Vintage Ephemera Advertising

I scored a second album of vintage ephemera for $10.

I am putting all of the advertising pieces on ebay.

All date from around 1900.

Love this kitty advertising,

appearing to stand on little cat feet.

I love that this place sold crockery and wallpaper.

Wouldn't you have loved to have seen their merchandise?

Great Victorian angel advertising.

1902 and 1904 advertising,

without the calendars.

Ephemera From A $4 Scrapbook

 We were pretty busy last weekend, getting ready for our sale.

But my husband managed to get to a yard sale and buy an old scrapbook for $4.

It really was tattered and in shreds, but you would be too if you were 120 years old.

 Some stuff was glued down, and some just loose.

These are five trade cards for "Swift's Beef Extract".

Sold for $5.

 Another trade card, which was a great advertising ploy.

Children and adults collected trade cards,

there wasn't much colored printing going on back then.

Sold for $5.

 This advertised typewriters manufactured in Omaha.

Sold for $52.

 1901 Singer Sewing Machine calendar.

Sold for $10.

 Booklet with litho flowers.

Sold for $5.

 Diecut greeting cards,

most published by Raphael Tuck & Sons.

Most of the stuff in the scrapbook dated between 1895- 1910.

Sold for $10.

All of these will be on ebay in the next few weeks.

Pre-WWI Navy Postcards -- One Man's Story

 I bought all of these postcards last summer,

and quickly stashed them away until I had more time to process them.

The same young man sent all these home just before WWI.

He was on the Battleship Nebraska (top pic).

 They range in date from 1908-1913.

Can you imagine being gone for so long?

Hopefully he got home before WWI started.

 The USS Nebraska played baseball against

the USS Missouri.  Nebraska won.

On the back it said that 7000 men watched the game.

He said "this is a pic of the turret that I am

training for gun pointer in."

This is actually a pic of him jumping off the boom.

So much history is lost in such a small amount of time.

Selling all of these postcards as a lot on ebay.

I know that the person buys them will value them.

Sold for $46.

The Language Of Flowers Through Postcards

Gifts of blooms, plants, and specific floral arrangements were used to send a coded message to the recipient, allowing the sender to express feelings which could not be spoken aloud in Victorian society.Armed with floral dictionaries, Victorians often exchanged small "talking bouquets,"with several types of coded flowers. Victorian postcards portraying particular flowers were also a source of the (not-so-secret) code.  I am bunching together groups of vintage flowered postcards for ebay.

 ROSES

Rose -- I love you (in general) but here were just some of the more specific messages:

• Rose( white) – Eternal Love ; innocence; heavenly; secrecy and silence
• Rose(pink) – Perfect happiness; please believe me
• Rose(Yellow) – Friendship ; jealousy; try to care
• Rose(Black) -Death Rose(red and white) – Together; unity
• Rose(thornless) – Love at first sight
• Rose( single, full bloom) – I love you; I still love you
• Rose bud – Beauty and youth ; a heart innocent of love
• Rose bud(red) – Pure and lovely
• Rose bud(white) – Girlhood
• Rosebud (moss) – Confessions of love
• Roses(Bouquet of full bloom) – Gratitude
• Roses( Garland or crown of) – Beware of virtue; reward of merit; crown ; symbol of merit
• Roses ( musk cluster) – Charming
• Rose(tea) – I’ll always remember
• Rose(cabbage) – Ambassador of love
• Rose(Christmas) – Tranquilize my anxiety; anxiety
• Rose(damask) – Brilliant complexion
• Rose(dark crimson) – Mourning

 PANSIES

 Thoughts, Love

 VIOLETS

Violet – Meaning: Modesty; Calms tempers; Induces sleep
Violet (blue) – Meaning: Watchfulness; Faithfulness; I’ll always be true
Violet (white) – Meaning: Let’s take a chance on happiness

 FORGET ME NOTS

These are my favorite: symbolizing True love; memories.

Vintage Valentine Bonanza

I purchased a box of vintage / antique valentine's at an auction this past summer.  Summer is a super busy time for me, so I squirreled away the box without really looking through it.  I was pleasantly surprised a couple of weeks ago when I finally had time to look through the box.

I was pleased at the age of the Valentine Cards.

Most of them date from 1913-1924.

I was pleasantly surprised at the condition.

Only a couple were in good or fair condition,

the rest were "very good."

I was surprised at the variety.

Die cut; mechanical; pop out; stand up; lithographed; German.

This one is mechanical and made in Germany.

I got several of these "multi-layer" valentine's

with paper doilies.

Here is my favorite one.

Pop up with honeycomb.

All are heading to ebay in the next couple of weeks.

Vintage Real Photo Postcard Bonanza

I bought a box of real photo postcards at an auction about a month ago. This category is maybe one of my favorite things to sell.  I love to buy them, read the notes on the back, research them, imagine the people who purchased them and the time period they lived in.  It is a thin sliver of time caught on a postcard -- usually dating between 1905-1945.

I love the story this postcard tells...

could the photographer not even write straight?

These are two identical postcards:

Iceberg shaped café and gas station in New Mexico.

 

Plane and dog sled postcard from Alaska.

In this group of postcards I actually got TWO

of prize winning roosters.

I am keeping the other one for now.

People love their animals.

This thing looks like a submarine.

Amphibian airplane.

A snapshot of San Francisco.

All are going to ebay soon.

Saturday's Vintage Finds -- 5.21.2016

My husband and I rolled out about 6:30 am to hit a small citywide garage sale about 30 minutes from us.  Last year I had almost loaded the van at the first sale.  This year, not so much.  A little here, a little there.  But it all added up in the end.  Most will probably go in my vintage booths at the Rusty Chandelier, St Joseph MO.

The two tall items on the right are antique hatstands.  Love.

 

Three washtubs, front one is probably more of a feed bucket.

These feed buckets are hard to get ahold of, this is the first one I've purchased.

A Hotpoint radiating heater.

Love the colors, love the legs...

Love the funky enamel flower in the center.

These are my best purchase.

Circa 1943 airplane identification posters,

published by Coke.  17 of them.

I'm putting them on ebay as soon as I hang up here.

  Purchased for $22, sold for $371.