Addressed to Uhrichsville, Ohio: circa 1902. Envelope or Cover. This post card is franked with a 1-cent blue-green Franklin stamp (Scott #300) with a multi-bar machine cancel. The reverse features a hand drawn illustration titled “The Fortune Teller Postal” with text that reads “A cross eyed dude is going to..... More about A hand-drawn humorous fortune-telling card featuring a witch and cross-eyed man
Boston to Franconia, New Hampshire: circa 1879. Envelope or Cover. This envelope features a hand drawing of climbers ascending Mt. Lafayette. It is franked with a 1-cent ultramarine Franklin stamp (Scott #182) and a 2-cent vermillion Jackson stamp (Scott #283). It bears a circular Boston postmark with an indistinct date... More about A hand-illustrated envelope showing climbers ascending Mt. Lafayette
U.S. Army Transport ship USAT General W. M. Black: [1948]. Unbound. This original line and wash watercolor measures 14.25” x 12.25”. It is titled “Voyage No 5 Bremerhaven, Germany – Valparaiso, Chile” and the name of the ship, General W. M. Black, is prominently shown in the colorful drawing along..... More about Original comic watercolor documenting life aboard a post-World War II U.S. Army ship transporting...
Hudson, New Hampshire: 1904-1905. Notebook. This 8” x 13” repurposed ledger contains approximately 90 pages of illustrations with six additional pages of textual “harriscopes” (horoscopes) and astrological predictions. Many of the smaller drawings are similar to primitive, turn-of-the-century tattoo designs shown at the Paul Rogers Tattoo Research Center Archives. The..... More about Early 20th century sketchbook including disturbing outsider art, probably used as a tattoo flash...
Probably Pennsylvania: 1807. Full leather. The prayer book measures approximately 4.25” x 6.25”; the slipcase is 4.5” x 7”. Complete with frontispiece, title page, author and ownership page, 273 numbered text pages, and a 7-page index. The exceptionally well-done frontispiece is hand-drawn/colored and shows Jesus in prayer next to a.... More about German fraktur manuscript prayer book with slipcase
Monroe, Michigan to Detroit: 1878. Envelope or Cover. 1-cent Liberty head postal card (Scott #UX5) posted in Monroe, Michigan to Detroit. The card is illustrated on the reverse with an especially fine calligraphic drawing of a dove. The surrounding text is in German and wishes the recipient luck on her... More about A wonderful calligraphic birthday greeting on the reverse of a U.S. postal card in German...
Cards. 16 different holiday cards, most approximately 5.25" x 3.5", each with a different scene created from cut pieces of postage stamps. Most of the stamps used in the art work came from the 1938 Presidential series, although a small number of other definitive, commemorative, back-of-the-book, and foreign stamps were... More about 1940s and Early 1950s Collection of Folk Art - Postage Stamp 'Mosaic Paintings'
New York: 1895. Unbound. This postally used envelope features two nicely drawn pencil sketches. One is of a braying donkey in evening dress with a caption that reads, “1 A.M. – Just in from the Box Social. Very tired and sleepy.” The other is of a court jester holding a...... More about Hand-drawings of a finely dressed donkey and court jester on a postally used envelope with a...
Germany or Pennsylvania Dutch Country: 1930s. Hardcover. This 4.5” x 6” hardcover notebook contains 140 pages of both traditional and folk songs—music and lyrics--many related to camping or hiking. 55 of the songs are German, nine are American, and three are French. There is an index in the rear. Exceptionally... More about Hand-written and hand-illustrated folksong book with music and lyrics in both German and English
