Sold for:
$185

Scrapbook, 1890-1900, large disbound scrapbook, America, likely New York City, sixty-eight pages with mostly very colorful and embossed greeting cards, advertising tickets, paper pieces from play sets, and decorative images of babies, children, pets, ethnic stereotypes, an alligator in a blazer chasing a boy up a pole, a girl riding an ostrich, clowns, soldiers, race horses, cowboys and Indians, stage coaches, caricatures, a dog drinking a baby's root beer, and more, all cut out and pasted into the album, covers detached, foundation pages chipping, 9 1/2 x 14 in.


Skinner

Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2012-12-12