This book plate includes a variety of styles of vintage chandeliers. The styles of chandeliers illustrated on the page are:1. Modern, style of the German Renascence;2. German Renascence, Hemispherical, for 8 candles;3 – 6. Modern, bronze and wrought-iron; and7. Modern, French, by the sculptor Villeminot (L’art pour tous). Here is a black and white clip…
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Vintage Christmas Greeting Card
This vintage Christmas greeting card features an illustration of children, behind a wall of large snowballs, throwing small snowballs at adults riding by in a horse-drawn sleigh. A small town in the valley can be seen in the distance. The message on the card is: My Greeting We may not play with snow balls,Nor have…
Vintage Pastry Clip Art
Here is a display of six vintage pastry clip art illustrations. My original scan is from the puddings and pastry section of Mrs. Beeton’s Household Management, circa 1888.
Victorian Christmas Carollers
This vintage Christmas greeting card features an illustration of carollers singing at a front entrance of a house on a quiet, snow-covered Victorian street. The carollers are dressed in warm, elegant Victorian clothing. The inside of the card includes a small illustration of holly leaves and berries and the greeting: Merry Christmas with Best Wishes…
Vintage Halloween Clip Art
Happy Halloween! This vintage article about Halloween mentions that school children find a peculiar fascination in the weird legends and time-honored symbols of Halloween. The article suggests that school children keep busy with projects such as: making booklets in the shape of pumpkins, black cats, witches’ hats or brooms, which may serve as invitation to…
Child Chef Vintage Illustration
This vintage postcard features an illustration of a child immersed in playing chef on the kitchen floor. This little chef, dressed only in an apron and chef’s hat, is using a top hat as a mixing bowl for the food he or she is preparing. The greeting on the postcard is a single word, “Kuchenchef”….
Vintage Alarm Clock Clip Art
Here is a vintage alarm clock clip art illustration. The numbers on the face of the clock are Roman Numerals. The clock sits on two small legs and has a large bell at the top, above the clock face. I scanned the original illustration from The Wanamaker Stores 1903-4 Holiday Catalogue.
Vintage Kitchen Utensils Catalogue Page
This vintage catalogue page includes a variety of kitchen utensils, including: a corkscrew, an egg timer, toothpicks, a potato masher, strainers, egg beaters, soap holders, spoons, spice racks and a rolling pin. I scanned the original page from my copy of the 1907 Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalogue.
Vintage Lady Patience Illustration
This vintage postcard, titled Patience, features an illustration of a dark-haired lady wearing a blue gown and a white veil. She is walking along a sandy beach, carrying a large cross. Another postcard image from this set, titled Purity, is available on my blog here.
Vintage Pickle Jar Clip Art
Here is a vintage clip art illustration of an old fashioned pickle jar. There is a label on the jar marked Piccalilly and the top of the jar is covered with a piece of fabric that is elasticized at the neck of the jar. I scanned the original image from Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management, circa…
Vintage Ice Coupons
Here are two strips of ice coupons. Each strip has four coupons: one strip has a pink background and the other strip has a yellow background. The pink coupons were each worth 25 pounds of ice and the yellow coupons were each worth 50 pounds of ice. The coupon book these coupons are from was…
Vintage Ice Coupon Book
Here is the front and back cover of a vintage coupon book that held enough coupons to redeem for 500 pounds of ice. The coupon book was printed for John Peters of Williamsport, PA.
