6 Broom Labels - $15.00
Authentic REPRODUCTIONS of Antique French Documents/Letters
This packet contains 7 pieces of uniquely different reproductions of authentic antique French documents/letters dating primarily from the mid to late 1800s with one from 1919. We dug into our personal stash of super cool ephemera and came up with WOW antique French documents/letters just for all of you to use - we think they are wonderful and have used them in our own personal artwork in the past, but we wanted to share!
These documents are perfect for your altered art, altered books, collages on canvas, ATCs, etc., etc. Tear and age them even more, use acrylic washes or glazes on top of them... whatever you can think of! These will look wonderful in any of your artwork and will be so much fun to play with!!
Have fun CREATING ART!
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7 Piece Packet - $7.00
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Click the links below to view samples of the images contained on our
Authentic REPRODUCTIONS of Antique French Documents/Letters
Sample 1 Sample 2
Railroad Ephemera Packet
This packet of 4 pieces of RARE and interesting Railroad Ephemera consists of the following:
One (1) page from the 1918 1st Edition of the American Railway Express Co. Official Directory of Express Stations (primarily schedules for trains throughout the U.S). The American Railway Express Agency was the cargo company of choice in its days. After the consolidation of express companies during WWI, the American Railway Express Agency was the only express company in the U.S. In 1927 the name was changed to Railway Express Agency (REA). In return for a monopoly on the movement of traffic on passenger trains, the express company was obligated to accept any and all shipments destined anywhere in the U.S. The REA handled carloads of cattle, race horses, and trainloads of fruits and vegetables. Carloads of radioactive material were moved on regular schedules for the Atomic Energy Commission. There was practically nothing that was not handled at one time or another by this company, including circus animals.
One (1) sheet - Railway Company Long Distance Telephone Call Memo Pad - Early 1900s
One (1) sheet - Sand Springs (OK) Railway Co. Shops Invoice (blank) - Early 1900s
One (1) sheet - Sand Springs (OK) Railway Co. Car Report (blank) - Early 1900s
The Sand Springs Railway Company was incorporated February 6, 1911 and operated approximately 8 miles of track from Sand Springs east to Tulsa. The railroad was operated by electricity until 1955 when it discontinued passenger service and changed over to diesel locomotives.
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4 Piece Packet - $2.50
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Etude Music Sheets are Back!
Hooray!!
We've finally managed to find another great stack of vintage Etude Magazine sheets of music for you! These music sheets were soooo popular that we have been on a frantic search to find more for you, our fantastic customers! Sure enough, in the most unlikely place, we found some! So here you are!!!!!
The Etude Music Magazine premiered in October of 1883, published by the Theodore Presser company It was continuously published for almost 100 years, ending its incredible run in 1954 after serving millions of musicians. Each month, Etude magazine published from fifteen to twenty or more scores of piano etudes, grand master's works and songs from contemporary composers and the masters. The songs published in the Etude, though musically of very high quality were often quite different from the popular songs being published. In many cases, they are more classical in form and require higher levels of pianistic and vocal skills.
If you would like to have 2 pages of Etude Advertising (shown below on the right) added to your Etude Music Sheet order for only an additional $1.00, please use the $3.00 "I Want It" button below the ad picture.
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5 Music Sheet Pages - $2.00
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5 Music Sheet Pages
AND Extra 2 Ad Pages - $3.00
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3 Metal Milk Bottle Caps - $4.00
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Vintage Paper Milk Bottle Top Caps 1
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Set of 5 Milk Bottle Top Caps for $3.00
(Assorted Brand Names)
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For your "altering" pleasure, we are offering a set of 5 milk bottle top caps from the days when milk came in bottles with card tops (hard to believe that there actually used to be a milkman who delivered milk to your door and the milk was in a real glass bottle!). Just a bit of dairy ephemera that we hope you will find tons of creative was to create ART with!
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5 Paper Caps - $3.00
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3 Labels - $1.00
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Vintage Metal Hair Curler Thingies!
Oh the torture our grandmother's must have gone through to be beautiful as they twisted their long locks around these curlers in order to have lovely ringlets!!! OUCH! But, for us these charming little hair curlers would be great to hang doodads from, used as connectors, hanging off of an assemblage, twisted with ribbons/fibers - OH MY, so many ideas - my creative mind is whirling!!!
