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Antique Lot of 3 Victorian Calling Cards.  These are the hidden name cards featuring die cuts. Includes pink  and red roses, hands, and a gold horn.  Cards shown at the center and bottom open like an envelope.

Antique Lot of 3 Victorian Calling Cards.  These are the hidden name cards featuring die cuts. Includes pink  red roses, hands, and a boys face.  

Antique Lot of 4 Victorian Die Cut Scraps featuring ducks and geese.  Scraps are die cut and embossed.

Antique Lot of 5 Hidden Name Victorian Calling Cards.  Cards feature pink roses, hands and doves. Top card opens like an envelope and has a blank card inside.  Lower 4 cards are all die cut and embossed.

• Elfrieda Bartels
• Melinda M. Riggert
• Paul A. Riggert
• Sophie Klaus

Original 1880s Victorian lithograph print showing two young girls sitting in a chair and reading a book. Younger girl is holding a doll. An open photo album is on the floor.

Measures 5.25 inches x 7.5 inches.

Condition is good with a crease running horizontally near the bottom and edge and corner wear, including a little paper loss at the lower right corner.

Please view photos for more details on condition.

Nice vivid colors!

Vintage Original Antique 1880s Paper Framed Victorian Lithograph print showing a ship at the center, with a horseshoe and rose border. Found loose in an old Victorian Scrapbook.

Print is glued to the white paper frame. Measures about 7 inches x 9.5 inches including frame. Image area measures about 5.5 inches wide x 7.5 inches tall.

Pencil inscription on back reads: Anna Vongdol by Phebe Davis, 1888.

Condition is very good with lovely vivid colors!

Beautiful original large antique cards given as a Reward of Merit.  This listing is for a set of two.  Both feature a large red Rose and Lily of the Valley bouquet. Top card has a red border, bottom card has a blue border.

Both cards measure 7.5 inches wide x 5.5 inches tall.  Both were presented to Anna Vongdol.  One is dated 1886, the other 1887.  Top card has a small number 400 in the lower left corner, bottom card is numbered 403.

Condition is very good with top card having a crease upper left corner and a soiled area near the upper right corner.  Bottom card has a very tiny crease at the upper left corner. 

Beautiful old cards!

Antique 1900s Christmas Card Die Cut Embossed Greeting Card. Features a river scene with a bridge. Daisies and blue and white die cut border.

Card measures about 2.75 inches wide x 5.5 inches tall. Condition is excellent. Card is used with ink inscription on back. Looks more like a Reward of Merit card, but was given by a teacher as a Christmas card.

Published by Gibson Art Co. Printed in Germany.

This is the original card. Would be great for altered art projects, scrapbooking, collages or as a bookmark.

Original antique advertising bookmark for Merrick's Spool Cotton.  Features a little Victorian girl in a pink dress, reaching up toward a dangling spool of thread.

Front reads: Merrick's Spool Cotton, Book Mark.

Back reads: Merrick's Anti-Monopoly, Anti-Trust, Anti-Combination. Spool Cotton.

Merrick's Spool Cotton is six cord, soft finish, and is made from the finest quality of combed Sea Island Cotton, and, on account of its superior strength, eveness, and smoothness, surpasses all others for hand and machine sewing.  Try one spool and be convinced of its excellence.

Dates to circa 1890s.

Measures just under 2 inches wide x 6 inches wide.

Condition is good with a crease running diagonally through the lower left corner.

Adorable image!

Antique H.C. White Perfecscope Copper Flash Stereoscope Viewer and 50 Keystone Stereoscope View Cards in Box.

Stereoscope does show wear and the handle stands on its own, but must be supported with a finger behind when using to view.   I'm not sure if this is how it came, or if a piece is broken that supported the handle. Both lens are present and in very good condition.

Viewer measures about 13 inches front to back, viewing end 5 1/4 inches wide, and piece that holds the stereoview card measures about 7 1/4 inches wide.

Cards all came in the black box marked "Keystone Stereographs" Title: Butterflies. There are only a couple of Butterflies in the mix. The rest are an assortment of views. All are pictured in the photos below.  All are in excellent condition.

