Ephemera
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[Textiles – Advertising]. “Obsequio de la Antigua ‘Casa Coll’ J. Ribot a sus Amigos y Clientes…” (Gift from the Old “Casa Coll” J. Ribot to Friends and Clients). Single cloth sheet (23.3 x 26 cm) with illustration and text in black on white ground (very slight dustsoiling to lower edge). Barcelona: [J. Ribot], 1929.
![[Textiles – Advertising]. “Obsequio de la Antigua ‘Casa Coll’ J. Ribot a sus Amigos y Clientes…” (Gift from the Old “Casa Coll” J. Ribot to Friends and Clients). Single cloth sheet (23.3 x 26 cm) with illustration and text in black on white ground (very slight dustsoiling to lower edge). Barcelona: [J. Ribot], 1929.](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_5244.jpg)
Mechanically woven cotton souvenir from a textile manufacturer exhibiting at the International Exposition Barcelona 1929 [May 20, 1929-January 15, 1930], featuring a reproduction by the house draftsman J. Perez (credited in the bottom left corner as “Teorico-Dibujante de la Casa”) of the painting Las hilanderas (The Spinners, 1655-1660) by Velázquez held in the Museo del…
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[Women’s Liberation Movement]. “THIS EXPLOITS WOMEN.”
![[Women’s Liberation Movement]. “THIS EXPLOITS WOMEN.”](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_5258-rotated.jpg)
Two sheets with seven (of eight) rectangular stickers, each with the message printed in black in large, decorative letters, each sticker 20.5 x 7.8 cm with a black frame on a white background, [ca. 1970] (minor stains). A series of stickers for pasting over material offensive to women – one of the stickers missing, presumably…
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The Hyman Kaplan Collection of Playing Cards, ca. 1845-2015 (SOLD).
Expansive collection of playing card decks, from a single collector, bearing witness to nearly 175 years of transportation history, technological innovation, race interpretation, advertising trends, international travel (U.S., African, Asian, Canadian, Cuban, European, Hawaiian, Russian) and politics, depicted on 709 decks of playing cards. Collector Hyman Kaplan (d. 2018) was an engineer and author (Paradise…
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Abraham Lincoln Signed Check to “William Johnson (Colored),” the President’s Valet, Who Accompanied Him to Antietam and Gettysburg
William Henry Johnson was a free black servant who accompanied the president-elect on his journey from Springfield to Washington, D.C., while Lincoln was under threat of assassination. Lincoln’s identification of Johnson as “Colored” would facilitate the latter’s cashing of the check. On arrival in the capital, Lincoln found employment for Johnson stoking the furnace of the…
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EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Autograph Letter Signed
4pp. May 20, 1853. Concord [MA]. An ALS from Emerson to poet and historian, John Albee. With a signed one-page typescript, December 14, 1957, from Emersonian Kenneth Cameron on its editing. New Castle historian and poet, John Albee (1833-1915), spent several years as a Unitarian minister before writing the 1884 history of New Castle, New…
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[ANTIQUE GOOSE GAMES] SCHOLZ, Josef. Quatre jeux nouveaux. Chemin de fer, Courses hippiques, Régates, Tournoi. (4 New games on the themes of : Railway, Horse Racing, Regatta, Knight Tournament).
![[ANTIQUE GOOSE GAMES] SCHOLZ, Josef. Quatre jeux nouveaux. Chemin de fer, Courses hippiques, Régates, Tournoi. (4 New games on the themes of : Railway, Horse Racing, Regatta, Knight Tournament).](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/100_1231.jpg)
No place mentioned (Germany), no editor mentioned (Josef Scholz), no date (19th century). Contemporary binding in half brown cloth, title and decorations on the front cover. Publisher’s initials in the corners. Dimensions of the folded booklet : 13.6 x 8.5 inches. Dimensions of the game boards : 17 x 13.4 inches. Rare cardboard and paper…
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[ADVERTISING – CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY – CHOCOLATE] 3 advertising boxes of chocolate pieces illustrated with chromolithographies. Themes are : Music instruments (les Grands Concerts) – Children’s costumes and games – Circus and Animals.
![[ADVERTISING – CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY – CHOCOLATE] 3 advertising boxes of chocolate pieces illustrated with chromolithographies. Themes are : Music instruments (les Grands Concerts) – Children’s costumes and games – Circus and Animals.](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/125_1170.jpg)
No place mentioned, no editor mentioned, no date (circa 1880). Beautiful rectangular boxes (5.3 x 3.3 inches) in thin cardboard, decorated with a chromolithograph. Each box is filled with 12 individual smaller boxes (0.78 x 1.57 inches) also illustrated with a chromolithograph which were meant to protect a piece of chocolate. The « Grand Concerts » box…
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Afromobile pictures 1910-1920
(14 x 9 cm). Set of eight “real photo” postcards from Palm Beach Florida. Four with inscriptions to versos: 1) “Aren’t these funny looking things for grown up people to ride around in? They are used all the time in Palm Beach.” 2) ” This is the life! How do we look? ” 3) How…
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Nannucci, Maurizio. Catalogue for the exhibition at Internationaal Cultureel Centrum, AntwerpFebruary 10 – March 18, 1979.
Samenstelling tentoostelling (exhibition by) Florent Bex, Lutgart Reynen, Glenn van Looy. Cardboard folder. 30,5:22 cm, containing different documents such as 2 colour postcards, 2 folded posters printed on glassine, 11 loose sheets with text works and photo works (of which one is printed on clear film), 2 stapled brochures, one 7” vinyl record (“parole” from…
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Kruger, Barbara. I Shop Therefore I Am. Published by Koelnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, (1990).
Circa 43,5:27,3 cm. Photolithograph on paper shopping bag. Designed as a functional and ephemeral bag, most of them were used and did not survive. Our bag with minimal toning due to paper quality otherwise in mint condition (it has never been used). Edition size unknown (MoMa, New York mentions 9000 copies). Barbara Kruger’s I Shop…