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join us on Facebook & Twitter ! 1. [American Art] Original 1895 Pen & Ink Poster for Davis Gallery Exhibition of American Artists, Worcester Massachusetts. An attractive original pen & ink on posterboard, the design for a poster advertising an “Exhibition of Paintings - Best Work of American Artists - at the Davis Studio: Cor. Main & Park Streets”, which, according to the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, was held at Arthur E. Davis’s Davis Art Galleries / Davis Studio in Worcester, Massachusetts between May 20 and June 17, 1895. A very attractive Aesthetic Movement- inspired design with a stylized vase of flowers and ribbons. Poster Board. 8.75”x11.25”. Some light soil, some wear, corners with chipping. Pencil notes along the bottom, apparently directions for the printer. [43405] SOLD

2. [Art School] 1892 Prospectus for Rockford Illinois Art School Run by the Inventor of Air Brushes. A prospectus for the Illinois Art School, located in Rockford, which was run by the wife of the man who invented air brushes. Well, sort of. The very first air-brush-type appliance was patented in 1876 by the Stanley brothers, of Stanley Steamer fame, and was used for coating photographic plates. An air-compressor brush for artists was invented a few years later by Abner Peeler "for the painting of watercolors and other artistic purposes" and was constructed with parts from a jeweler's workshop. Liberty Walkup of Mt. Morris, Illinois then refined the design for practical assembly and patented it with a name invented by his wife Mimi- ‘air-brush’. Mimi then founded the Illinois Art School, located in the Air Brush company building,and taught general artistic subjects as well as air-brushing to students from around the world, including American Impressionist Wilson Irvine.

At Mimi’s school you could buy individual lessons for 50 cents, a week’s worth for $5, a month for $16, and 4 months for $50. That might seem a trifle steep, but the brochure assures prospective students that- “The demand for artists and teachers is due to a growing appreciation of Art productions, and demand is sure to intensify with the growth of population and the development of culture. It is certain that few fields of effort are more promising to success than the one now rapidly opening to those possessing professional skill as artists. Our students are occupying positions from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to South America. The work they have been able to do has caused the demand for more help of the same class, so much so that we have not been able to fill one-fourth the demand. One stenographer and many others in the same field of office work have laid down their pen and taken up art work as they learn of the lucrative positions offered for competent help in the studio”. So there- the starving artist thing is a 20th century phenomenon. Softcover. 4.5”x6”, 8 pages, 1 black & white illustration of the school building. Minor soil. [43403] SOLD 3. [Art at Wanamaker] 1901 Guide to Paintings at the Wanamaker Store, New York City. The great Wanamaker’s Department Store started in 1876 in an abandoned Pennsylvania Railroad station and was one of the earliest of the grand department stores in America. Over the decades Wanamaker’s was the source of many innovations in the retail field, and in 1881 John Wanamaker opened an Art Gallery in the Philadelphia store, a innovation which was later extended to the New York location. Wanamaker purchased French paintings at Paris salons for sale in the store’s gallery as well as for the store’s, and his own, permanent collections. 131 paintings are described here, including some recently purchased at several 1901 salons. Softcover. 4.25”x6.5”, 36 pages. Covers with light soil, some wear, chip and crease on the rear panel. [43404] $40 4. [Balloons] Early 1900s Sheet of C.C. Phelps Gas and Hot Air Balloons Stationary. A sheet of pictorial stationary for C.C. Phelps, daring aeronaut and manufacturer of balloons for likewise daring do-ers- “C.C. Phelps Manufacturer of Gas and Hot Air Balloons and Apparatus - Aerial Exhibitions Furnished for All Occasions by the Best and Most Daring Artists in the World. McConnellsville, N.Y.”. The sheet includes 2 illustrations of balloonists doing things that most sensible folks would not do. Single sheet. 8.5”x11”. Minor soil. [43421] $35 5. [Blinds] 1880s American Patent Blind Fastener Business Card. An attractive business card for P.K. O’Lally, “Patentee and manufacturer of the Automatic Patent American Blind Fastener and also the ‘Republic’ Blind Operator”. Mr. O’Lally lived in Boston, and was seeking agents for his life-altering invention. Card. 3.75”x2.25”. Minor soil. [43381] $28