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3 Curlers - $3.00
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Authentic Bakelite Mahjong Tiles
2 for $5.00
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Authentic Bakelite Dominoes
$2.50 Each Tile
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Fabric Amalgamated Workers of America
Clothing tags (1949)
The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America was formed in 1914 as a direct result of a bitter union strike in 1910 involving members of the AFL affiliated United Garment Workers (UGW), the AFL leadership, and their employer, Hart Schaffner and Marx. By the 1920's, ACWA was the largest men's clothing union in the United States and was responsible for manufacturing a staggering 85% of men's garment.
The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America continued to grow through the 1950's and remained a dominant union in the manufacturer of men' suit through the 1960's and early 1970's. In 1976 it ended 62 year of organizing labor under the name Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America when it merged with the Textile Workers of America and formed a new union known as the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU).
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5 ACTWU Tags - $2.50
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Antique Player Piano Rolls/Box
We know that your imagination will go crazy with these wonderful antique player piano rolls! You can use them as they are in scroll (rolled up) form to embellish and then unwind, tear/cut them into pieces of ephemera for just about any of your art projects, use as pages in your altered books, utilize the performations as peek-a-boo slits, AND THEN use the box as an assemblage! What terrific fun these little pieces of Victorian memorabilia are!!
Simply described, a player piano is a self-playing piano. A piano roll is a roll of paper with perforations (holes) punched in it. The position and length of the perforation determines the note played on the piano.
Beginning around 1900 and continuing for the next three decades, for the first time in history, music could be heard on demand. The player piano was like a jukebox; its "discs" were the paper piano rolls. The unique player, however, did not use speakers or electricity; it actually played itself using air pressure-- hammers struck the strings, strings vibrated and wood resonated.
The music recorded on the player piano roll reflected the changing social fabric of the day--the end of Victorian convention and the beginning of the uninhibited modern thinking and free-spending practices of the twentieth century.
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1 Box with Piano Roll - $5.00
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Samba/Canasta Score Cards
In the 1950s, many housewives enjoyed afternoons together playing card games such as Canasta and Samba. These vintage score sheets would look great in your Retro collage art pieces! Of course, you will think of tons of ways to use them - stamp on them, fill with journaling, tear them, age them, make book pages out of them....
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10 cards - $1.00
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Washington Run Railroad Co. Receipts
Early 1900s per diem receipts from the Washington Run Railroad which operated about 5 miles of track between Star Junction PA and Layton PA. This line connected to the main Pittsburgh and Lake Erie tracks at Layton PA. These unusual and hard to find receipts measure approximately 8 1/2" x 4"
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2 Receipts - $1.25
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Ephemera Bags
Large Asian Ephemera Bags
Asian Ephemera Bags Front Asian Ephemera Bags Back
$16.00 per Bag
The Divas D'Este Asian Ephemera Bags are a potpourri of all things Asian for the collage artist's delight! The bags
include such items as: Miscellaneous decorative Joss and spirit papers, ephemera, golden-leaved envelopes, spirit money, wooden chopsticks, Asian Lotto Card + 6 wooden Lotto numbers,
a simulated Asian coin, a 26-piece sticker alphabet (in an Asian font), PLUS 2 (two) UNIQUE Collage Sheets (not offered in our collage sheet collection).
One features geishas and the other, Asian Ephemera (Click links below to see them.) This bag will provide you with endless possibilities for creating an Asian Theme in your altered books, ATCs, collage art, assemblages, etc., etc.!
Asian Collage Sheet 1 Asian Collage Sheet 2
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Large Ephemera Grab Bags
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$19.00 per Bag
We promise you will be thrilled with the NEW Divas D'Este Large Ephemera Grab Bags. They offer wonderful selections of vintage & antique ephemera. All grab bags include items such as: Text pages in English, French, Latin, Spanish, Asian,
(Chinese/Japanese) ...maps..an old air mail envelope, early 1900s Women's magazine pages, sheet music, yearbook pages, dictionary page, miscellaneous antique text, old prescriptions,
postcards, birthday cards, vintage wrapping paper...In fact, you'll receive almost everything you could want to use in your altered books, ATCs, collage art, assemblages, and whatever else your artistic minds can dream up!
