Folk Art
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...
Vintage 1940s/50s Handmade Folk Art Fantasy Blues Pedal Lap Steel Guitar
$1,500.00
Fantastically sinister headstock and fire blistered, alligator varnish gives it presence. Sheet metal construction with an absurdly sized three piece neck, the headstock splinted in to meet an entirely hand formed nut. Nothing standard: Body measures...
Antique 1900s Carved SNAKES Cigar Box Folk Art Picture Frame
$295.00
High style Tramp Art, found in Ohio. Killer geometric shapes, frilled leaves and upturned snakes. Monogram appears to read W. Not particularly functional rabbit measures 10.25 x 12, space on the wall 12.5 x 14.5” with...
Antique 19thc African American Spiritual Voodoo Southern Folk Art Memory Jug
$2,750.00
This one speaks. Not a random mash of personal tokens as is so common with this form, but more an assembled power object. A meticulous and considerate theme of human interaction with the animal and natural...
Vintage 1900s Writer Photographer Publication Rejections Artist Archive
$450.00
Imagine the emotional weight that kept these safe in a drawer and then for three more generations. George Wharton Edwards, director of the Art Department at Colliers, The Metropolitan Magazine, Wide World Magazine (London), The New York...