6. [Books] A Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books, in Various Departments of Literature, Ancient and Modern, On Sale at Extremely Low Prices for Ready Money - John Miller, Trafalgar square - 1853. “Literature” meant, as it so often did at the time, anything between covers, and was mostly nonfiction. An interesting peek at the mid-19th century antiquarian and used book trade, in condition basically the same as if you were sitting down to read it in 1853. Softcover. 4”x6.5”, 32 pages. Sun shadow on the rear cover, light soil, otherwise fine and clean and spiffy. [43402] $35 7. [Bulbs] 1882 Ornamental Flowering Bulbs Label for Parker & Gannett. A handsome Aesthetic Movement label for flowering bulbs sold by Parker and Gannett, dated 1882, featuring a lily flower. Handsome. Parker & Gannett Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Store, was listed in the 1870s directories for Boston & Cambridge, Massachusetts. Label. 4.75”x7.25”. Minor soil. [43379] $60 8. [Celluloid] 1890s Celluloid Manufacturing Company Card Printed on Celluloid. Developed in the mid-19th century, celluloid came into its own as a manufacturing material in the 1870s, providing a useful substitute for ivory and horn. The Celluloid Manufacturing Company was founded by John Wesley Hyatt, one inventor of the product, who spent a certain amount of time embroiled in legal disputes with other inventors of the product. Baldwin & Gleason made a specialty of printing celluloid trade cards and other celluloid novelties, but a card for the Celluloid Company itself on celluloid is kinda neat. 4.75”x3”. A bit ‘rumpled’, minor wear, light soil. [43359] SOLD 9. [Ceramics] 1893 Villeroy & Boch World’s Columbian Exposition Card. A handsome oversized card for Villeroy & Boch, famous makers of fine pottery and porcelain, and beloved of stein collectors everywhere. 6.75”x4.5”. Minor soil, light wear. [43361] $175 10. [Chinoiserie] 1850s Belgian Professor & Instructor in Chinese Painting Card. A striking card for A. Dubin, of Gand, Belgium, “Professeur de Peinture Chinoise et autres arts d’agremens”. He also notes- “Donne des cours dans les couvents, pensionnats, & a domicile pour tous les genres de peintures, dorer sur etoffe, & du desin indelibile” (Courses given in convents, schools, & at home for all kinds of paintings, cloth decoration, & ink drawing). The card was printed in Bruges by Daveluy, the Royal lithographer. 5.5”x4”. Minor soil. Lightly mounted in thin blue paper. [43364] $275 11. [Church Ornaments] 1880s Paris Church Ornament Dealer Chromo Brochure. A lovely chromolithographed brochure issued by an ecclesiastical ornaments firm in paris. Meurire et Cie were located on 9 Place de Madeleine and dealt in crosses, hearts, natural flowers and artificial flowers of bead, porcelain and enamel, flower baskets, church ornaments in gold, silver, ivory, sculpture, communion & marriage gifts, garnitures, and more. Folder. 6”x3.75”. Minor soil. [43415] $85 12. [Corset] 1870s Adjustable Duplex Corset Folding Trade Card. An attractive 1870s folding trade card for the Adjustable Duplex Corset made by the Bortree Manufacturing Company - “The best corset in the world. Perfect in shape, and the most comfortable and durable corset known”. The card shows two young women peeping through a keyhole, with a flap that shares- “The secret out at last - why Mrs. Brown has such a perfect figure”. Folding back the flap reveals the answer, and also Mrs. Brown, in her bedroom, before the mirror, in her undies and Adjustable Duplex Corset. Not as racy as it sounds, except by Victorian standards. Card. 3.25”x5.25” (folded), 4.75”x5.25” (unfolded). Minor soil. [43420] $45 13. [Corset] 1880s Corset & Skirt Supporter Chromolithographed Handbill. A handsome handbill for “Queen Bess Corset and Skirt Supporter”, which was “By far the best corset and skirt supporter ever made and is warranted in every particular, manufactured only by the Worcester Corset Co., Worcester, Mass.”. The back contains a long (long) message “To the Ladies!”, explaining at great length and in excruciating detail, in small type, why this particular corset & skirt supporter will make such a difference in their life, and why this corset & skirt supporter is different from all other corset & skirt supporters. Handbill. 