65.00 USD

Our Chinese Ally published by the American Historical Association for the U.S. War Department was designed to introduce the American soldier to China, its culture, and evolving political system.

Published in 1944, this vintage military booklet gives an interesting insight into the U.S. government's attitude towards China during World War II before the Cold War turned the tide of propaganda against Communism. The pamphlet gives an overview of Chinese history and China's involvement in World War II.


Our Chinese Ally
War Department Education Manual Em 42
G.I. Roundtable Series
American Historical Association, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944
61 Pages
7 1/4 inches x 5 inches

This is a genuine vintage military pamphlet from 1944 not a reproduction. The booklet shows wear and the passage of time. There is noticeable wear along the stapled binding and around the edges of the back and front covers. The back cover has a crease on the page-edge side. There is soiling on the tips of the bottom page-edge corners from the centerfold through the end of the pamphlet.

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75.00 USD

This trio of vintage laboratory glass bottles would look great on display by themselves or as part of larger grouping of chemistry glass.


I gave the bottles a light cleaning, preserving the patina of age. The bottles have residue and soiling inside. Should you prefer, you could certainly give them deep cleaning and remove the labels.

The smallest bottle does not have a stopper. It is marked " T.C.W. Co. U.S.A. 4" on the bottom. The medium-size bottle has the number "91" on the front of it, a glass stopper, and is marked "Wheaton USA" on the bottom. The largest bottle has a glass stopper marked "Pyrex 24." The stopper is chipped around the base that inserts into the bottle. The bottle is marked "Trade Mark F-8 Pyrex R Made in U.S.A." on the bottom.

Large Bottle: 8 1/4" tall including stopper, 3 1/4" base diameter
Medium Bottle: 6" tall including stopper, 2 1/2" base diameter
Small Bottle: 5 3/4" tall, 2 1/2" base diameter.

These bottles are part of a collection I recently acquired from a chemist who worked for Fritzsche, a company that made essential oils and chemicals for the perfume industry, back in the 1960s.


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30.00 USD

Adorable miniature book with a cool tartan plaid cover will help you brush up your knowledge of all things Scottish.

Published by Gordon Irving & H.B. Langman & Co.Ltd., this small vintage book has gold gilt edges, black & white photographs, and illustrations. Would make a great gift for the Scottish enthusiast.

The book is in very good vintage condition.

Brush Up Your Scotland!
A Tourist's Eye Guide to Who's Who and What's What in The Land of Auld Lang Syne
by Gordon Irving
H.B. Langman & Co. Ltd, Glasgow & London, 1972
192 Pages
4 1/8 inches x 2 1/2 inches

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15.95 USD

Unique Valentine's Day Gift Idea!

Genuine vintage movie handbill flyer for Warner Bros's 1945 World War II romance Too Young to Know featuring Joan Leslie and Robert Hutton is a charming piece of old movie memorabilia. Suitable for framing, the old lithograph flyer can be used as decor in a retro-themed movie theater or home movie room.

The vintage lithograph flyer is back printed with ads for movie theaters and films including:
I See A Dark Stranger starring Deborah Kerr & Trevor Howard
Africa Speaks - billed as "The strangest romance ever filmed"
Black Angel starring Dan Duryea, June Vincent, & Peter Lorre
Meet Me on Broadway starring Marjorie Reynolds, Fred Brady
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman starring Johnny Weissmuller

Printed on heavy-weight newsprint paper, the flyer is in good condition for its age showing typical wear around the edges. The flyer has two punch holes along on the right side indicating that it was once stored in a binder.

This is an original movie handbill, not a reproduction. The flyer is marked in very fine print at the bottom "Continental Litho Corp Cleveland Ohio Made in U.S.A," along with credits for the movie, and "A Warner Bros. First National Picture."

Measures approximately 11 1/2 inches by 8 3/4 inches.

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7.95 USD

Vintage Valentine's Day card from a secret admirer. The sender included a charming cryptic message. Very sweet! It's not clear if the "clew" misspelling is intentional or not (see photos 2 & 5). Doesn't matter, really, just adds to the mystery.

4 1/4" x 5 1/4"
In very good, used vintage condition.
Marked "Rust Craft Boston, U.S.A." and 1948 in Roman Numerals--MCMXLVIII

Listing includes an envelope that is not original to the greeting card.



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12.95 USD

Very cool, a little strange, and certainly kitsch, sitting and waving vintage Santa Claus salt & pepper shakers will welcome your Christmas guests to your holiday table.

No markings, but I did some research and traced these Santas to Japan circa 1950s. They are in very good vintage condition, no cracks or chips. Cork stoppers are intact.

