Victorian Mourning Print by Kellogg & Comstock | 1840These wonderful Victorian mourning prints are getting scarcer and scarcer. I can count the number I find in a single year on one hand now, and Im ALWAYS looking. Even scarcer are early examples and scarcer still ones that are NOT Currier & Ives: This one is dated 1840 and manufactured by competitors Kellogg & Comstock. Beautifully presented in its original lemon gold frame. Condition is excellent save for some slight chipping to the glaze on the frame.

but if you walked into a ballroom in the 1860s

Civil War era sewing box with a beautiful lithographed lid

Vintage art nouveau revival belt buckle in the shape of a butterfly with a snake

Midcentury vintage santos crown meant for a large chalkware statue of the Infant of Prague or a saint

one of over 50 cover designs he illustrated during his 8 years at Doubleday Anchor

which itself comes from the Tarot de Marseille

The back is plain & the two covers are separated: I put this in a frame without glass if I were keeping it

Quite heavy

and some other accessory I’m not sure about

One of the more unusual sacred heart embroideries I’ve come across

The card depicts Saint Philip

I am ready to move it on to make room for new acquisitions