4.5”x8.75”. Minor soil. [43383] $85 14. [Dials] 1890s Newman Clock Company Dial Pattern Sample. A curious item- a dial sample with quarters for First Day, First Night, Second Day and Second Night, and 2 sets of numbers. The Detex Clock (successors to Newman) website explains- “Detex has its origins in a predecessor company established in 1878 by Abraham A. Newman to manufacture and sell stationary watchclocks. Mr. Newman initially sold his watchclocks in the market from Boston to Philadelphia. During the 1890's, he moved to the Midwest and expanded his business to include the sale of German-made portable watchclocks. By 1896, his Newman Clock Company was well established in Chicago. In all, he received more than 30 patents in the United States, most of them related to watchclocks. In 1901, he received a patent on a technique by which an embossing type on a station key and a mating die inside the clock would emboss the paper recording chart. In 1906, Newman incorporated the Newman Clock Company and then sold it in 1909 to Charles E. Renshaw, a New York businessman. In 1910, Newman founded a competitive company, the Chicago Watchman's Clock Works”. This clock face mentions patents granted in 1880 and 1891, but not the 1901 patent, leading us to date this to the 1890s. Paper. 6.75”x6.75”. Cut a bit off- center, affecting parts of some numbers, fold, and with slight edge chips and closed tears, and a pinhole near the center but not at the center. Small piece of tape on the back edge. Apparently complete? [43413] $35 15. [Fur] 1870s “Directions for Fur Collectors and Trappers” American Pamphlet. An interesting folding brochure giving detailed directions for preparing the pelts of ermine, fisher, fox, lynx, martin, mink, possum, otter, skunk, badger, beaver, bear, raccoon, wolf, wolverine, and muskrats, and also giving tips on how to spoil a perfectly good pelt. At the bottom there is a note that copies of this for circulation are available free of charge, and lines for a fur buyer or collector to fill in their name and address. There is also this conservation-minded note: “Fur bearing animals MUST NOT be killed till they have at least a fair growth of fur. Stop trapping as soon in early spring as the fur begins to shed or becomes thin or a little faded. These too early or too late caught furs are a disgrace to fur trappers and collectors, and a wasteful, worthless slaughter”. Not dated, and no publisher, but probably 1860s or ‘70s. 4-panel folding brochure, printed on one side only. 5”x12.5”. Minor soil, light wear. [43407] $35 16. [Furniture] 1870s Colored Broadside for Hover’s Magic Lounge and Sofa Bed. A dramatic red and black colored broadside for Hover’s Magic Lounge and Sofa Bed, illustrating both examples in both their uses- just like a futon if you were a Victorian, and look every bit as uncomfortable. This monstrosity actually won an award at the 1876 Centennial Exposition. 14”x10.5”. Folded, light soil, minor wear. [43417] $175 17. [Furniture] 1880s Italian Artistic Furniture Manufacturer Card. A handsome card for M.Q. Testolini of Venice, maker of artistic furniture and able to supply single pieces or entire rooms- “Fabbrica Mobili Artistici - Specialita Stanze Complete - Meubles Artistiques (Decoration et Figure)”. 4.25”x3.25”. Some soil. [43356] $45 18. [Furniture] 3 Mounted Albumen Photos of Chinese Furniture for Import. Three albumen photos, two on one side of a heavy card, one on the other, showing three pieces of fancy carved Chinese furniture available for importing. A small glued-on slip of paper under each photo lists the dimensions and model number of each piece, three floor stands and a massive mirrored buffet which stood almost 9 feet high. 3 prints mounted on one board. 7”x9.5”. Some soil, light wear. [43395] $65 19. [Gardens] Alexander Jackson Davis Annotated Copy of 1858-59 Catalogue of Plants at Knapp Hill Nursery, Woking, Surrey. A catalog issued by Waterer & Godfrey in 1858. A catalog of shrubs, ornamental trees and other plants for sale by the noted nursery firm. The printed title of this catalog has been annotated as follows [ink annotations in brackets]- “1859-59 [Valuable] Catalogue of Plants. [Alex. J. Davis] Waterer & Godfrey, Knap Hill Nursery [Many of them in Llewellyn Park.] Woking, Surrey, near the Woking Station, South Western Railway”. The first page of the catalog is titled “American Plants” and contains quotes from reviews of an exhibition of American plants the firm had recently staged in Ashburnham Park in London. Alexander Jackson Davis, [1803-1892] was an influential American architect, garden designer, and proponent of the Gothic Revival style. He wrote an influential pattern book, ‘Rural Residences’, and illustrated a number of Andrew Jackson Downing’s books as well. Davis designed Llewellyn Park, one of the first planned garden suburbs, for New York City businessmen Llewellyn S. Haskell. Located in West Orange, New Jersey and opened in 1853, it survives to this day. A “series of finely crafted homes” (designed by Alexander Jackson Davis, Calvert Vaux, Charles McKim, Stanford White, and Robert A.M. Stern, among others) stood “amid majestic trees and running streams”. The landscape has been described as “in the 19th century romantic style of New York's Central Park [with] winding paths, ornamental trees, shrubs, and flowers”. A scarce catalog, not located by OCLC. Paper covers. 