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Kindergarten Gems For the Little Tots (#4244)
10x13 box with intructions printed under lid; contains 3 color litho plates labeled A-1 through A-3, one “Toy Knitter” with needle, 5 worsteds, 6 large perforated cards (1 sewn) and 6 small sewing cards (4 sewn). Box with a variety of repairs from electrical tape...
Il biliardo e il giuoco alle bocce.
Con 80 incisioni. Terza edizione riveduta. Manuali Hoepli. Third edition, revised. Printed wraps, 16mo; 197, (3), 53, (11)pp. Publisher's 1918 catalog at rear. Good with shallow loss at the spine ends and chipping/creasing around the yapp edges; sunning especially to spine where the print is...
Thimble the Fingers
Two-part cylindrical box, 4.5-inch diameter, 1.25" tall, with color lithograph lid graphic and box insert with two wooden numbs and two small thimbles. A novelty dexterity game requiring players to manipulate the box and mount the thimbles on the nubs, creating the effect of two...
Specimens of Melvina Townsend’s work in the Kindergarten School, 1893 & 1894, 5 & 6 years of age…
Manuscript caption title: “Specimens of Melvina Townsend’s work in the Kindergarten School, 1893 & 1894. 5 and 6 years of age…Miss Julia Taylor, Teacher.” In a typical period scrap book album, 12.5 x 10 inches, with decorative embossed covers and 30 album leaves. Very Good...
Japanese Silk Dye Specimens, Catalog of 60 Swatches
Cloth hardcover, 9 x 5.5 inches. 6 panels with 5 100-momme silk swatches inlaid on each side, 60 examples in total. No date, but binding appears ca. 1940s. A catalog of colors and indications for dyeing 100 momme silk with pigments derived from ginseng and...
H. C. Bohack Co., Inc. Diary, Household Helps 1930 (cover title)
Pale teal cloth squat 8vo, 287pp. Near Fine with minor sunning and shelfwear, contents lightly age toned. Rear cover with image of the Bohack warehouse, contents profusely illustrated with photographs and advertisements. Unused diary for 1930, two days per page, bookended with approx. 100 pages...
A Gift for Mourners...
Dissuasives from immoderate sorrow; its pleas refuted; and its remedy. (No. 59. To Mourners)Green printed wraps 12mo, 36pp + wraps paginated (1)-4; "40 pages" printed on rear cover. Printer D. Fanshaw was active at ATS until 1846. Good only with wraps stained and split along...
Quilted cigar silks
Quilted cigar silks fashioned in Virginia during the first half of the twentieth century, 17 x 17.5 inches. With muslin backing, decorative hand embroidery over the seams and upholstery trim. Near Fine with minor rubbing/fraying. Brands include Saboroso, Londres, General Worth, Virginia Gentlemen, Renown, Eisenlohr's...
Mise-en-carte woven tulip pattern gouache maquette, France, 1910
Large hand-painted tulip motif "check" or "point paper" pattern for Jacquard woven tapestry, 21 x 25 inches. Wonderfully textured with some variations in toning from age. Dated 1910, France. In Good condition with a large tape repair and manuscript writing on the verso. Several small...
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Ten Commandment Number Cards [numbers 1 & 2]
"The only successful way to teach the Commandments with their numbers. Cut out the figure or sew the outline." 5.5 x 3.75 inches. Perforated and sewn with red and pink thread worn away at the lower right, else VG with light toning. Particularly nice with...