Folk Art
19thc Victorian Folk Art Love Token Sampler Family Photo Tree
$795.00
Miraculous care and loving design in something akin to paper crochet creates a nest for each of the matriarch's beloved images. Names penciled on reverse. Materials: Gem Tintypes, silver paper grid and yarn, c1880s/90s. American...
Antique 19thc Figural PIG Barley Twist Fantasy Folk Art Footstool
$1,500.00
Outstanding. Expert turnings and lathe work suggests this is a skilled cabinet maker whimsy, found in Pennsylvania (though a British form). Original mahogany paint and inset white marble eyes. Worn chip on snout, one foot...
Vintage 1910s CANARY BIRDS SALE Foil Painted Glass Folk Art Deco Store Sign
$795.00
Scalloped tin on glass sign, late 1910s/early 1920s. Vibrant and attractive design, tiny foil bird as punctuation!
Beautiful condition with dime size imperfection to black paint. Measures 5 x 16.5”.
WWI French Women’s Relief Fund Embroidery Homefront Textile Folk Art
$295.00
Cavalry on horseback, manning cannons, soldiers at attention with flag and endearing leisure time playing cards receiving letters from home. Beautiful work, signed with the Relief Fund shield at corners. Coarse linen measures 31 x...
1880s Victorian Children Make Do Big Game Animal Prop Cabinet Photo
$195.00
Howard started with real horns and built himself a mop ram! Incredible that his wealthy clients let him get away with it, but LOVABLE. Measures 4.25 x 6.5”, signed Eureka Kansas. Surface scuffing (a single scratch...
Antique 19thc Desiccated Victorian Christmas Candy Store Apothecary Jar
$950.00
Frozen moment in time. Store display likely dates to the 1880s/90s and is packed with figural sugar molds, candy poles (canes) and maybe even the occasional star shaped cookie! Appears to be just as a...
Antique 1900 Victorian Make Do Felt Monkey Family Stuffed Toys
$395.00
Found together in one Pennsylvania mountain home. Clearly made by hand, from different scraps available at different times. Large pair (8” high) more clearly impersonates the commercially available Schuco yes / no toys of...
Antique 1900 Revolutionary America Folk Art Sampler Museum Photo
$225.00
1795 Maryland Sampler embroidered by Miss Rebecca Cromwell as photographed and archived by Douglas E. Brinton (Oxford Pennsylvania) in the year 1900. Outrageously cool. Sight size measures 4.5 x 5.75”, mount 7.5 x 9.75”. Nice...
Vintage 1920s Hand Painted WINK’s Pretzels Drum Head Trade Sign
$295.00
Graphic and wonderful! The sign painter signature (E.L. Johnson) and quality composition of either vellum or hide here suggests this was a parade piece made to endure the elements. Age has added a glassine quality...
Antique 19thc Victorian Old Mexico Charro Suit Chalk Portrait Photo
$395.00
The timing of the Mexican Revolution and the accessibility of photography are such that reference images of Old Mexico's gentry are exceptionally rare. The elaborate Charro suit, riding crop and early studio photo seen here all report a...
Antique 1900 Pigeon Bird Carrier Log Cabin Construction Wood Box
$795.00
Elaborate construction, built with every nuance in mind. Stacked slats and beehive design allow for air flow, piped in water bowl and oil cloth seals. Bookended hardware, hand tacked leather ornament and gold sign painter’s decorations....
WWI Era Industrial American Small Town Photographer's Archive
$1,250.00
HP Noel's attention to film speeds and proper lighting produced compulsive work that is more accomplished than most studios. His own family generations deep in the region, Noel perfectly documented a small American town during the early...