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Original antique lithograph 1880s Victorian. Shows two young girls in a fancy parlor.  One girl is reading a book while the younger girl is teasing her with a stick.

Title at the bottom reads: Cute

Measures 5.25" x 7.5".

Condition is very good with some wear to edges corners.

Nice vivid colors. 

Would be adorable framed!

Vintage Lot of 4 religious prayer cards.  These are all original cards. Three are black and white and one is colored.

Antique Victorian booklet Mercy's Gift.  The Quality of Mercy by William Shakespeare.  Embossed Christmas themed cover featuring a farm scene surrounded by Holly and Berries.

Booklet measures 3 1/8 inches wide x 4 1/4 inches tall.  Eight pages front and back.

Includes four color illustrations.  Booklet is bound with a string tie at the spine.

Condition is good with some soiling and wear to the cover.  Interior pages are good with some light soiling.

Antique Victorian Christmas Greetings poem booklet.  Published by The Art Lithographic Publishing Co. number 56426.  Printed in Germany.

Booklet measures 2 7/8 inches wide x 4 inches tall.  Eight pages front and back, including covers.

Four color illustrations including: Birds on a tree branch; winter house snow scene; holly and berries; mother waiting by open back door for boy and his dog.

Booklet is bound with a string tie at the spine.  Cover is loose from the inside pages. 

Condition is good with some soiling and wear to the covers.  Interior pages are good with some light soiling. 

Antique Victorian Easter booklet Sweet Radiant Morn.  Embossed cover featuring a large cracked egs, surrounded by pink and white blossoms, with gold rays radiating out.

Booklet measures about 3 1/2 inches wide x 5 1/2 inches tall.  Eight pages front and back, not including covers.

Includes four color illustrations: Purple violets, purple violets and green ribbon, little girl with dog, and little boy with dog.

Booklet is bound with a string tie at the spine.

Condition is very good with pencil names written inside front cover.  Interior pages are excellent.

Original antique 1880s Victorian Lithograph print showing a young girl gathering flowers. Girl is dressed in a red and white dress, with a red bow in her hair.

Print measures 5.5 inches wide x 7.5 inches tall.

Condition is very good with some glue residue on the back.

Gorgeous vibrant colors!

Antique Victorian poetry booklet. Flowers of Love for Thee.  Embossed cover features a bird carrying an envelope, Violet clusters, and a tranquil water scene.

Booklet measures about 5 1/4 inches wide x 7 5/8 inches tall with 24 pages.

Published by The Hayes Lithographing Co. of Buffalo New York. Copyright 1910.

Booklet is bound with a tied string.

Condition is good with a soiled area in the upper right corner of the front cover.  Interior pages are very good, but also have some with some light soiling and age toning.

Antique Victorian religious poetry booklet. Words of Trust by Reverend Peter Stryker, D.D.  Cover features a hand fan with a tranquil house scene.

Booklet measures about 4 1/4 inches wide x 5 1/2 inches tall.  With five single sided pages.  No illustration.

Booklet has two holes through the cover and all pages that at one time were bound with a string or ribbon.  It is no longer bound.  All interior pages are loose from the cover.  Cover front and back is one single piece.

Condition is good with some soiling and wear to the cover.  Interior pages are good with some light soiling and age toning.

Large antique Reward of Merit card showing a farm scene, stream and flowers. Published by the Gibson Art Co.

Card measures 5 inches tall by 6.75 inches wide. Condition is good with small crease upper left corner and small area of glue residue on the back. Some light soiling and wear.

Written on back: 10 Headmarks From Lillie Dvoracek to Victor Fictum

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Antique Victorian Valentine Card. Features a die-cut pair of ladies hands, pink rose, and blue twining flowers. Brown card stock weight paper that folds open to reveal verse.

Front reads: St. Valentine's Greeting

Inside reads: Reminding you of all my love, I send to you this valentine; My greatest happiness 'twill prove, To know that all your love is mine.

Card measures 2.75 inches tall x 4 inches wide when closed.

Condition is excellent with pencil inscription on back.