NVCA
Auction 2010-1 - Ending April 15, 2010
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1. Mansell Lace Quarto, applied flowers and scroll, slight damage to
top and right edges, signed on the front, gFrom Your Valentine, Feb.
14, 1857h.
Starting bid $125.
2. Soleil, image of sunflower depicted as a dark-skinned man, from Grandvillefs Les Fleurs Animées, circa 1866. Hand-colored engraving, 7h x 11h.
Starting bid $75.
3. Friendship. Calligraphy, circa 1750, signed by George Duncan, 6 x 7 1/4.
Starting bid $75.
4. Salesmanfs Sample Card, Connecticut Steam Card Works, Hartford,
CT. Rare, tri-fold heavy stock card, front has images of calling
cards, reverse, explanations and prices. 11h x 13 3/4h.
Starting bid $100.
5. Hanging Heart with ribbon, signed on reverse: Tuck; on front: artist-signed R.F. Outcault. 8h x 8h.
Starting bid $65.
6. Pore Lil Mose sends his Pa a Valentine, cartoon, artist-signed, R.
F. Outcault. Refers to Comic Valentines. 10 1/2h x 14 3/4h.
Starting bid, $100.
7. Proposal Love Letter and envelope to Nancy Loweks, Montgomery County, NY, 1850, envelope gPaid 5h, 2 1/4h x 3 3/4h.
Letter: 3 1/2h x 5h. Red gelatin wafer seals – two on letter, one on flap: one shows a mirror: I never flatter. One shows a blacksmith: Strike while the iron is hot. (Third is illegible)
Starting bid $100.
8. Letter and envelope to same Nancy Loweks as above. Envelope:
Remnants of sealing wax, top flap absent. Pale gray, gilt tarnished.
Sent from Manheim, Feb 14th to Palatine Bridge, Montgomery County, New
York, gPaid 10h, 8 1/4h x 5 1/2h.
Letter signed Feb 14, 1849 by gDandy Jimh 4 3/4 x 7 1/4, once folded.
Starting bid $75.
9. Proposal letter from above Nancy archive. Embossed blank decorated
with gold Dresden heart and wedding band. Signed gValatineh, 3 3/4h x 5
3/4h.
Starting bid $40.
10. Mechanical Valentine: historic gmoving pictureh machine, early 20th century, shows four gfilmh images, approx. 5h x 9h.
Starting bid $35.
11. Large heart with easel stand, cupid with heart, die-cut woman on
paper spring. Slight edge damage to one area. 8 1/2h x 9h,
circa 1900.
Starting bid $25.
12. Die-cut gdressedh girl with pleated fabric skirt. Wearing tam,
which has crack in cardboard on back, invisible from front. Circa
1910-15. 6 1/4h x 9 1/4h.
Starting bid $40.
13. Advertising flier, J.B. Hoeger & Sons, Milwaukee, WI, 1870,
Fascinating list of offerings. Reverse shows use as practice paper for
sentimental poetry! 5h x 8h.
Starting bid $75.
14. Golliwog and boy, wearing feather headdress, and teddy bear, all in
a canoe! Bright red honeycomb heart and original unused envelope. Fine.
Circa 1920. 9h x 6 1/2h. gMade in Germanyh.
Starting bid $100.
15. Punch and Judy Mechanical Theater. Creases in several places and
mechanism is a bit stubborn, but still cute and wonderful. 6h x 8h.
Starting bid $25.
16. Honeycomb pull-down, boy and girl talking on brass candlestick
telephones, popular 1899-1915. Message spelled in the phone cord.
Some soil on bottom. Another historic invention for collectors!
Starting bid $25.
17. gIce Cream, Salad, and Cake Decorationsh. Valentine
decorative elements fastened with toothpicks to card, circa 1920. 6h x
7 3/4h.
Starting bid $15.
18. Victorian lace and scrap, layered on pink and silver blank. Slight damage, 4 1/2h x 6h.
Starting bid $7.50
19. Airplane, die-cut, chromolithographed. Wings lift to create
wonderful 3-D effect. Small damage to back and wheel, but rare and such
fun! gMade in Germanyh, circa 1930. 8hx10h.
Starting bid $25.
20. Esther Howland. Top layer is lace, makerfs name is embossed: Wood,
attached by accordion springs. Central scrap, pasted upon yellow, of
girl with tussy-mussy, and four small scraps. Top one says,
gFriendshiph. Embossed on reverse, NEV Co 5. 3 3/4h x 2 3/4h.
Starting bid $125.