Category: Dance Cards

Automobilisten Pic-Nic Continental. März 1903 Automobilisten-Pick-Nick. Hotel Continental

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Wien, Buchwald : 1903

Seller ID: 006200

Binding: Vellum

Condition: Very Good

9 by 5 cm. Silk moire endpaper on rear. Folded card sheet pasted onto front inside cover. This would appear to have been a short dance, as there were only four dances listed, with an intermission between the third and fourth dance. Dance was held at the Hotel Continental. We render the title twice as the spelling of Pic-Nic is given differently inside and out. With the original slender pencil, with an ivory or bone top piece, and strap. Condition: moderate wear to the vellum. Age toning to the card.
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Dance Card as Small Leather Folder

Price: $50.00

Publisher: : 1896

Seller ID: 006202

Binding: Full Leather

9 by 6 cm. Small leather insignia, possibly initials, in corner of front cover. Four pockets inside, one with card inside which has pencilled in names of dances. This also has pencilled in date. Green calf outside and in, with gold silk backing inside. Also gold twine with a ring attached.
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Elaborate Dance Card Sample from the "Fancy Order of Dance", Brooklyn, New York, circa 1880

Price: $225.00

Seller ID: 004897

Binding: NA

Condition: Fine

Highly unusual layered sample card, with elaborate "Dresden"-style decoration on the front, featuring a butterfly, lace faux flowers, wax leaves, several blue beetle figures, ribbons and a wax hand, all atop gilt lace. The card itself is standard size, nearly 12 by 8.5 cm, and it opens to a blank page on the recto where information about a particular dance, its sponsors and sequences would be furnished, and on the facing verso we are given the name of the business, Fancy Order of Dance, and its Brooklyn address, and nothing more. This all comes in a plain box, which being in an excel...
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Studenten-Ball. 4. Februar 1896

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Wien, : 1896

Seller ID: 006204

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

A relief impression of the main building of the University of Vienna serves as the centerpiece on the front cover of this dance card. Oblong, 7.5 by 11.5 cm. Unpaginated, 46 leaves, with print only on rectos other than first leaf, when also on verso. Following the obligatory listing of dances, the pages have short poems, apercus and/or maxims possibly suggested by the faculty member whose name is given on the top of these pages. This student ball appears to have included students from different schools within the university. With the original thin pencil which serves to seal the booklet ...
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Wählerliste des Wähler-Vereines im ersten Bezirke

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Wien, : January, 1903

Seller ID: 006201

Binding: Vellum

Condition: Very Good

63 by 48 mm. 12 pp. First two with photos of we assume local politicians -- ward heads, we would surmise the American equivalent. Then six pages with four dances listed per page. Paper pastedown on boards. Silk fabric spine. Twined cords with tassels, and a brass pin attached to a separate cord. The brass piece shows a Renaissance era guard or sentry holding a banner. With original slender pencil which as typical, holds the booklet closed.
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[Dance Card] Bürgerball des VIII Gemeinde-Bezirkes Josefstadt. Sale Zum Grunen Thor, 11 Februar 1885.

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Wien (Vienna), Aug. Klein : 1885

Seller ID: 005076

Condition: Near Fine

A most unusual dance card from the capital of the waltz during its heyday! On the front is mounted a miniature leaf a day calendar, this calendar bound with a colored pattern satin. The calendar begins on February 11, the day of the particular ball, and continues until the end of the year. This calendar is mounted onto a stiff leather card base, through which a string with the requisite tassel and brass hook are attached. On the other side of the leather piece is the dance card proper, held closed by a thin pencil, and with a cover of silk. One opens the dance card to find a title page, f...
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[Dance Card] Party Hat Shaped Dance Card

Price: $1,250.00

Seller ID: 004165

Exquisite, highly unusual novelty dance card. 9.5 cm tall, 3.5 cm diameter at base. You pull a thin string at base to draw out the list of 18 dances for the evening, divided into two parts. On the side of the hat is the monogram "ZS", the two letters interlocked.
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[Dance Card] Concordia-Ball, 10. Februar 1930. [Containing within slipcase the book] Wiener Spazierreime aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart

By: Bauer, Julius. Illustrator: Alfred Gerstenbrand

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Wien, : 1930

Seller ID: 006173

Binding: Cloth slipcase. Paper pastedown on boards for bo

Condition: Near Fine

12mo. 17.5 by 11.5 cm. 240 pp. Full of light verse and illustrated with cartoons that have a distinctly mid-20th century sensibility and style. Condition: slipcase with light wear. Gold threads holding the dance card proper now somewhat frayed, with break, and the dance card booklet missing. The book itself is in fine shape. Also with inscribed card relating to the dance. Card decorated with musical staffs.
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XI. Margarethener Costüm-Kränzchen der Vereinigsten Christen im Bez. (Luegerkränzchen)

By: Hillibrand, Karl and Franz Mauer

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Margareten, Wien, Hermann Scheibe : January 31, 1903

Seller ID: 006185

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Very Good

A dance card organized by the political leadership of Margareten, which is the neighborhood in Vienna not far from the old city. Oblong, 9 by 14 cm. 27 leaves. Photos of leaders, and of old buildings in the neighborhood. Unusual chamois (we think) binding, with gilt stamped lettering and Art Nouveau floral decoration. With original slender pencil, with ivory or bone top piece, used also to clasp the booklet, as typical. RIbbons attached. No longer with a clasp or hook at end of ribbon. Condition: light sunning to cover.
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Category: Dance Cards