5.5”x8.5”, 35 pages. First and last leaves detached, first (title) leaf with some small edge chips and a whopping great closed tear right across the middle, extending almost all the way. Otherwise minor soil, light wear. [43401] SOLD 20. [Ice Boxes] 1882 Baldwin Dry Air Refrigerator 8-Panel Illustrated Brochure. An 8-panel brochure issued by the Baldwin Manufacturing Company of Shelburne, Vermont, illustrating 6 models of their Dry Air Refrigerator for home and business use. Includes two pages of testimonials and an elongated description of why their design is the best design. Refrigerators for home, grocer, restaurants, hotels, and anyone else needing cold food in the scorching, pitiless summers of northern New England. Folding brochure. 5.5”x9.5” (folded), 22”x9.5” (unfolded). Minor soil. [43396] SOLD 21. [Ink] 1880s Samuel P. Wright Company Printer’s Ink Card. A rather dramatic and attractive Aesthetically-inclined card for Samuel P. Wright Company’s printer’s inks. The Wright company, located in Camden, New Jersey, issued a series of colorful oversized trade cards like this one. The card was printed in Poughkeepsie, N Y. by Haight & Dudley, presumably employing Wright inks. 6.75”x4.75”. Minor soil. [43360] SOLD 22. [Ink] C.1910 Chromolithograph Broadside for Ault & Wiborg Printing Inks. Ault & Wiborg Company was founded in 1878 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and soon became a leading American manufacturer of printing inks and dry color dyes and pigments, and varnishes. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was among the artists who used Ault & Wiborg inks in his color lithographs, and he created a poster for the company featuring his mistress. Between 1890- and 1910 Ault & Wiborg released a series of full-page advertisements and flyers featuring their color inks, many, such as this one, using the new Art Nouveau style, which is here presented with Celtic ornamentation. The back of the sheet contains blue & black Nouveau/Celtic-themed ornaments and a text extolling the use of Ault & Wiborg inks. Single sheet. 7.5”x10”. Minor soil. [43380] SOLD 23. [Inn] 1816 Worcester Massachusetts Lodging & Dinner Bill. A partially- printed invoice for food and services at Samuel Hathaway’s Inn, “Worcester, near the bank”. The travelers apparently availed themselves of lodging, breakfast, dinner and lunch for $3.00 total. The statement also includes lines for liquor, “segars”, bottled cider, servant, “horse at hay”, grain, seat in the stage and baggage. Samuel Hathaway was a merchant who came to Worcester from Taunton and owned not only the inn but an adjacent farm. He sold both in 1823 and opened a hotel in Washington Square in 1825; he died, a wealthy man, in 1831. Single sheet. 4.25”x5.5”. Some soil. [43382] SOLD 24. [Japanese Porcelain] 1878 Paris Exposition Japanese Korancha Porcelain Card. A handsome card for Korancha (Koransha) porcelains, founded by the Fukagawa family in 1875 to make porcelain for export to the West. Koransha means Scented Orchid, and the company was based in Arita, the town where porcelain manufacture was begun in Japan in the 17th century. This card displays the medals won by the firm at expositions in the 1870s. 3.5”x4.75”. Minor soil, light wear, some rubbing to the gold. [43363] SOLD 25. [Military: Red Tape] 1867 Statement of Discrepancies for Company “D”, 9th Vermont Volunteers Under Captain A. Clark 1863-1865. A 3-page form dated January 14, 1867, titled “Statement of Discrepancies” and filled out for Captain A. Clark (possibly Asaph Clark of Cavendish) of Company D of the 9th Vermont Volunteers, starting in mid 1863 and going through June of 1865. Lists of unaccounted for items, such as haversacks, tents, socks, canteens, and shirts, are interspersed with remonstrative quotations from regulations regarding the necessity for affidavits and vouchers and for everything to be signed or witnessed. it’s unclear whether all this was going to come out of poor Captain Clark’s own pocket or not. The 9th Regiment organized at Brattleboro, Vermont as a 3-year regiment on July 9, 1862. It did garrison and construction duty before being withdrawn to Harper's Ferry and surrendering to Stonewall Jackson. the men were paroled to Chicago, exchanged, and did guard and garrison duty at various points in Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina, and defended New Berne against Pickett’s forces in February, 1864. the command was transferred to Petersburg, Virginia in September, 1864 and fought in several battles including Fair Oaks. It took part in the final assault on Richmond and was one of the first units in the city. The total strength of the 9th was 1,878 members, of whom 23 were killed in battle, 36 died during Confederate imprisonment, and 232 died from disease. Folder. 