Would make a super holiday hostess gift!

3" Tall x 2 1/8" Wide


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18.95 USD

Let this Howard Holt driving Santa candlestick holder light the way on your holiday table. Add a candle to this vintage Japan ceramic Christmas decoration for a festive display.

Bottom is marked "1959 Howard Holt."

The candle holder has some paint loss on Santa's hat, costume, and car. No cracks. No chips. No crazing. Please see photographs for more information about condition.

Measurements: 3 1/8" x 2" x 3 1/8"; Candle hole measures 7/8"


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9.95 USD

This vintage navy blue clip-on Superba Clipper necktie reminds me of the standard issue Catholic school ties worn in the 1960s by the boys attending the local parochial school in my town.

Super cool and retro, this full-size mens necktie is made out of Dacron Polyester. The vintage textile has a great textural tone-on-tone design.


Superba Clipper label by Superba Cravats
100% Dacron Polyester
16 1/2' Long
3 3/4" at its widest point

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15.95 USD

The Merry Muses strikes a very different chord than Robert Burns's famous poem Auld Lang Syne. From his "private collection of high-kilted folk poems," this book of bawdy verse was first published in 1827, and according to Burns is "not for maids, ministers or striplings." This City Light Press edition, published in 1962, is in very good vintage condition.

The Merry Muses, Robert Burns' private collection of high-kilted folk poems
City Light Books, 1962
40 Pages
Stapled Binding
7" x 5"



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65.00 USD

Trick See Art!

Rare Harry C. Bjorklund book!

Trick See Art by the 1930s chalk talk art master Harry C. Bjorklund will teach you how to draw awesome comic cartoon figures.

This is a genuine original publication from the 1930s not a reproduction.
The large-format softcover book is in good condition for its age showing wear around the edges, light soiling, creasing, a tear at the base of the cover, tanning pages.


Trick-See-Art A New Kind of Fun! by Harry C. Bjorklund
Novelty Research Artists, Minneapolis
Circa 1939
47 Pages
11 3/4 inches by 8 1/2 inches
Stapled Binding

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18.95 USD

Daily Maxims A Birthday Text-Book of Proverbs and Wise Sayings is a charming miniature antique book with an inspirational quote for each day of the year.

Designed for the owner to keep track of birthdays, the small vintage book has the days of the year on one side with a blank spaces for names on the other. Each page has a lovely border design.

The book can be used as intended or as a journal.

This is an antique book from the 1800s. It shows typical wear with light soiling and spotting on the cover, tanning paper, a small chip on the cover on the back just behind the spine, some light crumbling at the bottom of a few pages. The pages are clean. The book has not been used as intended and has no markings other than an inscription on the front endpaper " Best Wishes, Fred Norton."


Daily Maxims A Birthday Text-Book of Proverbs and Wise Sayings
Selected from Various Sources
Dodge Publishing Company, New York
Circa 1890s
Undated, 127 Pages
Approximately 4 1/4 inches by 3 1/2

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18.95 USD

Nayco Butter and Cookie Print with its original instruction label is constructed entirely from wood. The wooden stamp can be used to imprint designs on butter or cookies. The tag instructs you on how to use the vintage kitchen devise.

The small wood butter mold has a wheat design, the perfect detail for your Thanksgiving feast or fancy dinner party.

The butter & cookie mold would also look great as part of a country kitchen display.

Measures approximately 2 3/4" tall when not in use. Plugger handle extends approximately 1" when operated. The wheat stamp measures approximately 1 1/4."

The stamp does not look like it was ever used. It has a nice patina of age from being displayed on a kitchen shelf for many years.

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15.95 USD

Vintage photography studio wedding party portrait provides wonderful insight into 1920s fashion and style. Big beautiful rose bouquets for the attendants, fabulous calla lily flowers for the bride, and lovely lace gowns, clues that this must have been a very upscale celebration.

The portrait is mounted in a gray heavy card-stock presentation folder with amazing silver-leaf border detail. The folder is marked "Adamoff, 74 Market St, Passaic, N.J." Top left-hand corner of the folder is bumped, but otherwise the cover and photograph are in amazing condition for their age.

10 1/4" x 11 1/14"


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45.00 USD

Jess Stearn, a sceptic reporter, was totally transformed in body and soul after a four month regimen of yoga and mediation. Written way back in 1965 before yoga became mainstream in America, this is an insightful and collectable book.

This is a scarce first edition copy of Stearn's yoga instruction book published in 1965. The vintage book is in good condition. The dust jacket is bright with noticeable wear around the edges including small tears and some paper loss. Bottom of the spine shows wear. Small black mark on the bottom page edges. Pages are clean.

