Victorian Era card. Circa 1870s – 1890s Price: $3.00 Size: 3 and 15/16 x 2 and 3/8″ A trade-type card that never got stamped with owner info. Very beautiful design – a sturdy-looking little boy or elf-type guy. What’s he…Read More…
Category: Miscellaneous Cards and Other
Eva Blasdale’s Party, April 3rd 1901
Hand-drawn party place card. April 3, 1901. Price: $12.00 Size: About 3 and 1/4 x 2 and 1/4″ Here’s a wonderful hand-drawn, hand-colored place card made for one of Eva Blasdale’s party guests, Russell Doughty. It shows an elf holding…Read More…
L. Prang & Co. Christmas Card
“May Christmas fill thy heart with gladness!” For anyone tired of the cold and snow, here’s a beautiful bouquet of pink roses and a summery nature scene on an artist’s palette. The little moon-shaped tableau shows a woman in the…Read More…
A Saucer Of Milk
Here’s a lithograph from an unknown company of a little lady, perhaps the domestic help, giving the family kitty cat a saucer of milk. I love the expectant pose of the kitty; the lady’s ensemble with mob cap and flounced…Read More…
Fae’s Keepsake
Here’s an Art Nouveau heart-shaped bit of ephemera. The back just has one word, “Fae” written in pencil. It shows a country path veering off to the right of a cottage in the distance. It is no surprise that the…Read More…
Custom Of Japan
We like to do mini-themes here or try to segue from one topic or place to another, so here is a vintage tourist postcard set cover from the Fukada Card Company. It’s not in good shape but I just picked…Read More…
Sailboats And Roses
Here’s a gorgeous antique card, from around maybe the 1880s – 1890s, of a scene showing several sailboats; the one in the foreground shows the oars in operation. Semi-surrounding this tableau is an arrangement of roses in a horseshoe shape: …Read More…
Horse-Drawn Fire Engine
On the back of this card was written very lightly in pencil “Fire. ca. 1880” but this was likely done by a prior seller, rather than the original owner of the card. This would be some type of print, a…Read More…