8.25”x13”, minor soil. [43412] SOLD 26. [New Year] 1891 Hoffman House Steel-Engraved New Year’s Menu Card. A handsome folding-card menu for the January 1, 1901 New Year’s Buffet at Manhattan’s famous Hoffman House hotel, featuring a steel-engraved picture of a bottle of champagne and grape vines. The Hoffman House was one of New York's most famous and grandest 19th century hotels. Originally built in 1864, by the 1880s the hotel had become world famous for its glamour and opulent decorations as well as its well-heeled clientele. Regular guests included Sarah Bernhardt, Grover Cleveland, Buffalo Bill Cody, John L. Sullivan, General Winfield Scott and others. William- Adolphe Bouguereau's scandalous painting 'Nymphs and Satyr' hung in the bar. Card. 4.25”x6.5”. Some soil, light wear. [43411] $40 27. [Ovens] 1886 Baltimore Oven Ranges Color Illustrated Billhead. An illustrated billhead for Wm. E. Wood & Co., of Baltimore, Maryland, “House warming and ventilating establishment, patent improved steam heating apparatus, Paris flat-top and favorite upper oven ranges, cook and heat stoves, plumbing and gas fitting”. There are two illustrations in dramatic red and black colors. Single sheet. 8.5”x7”. Folds, minor soil, light wear, several small stab holes. [43391] SOLD 28. [Privies] 1893 Odorless Excavating Apparatus for Privies - Baltimore Maryland Billhead. An illustrated billhead dated 1893 for John Schmitt & Son, “Proprietors of The National Odorless Excavating Apparatus”. The illustration shows a long hose coming from behind a fence and being pumped into one of many barrels. That, and the fact that they had a flat rate of $2.50 per ‘excavation’, leads one to the inevitable conclusion about why the ‘odorless’ part of the procedure was so important. Single sheet. 8.5”x7”. Folds, minor soil and wear, several very small ding-holes. [43389] $25 29. [Prospecting] 1880s Frank Triplett, Practical Miner & Prospector, Business Card. An attractive business card for Frank Triplett, “Practical Miner and Prospector” which notes him as the author of ‘How to Assay’ and the ‘Miner’s and Prospector’s Manual’. Triplett, originally from St. Louis, was also the author of a controversial 1882 biography of Jesse James, published just a few months after his death, and allegedly written with the help of James’ wife and mother. Although both women denied cooperating with Triplett in preparation of the book, they also subsequently sued the publisher for unpaid royalties, so you be the judge. Copies of the original editions are hard to find, and one rumor has it that Missouri’s governor, Thomas Crittenden, who is not portrayed in a flattering light in the book, had many copies destroyed. Triplett’s assaying book was published in 1881 and his Miner’s Manual in 1882; one might presume that if his Jesse James book had also been published when this card was printed he might have mentioned it, which would date this card to the first half of 1882. By 1883 Triplett was apparently back in St. Louis, listed in the city directory as an author, and he maintains listings there as a mining engineer from 1884 to 1891. 4.5”x3”. Minor soil. [43375] $85 30. [Railroad] 1883 Minneapolis Printer’s Card with the Northern Pacific Railroad Golden Spike. An attractive card for Proctor & Hamilton, Minneapolis printers, illustrating the Golden Spike- no, not that one, the other one, which was ‘driven’ on September 8, 1883 at the completion of the Northern Pacific Railway outside Helena, Montana. The back of the card lists a great number of fascinating statistics about 25-year old Minneapolis Minnesota, a happening town if there ever was one. 4.75”x2.75”. Some soil and wear. [43358] SOLD 31. [Rogers Groups] Original 1870s Mounted Promotional Photo for Rogers Group ‘Taking the Oath’. A mounted albumen print of John Rogers ‘Taking the Oath’ plaster group, with a paper

label on the back reading “Rodgers’ Groupes, Taking the Oath, and drawing rations” - Published by Annesley & Vint, Nos. 504 and 506 Broadway, Albany, N.Y.”. Sharp eyes will have noted that although the photo was in all probability supplied by Rogers, the label was most certainly by Annesley & Vint, as no matter how the spelled “Group”, the Rogers firm would hardly have misspelled their own name…