Yoga, Youth, and Reincarnation by Jess Stearn
Includes Black & White Photographs by Frank Stork of Marcia Moore in Yoga Postures
Illustrated with line drawings
Doubleday & Company, Inc, New York, 1965
392 Pages
8 1/2" x 5 3/4"

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48.00 USD

Vintage mid-century modern glassware by Libbey have a simple and sleek cut glass design. These beautiful tumbler glasses will fit into any decor from modern, to contemporary, traditional, to minimal.

Set includes four (4) glasses. The glasses are marked on the bottom with the Libbey "L," and are in very good condition. No chips. No cracks.

The glasses have a nice heft to them.

Libbey Windswept
8 oz. Capacity
4 1/4" Tall
3" Top Diameter


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18.95 USD

Akro Agate miniature slag glass flower pot is simply adorable. Known as a thumb pot, Akro made these flower pots in 1930s in various colors. This pot is made out of white & green swirled glass.

The flower pot is in good vintage condition. It has a few manufacturing flaws, a slightly protruding translucent edge left behind from the glass mold (see photograph 2), but no chips or cracks.

The pot is marked on the bottom with the Akro symbol and "Made in U.S.A."

This tiny flower pot is 2 1/2" tall with a 1 1/2" bottom diameter.

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48.00 USD

Impressive tall green glass vase has a dramatic black parrot & floral transfer design reminiscent of silver overlay designs found on glass Rockwell vases of the Art Deco period. This is a beautiful and unusual vintage vase.

I'm not sure exactly when this vase was made, as it does not have a markers mark, but its styling and manufacturing clues indicate that is was most likely made in the 1930s - 1940s.

The glass is not actually green. It has a paint transfer coating giving it the effect of cased glass. There are seams on each side of the green paint transfer but the seams are not evident inside the vase.

The vase shows wear including scratches, paint loss, and soiling.

Approximately 10" tall, 5" at its widest point, 3" base diameter.

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19.95 USD

From its delightful decorative cover to its action-packed tales of adventure in the American West, this antique copy of G.A. Henty's Captain Bayley's Heir is an old-fashion good read.

The graphic cover of a rider on a horse would look great on display in a library or child's room.

Captain Bayley's Heir, A Tale of The Gold Fields of California
G.A. Henty
Blackie & Son, Limited, London and Glasgow
Undated, Circa 1910
Illustrated
384 Pages plus two pages of publisher's advertising
7 1/2 inches x 5 1/2 inches

This is a genuine antique book not a reprint. The book is over 100-years old and shows the passage of time and evidence of having been read and enjoyed over the years. The cover is worn at the edges particularly at the top and base of the spine, with some fraying and chipping. The corners are bumped and the boards have worn through. The cover and spine graphics are in good condition and show well. The cover has some soiling. The back of the cover shows some fading. Pages are tanned with age.

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58.00 USD

This circa 1900 copy of Jules Verne's Among the Cannibals includes The Mysterious Document and On The Track which together are an English translation of Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant. An illustrated edition of this Verne work, the book has green cloth covered boards, a graphic cover with gold gilt lettering, and chapter title drawings by Henry Austin.

The cover has noticeable wear particularly on the top and base of the spine including some loss and chipping. The pages are tanned with age.

I've noted an irregularity in the pagination of the book. Each story in the volume begins with an unpaginated page and then the next page is numbered "10" instead of "2."

In the Among The Cannibals section the chapter illustration and the first page (the unpaginated page and page 10) are detached from the book. Pages 10, 11, and 12 have residue of tape at the tops and bottom (see photograph four).

Originally published in France as Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant, this set of stories was then published in England by George Routledge and Sons as a three volume set titled A Voyage Around the World. It has also been published in English as In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant.

Among the Cannibals containing "The Mysterious Document," "On The Track," and "Among The Cannibals."
by Jules Verne
Illustrated by Henry Austin
Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, London
Undated, Circa 1900
Publisher's booklist advertising pages at back

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38.00 USD

New old stock vintage Esterbrook Penesco No 509 Medium stub italic calligraphy dip point pen nibs are a rare find. Made in Camden, New Jersey, there are 144 (a gross) steel pen nibs in each box.

Each box offered in this listing is in excellent unused vintage condition and has never been opened. Some of the box seals are intact, some of them are beginning to break.

This listing is for one box of vintage Esterbrook Penesco No 509 Medium Stub nibs. The slide-open box design and the Penesco tag dates the manufacturing of these nibs to the 1940s.


Box measures 2 1/4" x 1 3/4" x 1 1/8"



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