaked in sentiment and... Read More
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Coal News" -- Faux Newspaper Advertising
Toledo, Ohio: Solon Coal Co, 1905. Very good. Toning, short tears, horizontal letter fold.. Printed advertisement for The Solon Coal Co., mimicking the format and style of a newspaper. Includes columns praising the product, jokes and amusing poems, and even a coal-themed weather report: "Rain, or shine, snow or hail, Our coal will get there without fail." Features... Read More
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1840s Register of Student Attendance -- Skilled Penmanship, Creative Data Organization
New London, Connecticut: Bolles & Williams, 1848. Fair. Dust soiling, water staining, wear and chipping to wrappers, large tear to foot of spine.. A meticulously kept manuscript register of student attendance, written in skilled penmanship by an unidentified teacher between 1846 and 1848 ("W.A. Gallup"?). Includes a title page with stylized typography. The register is designed in a... Read More
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New Year's Greeting Card with Multiple Victorian Scrap Layers
England, 1870. Very good. Light dust soiling, some separation between layers at left-hand edge.. An attractive 12mo greeting card made from layered embossed Victorian card. The outermost layer features a lace paper-like border, and embossed chromolithographed flowers. Through the flowers is a window through which the viewer can see a layer of printed curtains, which part to reveal... Read More
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Costumes" -- Fashion Student Sketchbook with Original Artwork and Designs
United States, 1960. Very good. Light toning, dust soiling, a little wear to covers.. A sketchbook with original artwork kept by a fashion student in the 1960s, charting their journey through the history of fashion across the globe. The sketchbook contains three elements. The first element is a series of eighteen (18) pages with over ninety (90) illustrations... Read More
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Short Stories" -- Advertising Chamberlain Patent Medicines to American Families
Des Moines, Iowa: Chamberlain Medicine Co, 1905. Very good to near-fine. Minor dust soiling, creasing. In remarkably nice shape.. Two (2) printed booklets of short stories, published to advertise the Chamberlain Medicine Co. of Des Moines. "Take One Free". Nostrums, snake oil remedies, patent medicines and other dubious cure-all products were an important part of the fabric of... Read More
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Holiday Card Depicting Children Playing on Frozen Pond
England, 1880. Very good to near-fine. Light dust soiling.. A charming 16mo valentine depicting a group of Victorian children playing on a frozen pond, with the message "Compliments of the season". A red-breasted robin looks on from a tree branch. Features a decorative embossed border. Measures approx. 3.5" by 2.5
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16mo Christmas Card Depicting Boy Gathering Wildflowers
England, 1870. Very good. Light dust soiling.. An attractive 16mo Christmas card depicting a young blonde boy gathering wildflowers against a verdant background. The message at the bottom reads, "I Wish You A Happy Christmas". Includes a decorate embossed border. Measures approx. 3.5" by 2.5
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American Institute of Instruction Membership Card
United States: American Institute of Instruction, 1851. Good to very good. Dust soiling, a couple nicks.. Engraved membership card certifying that "Levi W. Leonard is a Member of the American Institute of Instruction" in 1851. It has been finished and signed in ink by the President and Secretary of the organization. The American Institute of Instruction was founded... Read More
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1911 Coronation Souvenir of King George V and Queen Mary
Leeds: T. Little, Printer, 1911. Good. Dust soiling, a couple short tears.. An attractive souvenir booklet produced for the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary, crowned in 1910 and 1911, respectively. Such booklets and trinkets would have been proudly sold to the public as a way of celebrating the start of the new king's reign. Inside... Read More
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The Improved Game of Star Authors
New York, New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1897. Fair. Dust soiling, short tears or splits/wear, damage to box aprons.. A complete set of Improved Game of Star Authors, including thirty-six (36) cards, a printed directions booklet, and the original chromolithographed illustrated box. Variations of this game were popular since the 1860s, and McLoughlin capitalized off its popularity by releasing... Read More
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Vandergrift Pennsylvania
Vandergrift, Pennsylvania: Vandergrift Chamber of Commerce, 1935. Very good to near-fine.. A promotional folding pamphlet for the planned city of Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, marketed as "the workingman's paradise". The town and developed to accommodate the local steel industry and an influx of workers and families. The plans were conceived by George Gibson McMurty, an immigrant who wanted to form... Read More
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Fashion's Newest For Spring and Summer 1903
San Jose, California: Stull & Sonniksen, 1903. Good to very good. Stain to final page, upper left-hand corner. Short tear to foot. A little soiling.. A printed advertisement for the latest fashions sold by Stull & Sonniksen, women's clothiers based in San Jose, California. Features the trendy "Gibson Girl" style line drawings of the time, with depictions of... Read More
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1895 Royal Hand-Bell Ringers American Tour Performance Ticket
[Kingston, New York]: Liscomb's Opera House, 1895. Very good. Toned with some dust soiling.. Printed ticket granting admission to a performance of the Royal Hand-Bell Ringers of London at Liscomb's Opera House in Kingston, New York, in October 1895. The group, directed by Duncan S. Miller, toured often and performed frequently for temperance societies. Using hand bells as... Read More
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Colorful C.A. Woolsey Paint & Color Co. Advert - Marine Paints and Marine Varnishes
Jersey City, New Jersey: C.A. Woolsey Paint & Color Co, 1900. Very good. light dust soiling.. A colorfully printed folding advertisement for C.A. Woolsey Paint & Color Company, including illustrations of their maritime paints (e.g. deck paint, exterior work, wood preservative varnish). Illustrated bifolium printed in black, yellow, red, and light blue (6.25" by 3.5").