Annesley & Vint specialized in pictures frames & mirrors, prints, Rogers groups and such, and moved from their Broadway address in 1875, dating this to no later than that year. Mounted photo. 9.75”x12” (mount) 7.25”x9.25” (image). Some soil and light wear to the mount. [43418] $275 John Rogers [1829–1904] “was an American sculptor who produced very popular, relatively inexpensive figurines in the latter 19th century. He became famous for his small genre sculptures, popularly termed "Rogers Groups", which were mass-produced in cast plaster. At the height of their popularity, Rogers' figurines graced the parlors of homes in the United States and were found as far away as Chile and Australia. The English novelist Charles Reade furnished his home with all the Rogers figurines available to him, and in the Dakota Territory, Lt. Col. George Custer and his wife had one. Often selling for $15 apiece, the figurines were affordable to the middle class. Instead of working in bronze and marble, he sculpted in more affordable plaster, painted the color of putty to hide dust. Rogers was inspired by popular novels, poems and prints as well as the scenes he saw around him”. 32. [Rogers Groups] Original 1870s Mounted Promotional Photo for Rogers Group ‘Returned Volunteer’. A mounted albumen print of John Rogers ‘Returned Volunteer’ plaster group, with a paper label on the back reading “Rodgers’ Groupes, ‘Returned Volunteer’ - Published by Annesley & Vint, Nos. 504 and 506 Broadway, Albany, N.Y.”. Sharp eyes will have noted that although the photo was in all probability supplied by Rogers, the label was most certainly by Annesley & Vint, as no matter how the spelled “Group”, the Rogers firm would hardly have misspelled their own name…

Annesley & Vint specialized in pictures frames & mirrors, prints, Rogers groups and such, and moved from their Broadway address in 1875, dating this to no later than that year. Mounted photo. 10”x12” (mount), 7”x9.25” (image). Some soil and light wear to the mount. [43419] $275 33. [Sewing Tools] 1890s Butterick Trade Catalog of Sewing Shears and Scissors. Issued by the Butterick publishing Company of new York. An interesting catalog of sewing-related tools, including button-hole cutters, manicure tools, embroidery scissors, “champion cheap scissors”, surgical scissors, tailors’ points scissors, straight and bent shears, silk scissors, and “The Hummer”, a folding pocket scissor. This is a wholesale list, with prices for singles, dozens, and grosses. Not dated, but probably 1880s-90s. Softcover. 3.25”x5.25”. Minor soil, light wear. [43408] $40 34. [Shoes] 1880s Best & Company Lilliputian Bazaar Shoe Catalog No.15 & Original Artwork for the Cover. A booklet called “About Shoes”, issued as Catalog 15 by Best & Co.’s, Lilliputian Bazaar of New York City, which is actually a catalog of their latest women’s, men’s and children’s shoes. The illustration for the catalog cover shows a Renaissance-era dandy riding a horse, holding large waving banner that says “About Shoes” (undoubtedly a common sight in the streets of Renaissance-era New York City), all under a lineup of antique shoes. Accompanying the catalog is a rough pen & ink sketch on paper of this design, and a larger and more finished pen & ink drawing on card stock with some penciled printer’s directions, and some white inking applied to simulate cross-hatching. A most interesting trio. Softcover. 4.5”x5.75”, 19 pages, line cuts. Minor soil, light wear. With- 5”x6” pen & ink sketch on paper, and 7”x7.75” pen & ink sketch on card stock. Some light wear and soil. [43410] $175

35. [Silk] 1870s Fukushima Japan ‘Kakeda Silk’ Label. “The silk reeling industry in the Fukushima district had originally developed as a putting-out system controlled by local city merchants. The produce of this district, generally known as Kakeda silk, continued to remain in fair demand on the European market until the late 1870s” (Japan's Industrialization in the World Economy: 1859-1899, Sugiyama, 2013). In 1880 the Japan Weekly Mail complained- “Now it is well know, to all silk buyers, that the district from which true Kakeda silk comes is of small extent and quite incapable of producing more than a fractional part of the silk which is put on the market under its name. The quality of true Kakeda silk, being of exceptional excellence, has made for this class a name of renown; and it is no secret that reelers have attempted to profit from this by making nearly all Oshiu silks into so-called Kakeda, and thus bringing disrepute upon the original good stock”. In the 1880s export from the district declined in favor of other regions with better quality-control methods. 5”x3.5”. Mounted on a thin blue paper backing. [43378] $175 36. [Singing] 1860s J.A. White’s Singing School Admission Card. Sadly, an internet search turns up no evidence of either Miss White’s Singing School (or one by a Mr. White either), nor “Hattie See”. Based on the typography, stock and handwriting probably 1860s, but the locality remains a charming musical mystery. Card. 3”x1.5”. Minor soil, light wear. [43399] $25 37. [Textiles] 1859 Worcester Massachusetts Textile Dealer Folded Broadside Brochure. An attractive folded broadside/ brochure issued by Bryant & Sheldon of Worcester, Massachusetts, illustrating their building and using just about every letter in the typesetter’s box to describe their entire holdings of printed fabrics, dress silks, cloth capes, pine apple muslins, ladies’ capes & mantillas, shawls, skirts, blankets, sheetings, hosiery, gloves, and on and on (pause for breath) gleaned from New York, Boston, auctions, and all Bargains Bargains Bargains! There, I think that’s the gist of it. Folded sheet, printed one side. 8.5”x11”, some light soil, edge wear, light creases. [43398] SOLD

