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A Mechanical Advertising Card for Shell Gasoline
N.d., circa 1940s. You open a side flap and the policeman's head and neck to the right stretch out. On the inside of the moving panel is written: "Wow! That must have been Shell." The point of the message is unclear; regardless, the mechanical aspect is fun, and surely it must have charmed kids loaded up in the backseat of a car.
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95.00 USD
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Album of Chinese Paper Cut-outs
Silk pasted onto boards, bound together with strin Fine
N.d., circa early to mid-twentieth century. 20 pp., with a paper cut-out on every page. On the recto is a cut-out with color fabric intricately cut to fill in the gaps and enliven the images of people. On the verso is the more classic silhouette or shadow image cut-out of buildings, trees, small human figures and animals. The images are diminuitive in size, only filling a small corner of the oblong pages, which measure 10.5 by 7 inches, or 27 by 18 cm, other than the first page in which two birds flank a pretty abstract centerpiece. The art, of course, is in part the miniaturization, which requires lapidary skill, and we revel in the beauty and cogency of the imagery reduced to so small a scale. The album also is really more than the sum of its parts and exercises a cumulative effect on its admirer. Clean throughout.
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325.00 USD
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Album of Origami and Chromolithographic Imagery, Angel on Cover
Wraps Very Good
N.d., circa 1880s. 16 pages, plus cover, with the artful combination of origami paper folding and chromolithographic die cuts to create pages of artfully arranged imagery, or combining the two media into a single pictorial image. While such albums were not that at all uncommon, this one is done with singular neatness and what would seem an intuitive aesthetic sense that results in ineffably delightful juxtapositions. A good amount of the paper work involves a weaving of two different colors of paper, and this can lend an abstract element to the picture created as well. Some of the imagery is religious in nature, with the first page featuring a three dimensional, or pop-up card, depicting an altar. Other than children, imagery includes clowns, cats, a butterfly, and fish and one photograph of a girl. The book is 8 by 6.5 inches in its dimensions. Inscribed on the front wrap is the name "Maria de Vos".
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195.00 USD
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Album of Origami and Chromolithographic Imagery, Roses on Cover
Wraps Very Good
N.d., circa 1880s. 16 pages, plus cover, with the artful combination of origami paper folding and chromolithographic die cuts to create pages of artfully arranged imagery, or combining the two media into a single pictorial image. While such albums were not that at all uncommon, this one is done with singular neatness and what would seem an intuitive aesthetic sense that results in ineffably delightful juxtapositions. A good amount of the paper work involves a weaving of two different colors of paper, and this can lend an abstract element to the picture created as well. Some of the imagery is religious in nature, with a crucifx at the center of the first page, but most is quite secular and pretty, with many children populating the imagery. Images include one of Bismarck, a Japanese girl or young woman in a kimono. eighteenth century clad children, a martini glass, and one photograph of a girl. The book is 8 by 6.5 inches in its dimensions.
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195.00 USD
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Album of Red Chinese Paper Cut-outs
Silk pasted onto boards, bound together with strin Fine
N.d., circa early twentieth century. 20 pp., with classic red paper cut-out on every page, almost all very intricate and capturing a picturesque aspect of Chinese life or imagery. The imagery never occupies more than half of the page, which measures 10 by 6.5 inches, 26 by 16 cm, but it is in the miniaturization that lies much of the art, and we can but marvel at the lapidary skill of the craftsman or artist responsible for the silhouettes created.
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450.00 USD
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Allen & Ginter [Game Birds]
Philadelphia George S. Harris & Sons First Edition Wraps, with string ties Very Good
N.d., circa 1890. Oblong, 6 by 9 inches, 15 by 22 cm. 11 leaves, plus wraps, replicating 50 cigarette cards issued as part of the Allen & Ginter cigarette card series. (There is an odd pagination starting at 3 and running to 13. Printing is only on the rectos except for rear wraps.) The cards are arranged artfully with a backdrop of a colorful illsutration of hunters, birds in their natural habitat or servants (black and white) preparing or serving game. The printing, both of the cards depicted and the illustrations upon which they are arranged, is a brilliant chromolithography. Small corner chips to front and rear wraps. Occasional light marginal soiling within.
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295.00 USD
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Athlophoros For rheumatism and Neuralgia
New York Athlophoros Company. Printed by Major, Knapp & Co. 1885 Wraps Very Good
12mo. brochure, with 16 pp. Chromolithograph of jolly man dancing with oversized bottle on front, , and chromo images of old lady, child and angel on back. Silhouette imagery within to illustrate the tall claims of the company producing this cure. Inside rear wrap is an ad vor Itduzit, a cure for piles. Also testimonials within for the credulous. Charming piece of medical, or quack, advertising ephemera. Some wear. Minor marginal staining.
