191: A SCRAPBOOK OF VICTORIAN DIE-CUT EPHEMERA

The chromolithographed pieces, some embossed, die cut and paper lace cards, advertising in German and English, Willimantic Thread, Hoyt's German Cologne, Granite Iron Ware, Hohenschuh & Cree Furniture, Red Star Cough Cure, Smith Wallace Shoe Co., Reward of Merit, plus many other product labels, a Chicago & North-Western Railway Engine No. 666 One Ton Coal ticket, assorted late Victorian German chromolitho prints, and more. Includes over 370 separate pieces of ephemera. Album has a handwritten explanation about how the original album containing all these items was inundated in a flood and the daughter of the maker carefully dried all pieces and put together this album in the early 1970s.
Album measures 12.75 x 12.25 inches.
Good condition, note toning of the album pages. Individual pieces mostly in good to very good condition, but a few in average condition with wears and abrasion.
$20 - $200