38. [Textiles] 1877 Philadelphia Cotton Dealer Sheetings Price List. A single-sheet price list dated 1877, issued by Sharples & Sons of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for cotton “sheetings”, both bleached and brown, from Wamsutta and other mills in Nashua, Laconia, Pequot, Utica, Amoskeag, Davol, Boston, Conestoga, Cohasset, Waltham and Winthrop. Single sheet. 6.5”x9”. Folds, minor soil. [43397] $20 39. [Textiles] 1880s Rajah Printed Cloth Sample Book from the Merrimack Mfg. Co. Mills. An attractive booklet of 6 samples of ‘Rajah Cloth’, a printed cotton, issued by the Merrimack manufacturing Company, the leading Lowell textile mill for much of the last half of the 19th century. The covers feature a printed paper label in a colorful and exotic scene of temples, palms, rocks and a river with an Aesthetic-Movement flavor. Card covers. 5”x8”. 6 cloth samples bound in. Covers with some soil and wear. [43409] $250 40. [Thread] 1860s French Fil au Chinois Linen Thread Carton Label. The company behind the Fil Au Chinois brand was founded by Francois-Philibert Vrau and began manufacturing linen thread in Lille in 1827. Francois-Philibert’s son, Philibert Vrau, took over in the 1850s and revitalized the brand which soared in popularity in the 1860s and 1870s. Philibert Vrau (1829-1905) was a philanthropist who founded a Catholic engineering school and donated a large portion of his income to social causes. 3.75”x5.75”, Minor soil. [43377] $250 41. [Umbrellas] 1910 Advertising Wagon Umbrellas Folding Color Broadside by Troy Carriage Sun Shade Company. An attractive folding broadside/brochure printed in orange, blue, and black, advertising advertising umbrellas for wagons and carts. The Troy company was formed in Troy, Ohio by Frank Douglass and Gus Stouder in 1887 and introduced its line of wagon umbrellas around 1900. Broadside. 8.25”x18.5”. Folds, minor soil, light wear. [43416] $100 42. [Washington’s Birthday] 1858 Washington’s Birthday-Night Celebration Banquet Lady’s Invitation. A charming printed card, “Lady’s Invitation”, to the “Grand Celebration and Banquet, at the Commissioner’s Hall, West Philadelphia, Washington’s Birth=Night, Monday Ev’ng, Feb 22, 1858, by Pennsylvania Camp No. 12, U.S. of A.”. It is unclear exactly what organisation held the banquet, but it may have had something to do with the patriotic Sons of America (though they labeled their camps “Washington’s Camp #X”. Card. 3.25”x2”. Minor soil. [43400] SOLD 43. [Wine: Blight] 1897-8 French Price List for American Grape Vine Stock. Issued by Pierre Benezech of Gignac in 1897. An interesting remnant of the Great French Wine Blight, a French pamphlet from a firm offering imported American grape vines. The accidental introduction of grape phylloxera-carrying aphids from America, first discovered in 1863, had devastated the French wine industry by the 1870s, when it was discovered that American rootstock could be grafted onto French vines and produce vines that were resistant to the disease. The rebuilding, or "Reconstitution" of French vineyards took a long time, and is referred to in the text of this brochure. A look at the advertising section of the 1897 edition of “Revue de viticulture: organe de l'agriculture des régions viticoles” will reveal numerous advertisements for French importers of American rootstock. Folding 6-panel brochure. 4.25”x6” (folded), 12.75”x6” (unfolded). Minor soil, light wear. [43406] SOLD 44. [Wine: Champagne] 1853 Champagne Importer Business Card, Letter & Envelope. Three interesting champagne- related items: A handwritten letter- “New York, Oct. 1st 1853 - Mr. M.E. Jose, Sir, I forward to you by todays Express (Kinsey’s) 3 Baskets Champagne which I spoke to you about when last in your city. The Importer would not sell less than 3 Baskets so I took it on my own (illegible). He being a particular friend of mine, Below please find bill of same. Truly yours, C.P. Barnard - bot of Ch.P. Barnard 3 Baskets Billecart S.H. Champagne 13.50 $40.50”; the envelope the letter came in, addressed to Mr. M.E. Jose, Elm House, Portland”; a business card- “Billecart Salmon’s Verzenay Champaigne, Mareuil Sur Ay. Sole Importer J. Meyer, Jr. New York”.