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75.00 USD
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Bridge Tally with Black Jazz Musicians
New York and Kansas City Hall Brothers, Inc. Fine
N.d., circa late 1920s or 1930s. Fabulous Art Deco jazzy design from the time the new game of contract bridge, invented by Harold Vanderbilt on his yacht, was sweeping the nation. The score sheet pad looks unused.
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100.00 USD
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Card-Houses
Box Very Good
N.d., circa late 1800s. With 96 pictorial (chromolithographic) cards, and 38 blank cards. An folded instruction sheet as well as instructions pasted onto the underside of the box lid. Pictorial cards are interlocking so that they can be arranged to build various structures, and hence the name of the game, "Card-Houses". The game is in essence a precursor of Lego blocks. Of equal interest is the bright chromolithographic imagery of cats, children, roosters, other animals. The cards are each 4 by 2.5 inches, and they are clean and appropriately stiff. The box housing the cards has had loss to the paper that is pasted onto the boards and there is obvious repair to the sides which had at one point become detached but the box is presently completely functional and it is a small miracle that it has survived at all. The instruction sheet is now backed by a piece of linen paper -- one can see the closed tears that inevitably occurred at the folds of the otherwise brittle sheet.
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475.00 USD
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Collection of a Dozen Postcards Featuring Original Watercolors and Ink and Pencil Drawings
1903-1907 Very Good
An extraordinary group of original artwork from the early twentieth century, with short text written on a few of the cards. The artwork was all done by a B. Vinya and sent to a D. Enrique Montagut in Alicante, which is on the Mediterranean Coast of Spain. Subjects of the watercolors include an elderly guitarist, a young family looking off to the sea's horizon where there is the fishing craft of the father and husband, a picturesque old mill, two country landscapes, several sailing vessels, a European woman dressed like a Geisha, lovers on coastal rocks and a woman with a fan with a Venetian backdrop. The three ink or pencil drawings are stylistically quite varied, with elements of Daumier in one, more contemporary caricature in another, and yet the third a good-hearted depiction of carousing monks. Each of the pictures is of a quality worthy of framing, and cumulatively they make for an uncommon and pleasing oeuvre.
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670.00 USD
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Collection of Seventeen Nineteenth Century Indian Costume Watercolors
Very Good
N.d, circa mid to late nineteenth century. These were watercolor illustrations of Indian characters in characteristic costume. The watercolors were produced for the English market as essentially souvenirs. Perhaps things that an English colonist might take back home at the end of his tour of duty, perhaps something that might be send to relatives back home, or perhaps even hung on the walls of his Indian bungalow. The drawings are on the naive side in their styling, and this is part of the charm. They are quite colorful and in detached form an excellent complement to the color plate costume books of the era. The paper is not a standard size, but they are all around 8 by 6 inches. There is some soiling to the off-white paper and a few minor chips or closed tears. They are all nonetheless fit for framing and very attractive. Now protected in heavy mylar sleeves.
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800.00 USD
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Copper Engraving Printing Plate of a Horse
N.d., circa 1900. The plate, which is 4 by 3.5 inches, is essentially a negative of the image. The thoroughbred is standing still with a few palm trees in the background, suggestive of a Florida racetrack such as Hialeah. A lovely printing souvenir!
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150.00 USD
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Copy Notebook of Religious Verse from the Mid-Nineteenth Century
N.d., mid-19th century. The notebook has a handsome yellow, green and brown/red marbling on its covers. The 64 pages with, very lightly lined, contain religious and spiritual verse written in a neat, fluid cursive. Many of the poems are credited to the likes of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Are the uncredited poems those of the copyist? Whatever the case, a handsome copy book from the era.
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60.00 USD
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Cunningham & Reynolds Metamorphic Book
Cincinnati, OH Jos. Wachtel, printer
A very colorful and delightful metamorphic book, with 18 flap panels (six pages if closed, which can be superimposed on the inside back and front covers, to create hundreds of different characters and dress, all very amusing. N.d., circa late nineteenth century (1880s in all probability). The book was issued by Cunningham & Reynolds of Chattanooga, Tennessee, which was in the business of selling boilers, engines, saws, corn mills -- heavy duty hardware and farm equipment, in other words -- and this was surely a promotional freebie. The book itself is bound with stitching, which appears original. The covers are soiled heavily, and there is some abrasion loss on the rear cover. There is a slight bend to the covers and leaves. The flaps within are not 100 percent tight, but they are complete, and it is easy to enjoy the changing of images as much as ever. A scarce piece of Americana and also a scarce metamorphic or toy books.
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350.00 USD
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Deck of Miniature Playing Cards, Uncut
Fine
N.d., circa 1900. The cards are very much in the style, pictorially, of a Piatnik deck, with lush color and ornate, literal detail, except these are truly miniature cards, with each card measuring 2 by 1.4 cm, and they are uncut! Truly a rarity as well as a novelty.
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200.00 USD
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