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1898 S.S. Carolina Breakfast Menu
[Quebec]: Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company, 1898. Good. Toning, dust soiling, short tears on fold with modern tape repairs.. A printed menu for breakfast on the steamer S.S. Carolina in 1898, with designs of destinations and natural sights on the front by A.G. Racey (e.g. Montreal, Cliffs of Murray Bay). Inside, there is a wine list on the... Read More
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Mansfield Normal School Hallowe'en Masquerade Program
Mansfield, Pennsylvania: Mansfield State Normal School, 1910. Very good. Dust soiling/spotting. A couple nicks.. Printed program for a Halloween Masquerade held at Mansfield Normal School (in Mansfield, Pennsylvania, for girls. Outside is a colored and embossed anthropomorphized jack-o'-lantern hovering in a night sky above a witch on her broom and an owl. Inside is an order of events,... Read More
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Bell Ringers Carte de Visite Photograph
Bacup, England: R. Hammond, 1880. Good. Edge wear with some chipping, surface wear, light dust soiling.. A CDV-sized photograph mounted on green coated card with gold border, depicting a four-person "bell ringer" choir. The four men, sadly unidentified, stand proudly in a line with their bells on display. The different sizes of the bells create different pitches/notes for... Read More
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Valentine with Lace Paper, Silk, Embossed Scraps, Watercolor and Manuscript Poetry
England, 1860. Very good. Toned with light dust soiling.. A particularly lovely valentine, notable for the following elements, which were less common and more expensive at the time: a particularly finely meshed lace paper; inset silk; hand water color leaves; and silver embossed Victorian scraps. There is also a poem in ink manuscript that reads, "Thy heart beats... Read More
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A Shoe-Maker" -- Vinegar Valentine
England, 1850. Very good. Light staining/dust soiling.. A humorous vinegar valentine poking fun at cobblers and shoe makers. The image depicts a shoe maker at work with large features and a sign behind him reading "Snob & Co". The rhyme below reads, "Prithee, you little knock-knee'd soul, How dare you love profess, I've known you fully long enough,... Read More
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Attractive c.1885 Advertising Card with Chromolitho Rose Geranium Applique
Boston, Massachusetts: Maxwell & Covell, grocers, 1880. Very food. Slight surface wear to reverse.. Charming advertising card for Maxwell & Covell, grocers based on Pleasant Street in Boston, with an attractive chromolithographed applique on the reverse side with image of rose geraniums. Advertises a product presumably sold by the grocer, "Huyck Bros. Perfumers, Chicago". Edged in gold, and... Read More
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Showing Monotype Bell Series No. 402
Philadelphia, PA: Lanston Monotype Machine Company, 1940. Paper booklet,samples of typesettings. Examples of type settings by John Bell. Samples shown with explanations. 10" x 6 1/2" cover wearing, embossed stamps with Drexel Institute Library-Philadelphia.
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Saucy Faux Raffle Ticket -- Making Fun of Trendy Large Bustle Sizes
United States, 1875. Very good. Toned, a little dust soiled.. A saucy faux raffle ticket with an illustration of a woman with a massive bustle on the left. To the right, it reads, "RAFFLE For a Double-Jointed, Steam-Heating, Anti-Corrosive, Self-Acting, Non-Explosive, Back-Action CENTENNIAL BUSTLE. Warranted not to Rip, Ravel, or Run down at the Heel. For the Benefit... Read More
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Uncut Doll House Piano - Advertising Premium
New York, New York: George Steck & Co, 1890. Fine.. A charming uncut and unassembled paper doll house piano with instructions for assembly. Produced as a supplement, it advertises Steck Pianos by George Steck & Co. Chromolithographed card (9.5" by 5"), with ink stamp of Ball & Speich Pianos on verso.
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Intertype Futura
New York: Intertype Corporation, 1950. 52 pp. Orange illustrated paperback cover, examples of numerous types of fonts, some illustrations and examples of advertisements. 10 1/2" x 7 1/2" slight fading and discoloration on edges of cover.
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