"Recently, a customer informed us that she was thrilled with her purchase of our Large Ephemera Grab Bag! She exclaimed, "I love it, I can't believe it doesn't contain any fluff!
I will be back for more!"
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Large Gamers Grab Bags
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$8.00 per Bag
For you dedicated game lovers, check out our Large Gamers Grab Bag! This bag is packed full of a fun collection of unique game pieces, such as:
a vintage Bingo card, a giant playing card, Gin Rummy score card page, vintage Contract Bridge book pages, tickets, Monopoly card, vintage Old Maid card PLUS a large ivory domino, Scrabble letters, play money, a die, miscellaneous game pieces, pickup sticks, etc..
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Small Gamers Grab Bags
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$4.00 per Bag
Wow! What a great little package of goodies! Approximately 25 game piece items to use as embellishments in your altered books, ATCs, collage art, assemblages, etc., etc.! Each Small Gamers Grab Bag includes items such as: An assortment of letter and number game pieces, chess pieces, poker chips, triomino, large ivory domino, wooden lotto piece, play money, and miscellaneous cards.
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Brass Findings
12 Assorted BRASS FINDINGS for your assemblages, altered books,
collage art, etc. These will add that special 3-dimensional
aspect to your ART! It's the BLING!!
Findings #1
12 pieces for $9.99
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Findings #2
12 pieces for $9.99
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Findings #3
12 pieces for $9.99
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Findings #4
12 pieces for $9.99
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Findings #5
12 pieces for $9.99
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Found "Objects"
A potpourri of unusual found objects to add to your artwork, assemblages,
altered books... the possibilities are limitless for all you creative artists!
Bag of Assorted "Objects" - $11.99
(ONE bag for now, MORE to follow!)
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Spanish Vocabulary Cards
5 Cards - $1.00
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Assorted Coin Holders
8 Coin Holders - $1.25
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Antique German Scripture Cards
(Leucht Sterne, meaning Luminous Stars)
These are our MYSTERY items!!!
We know they are old, but not how old; we know that they are unusual
Because we have never seen them before and can't find out anything about them - which makes
them kind of neat, eh what???). We DON'T know what they say or what they were used
for - so if anyone knows, please e-mail us!!! You can tell that they are scriptural because they have a Bible
book and verse, e.g., Job 2, 25 on them. We just thought that they were so unusual that we wanted to share with you.
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5 Cards - $1.50
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Assorted Vintage Tickets
Eight (8) assorted vintage tickets from all over the place!
Everyone loves tickets for their altered art projects, ATCs, tags, etc.,
so we are offering a potpourri bag of tickets (you'll just get what
we grab out of the bag, but we know you'll have a great time playing with them!).
Bag of 8 Tickets - $3.00
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The New York Ledger Newspapers
Grab a piece of New York History!! In our recent travels through the highways/byways looking for treasures for all of our lovely artistic customers, we hit the jackpot and found and purchased a WONDERFUL stack of 25 New York Ledger Newspaper/Magazines ALL dated in the EARLY 1890s!!! Each newspaper contains 16 pages (front/back included in the count.)
The New York Ledger was a weekly story paper published in New York City. It was established in 1856 by Robert Bonner. The date of the Last Issue was 1898. The banner on each front piece reads "A journal of choice literature, romance, and useful information." Each newspaper contains one (1) large black and white image on the front, a full page of ads on the back, and anywhere from 2 to 6 black and white images on the internal pages. The pages are filled with many great stories - which translates to LOTS of great text for you to use in your artwork! The pages are oversized, measuring approximately 16" x 11" (length/width). As you might expect, the pages are yellowed with age and some have a few stain marks here and there (but that just leaves less "aging" that you have to do!!!). We think they are absolutely FABULOUS!!
Please allow us to pick one out for you, as there are too many to scan.
The pictures below are SAMPLES ONLY (this may not be the one you get). Click on samples to enlarge |
Sample 1
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The New York Ledger - $18.00 each
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(Only 23 of 25 Newspapers Currently Available for Sale)
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