On the rear of the card there is a price list ($14 a basket for either white or pink), showing that selling three baskets was indeed a favor- the minimum order was 5 baskets, and the quantity needed for a discount started at 25 baskets. Billecart- Salmon was founded in 1818 with the marriage of Nicolas François Billecart and Elisabeth Salmon, and remains family-owned to this day. A 1959 bottling took first place, and their 1961 took second place, in the Champagne of the Millennium 1999 tasting in which it competed with the likes of Dom Perignon, Krug, Taittinger, Pol Roger and Louis Roederer. 3 items. Envelope with wear, card with light wear and soil and the street address corrected in period ink. [43394] $175

45. [Wine: Ohio] Souvenir - Lenk Wine Co., Toledo Ohio. Toledo, around 1892. An attractive and clever promotional booklet shaped like one of the wine casks of which the company was so proud. The text describes the winery and is illustrated with cuts of the factory and interior and a few photographs of the surrounding countryside. Lenk Wine Company, “growers and wholesale dealers in native wines”, was founded in 1867 and incorporated in 1872; they farmed 28 acres of “fine, rolling land, splendidly adapted to the cultivation of the vine. The grounds are handsomely laid out and present a beautiful appearance of shaded avenues and walks with verdant, well-kept lawns, embellished with shrubbery and flower gardens, and dotted here and there with rustic arbors and summer houses of unique design”. But wait, that’s not all- “the main buildings are supplied with basements or cellars, where the wine is stored in huge casks varying in capacity from 1,000 gallons to 36,000 gallons each, the total capacity being the enormous amount of 850,000 gallons, While upon this subject, it will prove of interest to state that the company’s cask having a capacity of 36,000 gallons, is the largest one of the kind in the world in use… This cask measures 21 feet in length, and is twenty feet in diameter. Its top is reached by a flight of steps, twenty-nine in number, where there is a platform for visitor”. The wineries leading wines were Dry Catawba, Sweet Catawba, Iona, Norton’s Virginia Seedling, Ives’ Seedling, claret, and port. The 28 acres, with all those lawns, arbors and shrubberies came nowhere near to producing enough grapes to fill the enormous vats, and the company purchased grapes from the lake Erie islands “and other vineyards”. Lenk wines won a medal at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Paper covers. 5.75”x4.5”, 12 pages, black & white illustrations. Minor soil, light wear. [43392] $200 46. [Wine: Rooms] 1860s New Haven Connecticut Restaurant and Wine Rooms Business Card. A card for the Union Olympic Restaurant and Wine Rooms in New Haven, Connecticut, Frank H. Lucas, agent. An internet search locates no references for this establishment, but the typography and card stock look distinctly 1860s. 3.25”x2”. Minor soil, light wear. [43374] $65 47. [Wine & Spirits] Early 1900s Color Booklet for Lake Keuka Vintage Co. Wines & Spirits. Bath, N.Y., around 1902-3. A colorful brochure/trade catalog describing and illustrating the Lake Keuka Vintage Co.’s line of wines and spirits and touting their Quality as well as some medicinal & therapeutic uses. There are also testimonials and price lists, advice for buying the best wine, descriptions of the grapes, and other most-valuable information.

In a series of charming color illustrations, which feature pictures of each bottle, we are told that their port and sherry are a boon the the “sick and invalid” (probably true), that their claret and brandy are “invaluable for nursing mothers” (also probably true in its own way) because “they clarify the blood”; that white tokay is a “favorite of the ladies”; that their “White Pearl” champagne “is pronounced by connoisseurs to be equal to any made in the United States”; and that their star, the bottled Champagne Cocktail is a “High-Class beverage, the only Genuine Sparkling Cocktail on the Market”. Softcover. 6.25”x3.5”. 15 pages, color illustrations. Minor soil. [43393] $250

48. [Wine & Spirits] Colorful Art Nouveau French Flavored Liqueurs Brochure C. 1910. An attractive 3-panel folding brochure for the Bordeaux firm Chastenet Freres featuring their Apricot Liqueur (“Poem of Aroma”), Strawberry Liqueur (“Queen of all Liqueurs”), and Creme de Menthe (“Delight of the Connoisseur”), each bottle illustrated in brilliant chromolithography and bordered with Art Nouveau designs. “These three liqueurs can be had at all Clubs, Hotels and Restaurants all over the United States and are sold by the Leading Wine Merchants in every city”. Tri-fold brochure. 2.66”x6” (folded), 8”x6” (unfolded). Minor soil. [43414] $85 That’s All Folks!