MISCELLANEOUS

ANTIQUE OIL PAINTING OF AN ELK, oil on board, fair condition with some scratches, original gold gilt gesso frame has considerable damage with missing pieces    #30280    $235.00....
 

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.1959 PENNWOOD DIGITAL NUMECHRON TYMETER TV CLOCK, model 700, works fine, but makes low working noise, lights up, marbleized burgundy plastic casing and cream plastic digits, 5 1/2" x 5" x 3 1/2", very good condition, casing and crystal has some scratches and wear, small split on the crystal plastic around the light on/off switch for the light,  these are not uncommon, but they are in great demand    #25313    $85.00
 

VINTAGE (probably Victorian) RED BEADED PURSE, with single black bead deliberately sewed into the purse on each side leading me to believe it may be a native American trade piece, but I  do not know much about that area of knowledge, 5 1/2" wide, 8 " long, 9' long including the fringe, red gabardine hand-sewn interior lining, cord pull string, fine condition with 2 strands of the fringe missing and some minor damage to the main part of the purse (I believe all the beads are there), the cord seems to have faded since it is now almost brown    #FS15253    $85.00    NOW $70.00
 

1905 PRETTY PRIMER BOOK with CHROMOLITHOGRAPH COVER OF CHILDREN PLAYING WITH DOG AND DOLL, W. B. Conkey Company, Chicago, earlier reader with little stories about things young people like, lots of small illustrations in the form of low-quality engravings, black and white only; lots of dogs illustrations including Pugs, Saint Bernards, Spaniels, Terriers and a Collie; 32 unpaginated pages, 7 1/2" x 9 3/4", good condition with significant wear on the corners and edges of the covers, some minor scratches and soiling on the covers,  the first 10 pages (5 sheets) have small tears, the original owner wrote name and date in pencil inside the cover, some discoloration on the inside of the covers from the glue used for binding     #SP29434    $36.00 

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SUNSHINE AND SHADOW IN NEW YORK, by M. H. Smith, Publisher: Hartford, 1869; no dust jacket as issued, brown leather with black spine panels with gold printing, 718 pp. plus ads and 12 reproduced full-page engraving illustrations, On N.Y.C. society, parties, important people (e.g. John Jacob Astor, Horace Greeley, P. T.  Barnum, Vanderbilt), crime, police force, corruption, prison, newspapers, religions ( Roman  Catholics, Jews, Methodists) the Bowery,  theaters (seems NY was no place for 1st class actors or drama at the time), poverty important merchants, clergy, Wall Street, churches, author gives important (and often amusing and unamusing) glimpses of Victorian values and mores with his comments on all, very good condition with strong spine, general wear on the cover as well as more wear on the edges and corners, pages are clean and in super condition except for a considerable amount of foxing, one tear on one of the end pages    #8949    $75.00
 

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LITTLE BITTY RAINDROP, by PEGGY USHER, illustrated by Marguerite Hanson, children's book, Tell-a-Tale Books, Whitman Publishing Co., 1958, 31 pp, unpaginated, hardcover, 5 1/2" x 6 1/2", very good condition with some wear on the edges, corners and spine, crayon on the inside of the covers, previous owner's name in ink (childish scrawl) on the front endpage, some mild soiling to pages here and there    #BK30057  $65.00 

VERY KITSCH PLASTIC STATUE OF LIBERTY, probably from the 1950's - 1960's but possibly from as early as the 1930's, about 8 3/4" high, near mint condition    #29001    $18.00

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" the  Rains Came ... and then FLOODS!", 1949 PREVENT FOREST FIRES POSTER, U. S Department of Agriculture, 12 3/4" x 18", has been folded; the left side is there it just did not fit in my scanner, very good condition, crisp, tack holes in each corner, some crinkling around the center fold    #FA30200    $28.00....

VERY RETRO COLORFUL 1960's PLASTIC "LOVE" WALL HANGING, all of the "e" is there - it just did not all fit on my scanner, about 18" x 11", very good condition, the bottom serif on the "L" is fragile    #HPY30069    $18.00

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