Inventory for Miss Mary's Emporium

American Vernacular: New Discoveries in Folk Self-Taught and

Price: $25.00
Category: Nonfiction Books
Priced to SELL Original publishers price was $75.00 This is a wonderful book, full of detailed photographs of the most curious examples of American folk art you'll find. This is a remainder it is new, shrink wrapped from the publisher there is a...

Pre-Historic Times Modern Savages 1892 Illustrated Sir John

Price: $25.00
Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
Full title: PreHistoric Times as Illustrated by Ancient Remains and Customs of Modern Savages. Author: The Rt. Hon. Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., Principal of the London Working Men's College President of the London Chamber of Commerce and Chair...

Victorian Man in the Moon Mirror

Price: $7.00
Category: Hand Mirrors
Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.Mark TwainA charming Victorian Man in the Moon image adorns this 3 12 round mirror. You may be able to hide your dark side from the world, but the mirror knows allComes compl...

Vintage Paper Bargain Box Antique Photos Postcards Greeting

Price: $20.00
Category: Scrapbooking Paper & Pages
A nice assortment of vintage paper items to give your next collage, altered art, or scrapbooking project authentic vintage flair This is a vintage box of greeting cards from the late 1950s. A good many of the original, unused greeting cards remai...

Victorian Diecut Photo Mats Beautiful Reproduction Set of 5

Price: $10.00
This is a set of five different mats, two large and three small.They have openings for your photograph or artwork to show through, with gold metallic details. The 2 large mats are 8x10 inches, with an opening of about 3.5x 4.5 inches. The three ...

Gift Tin 30 Vintage Birds Pinback Button Set

Price: $23.00
Category: Animals
A perfect gift for the bird lover, or adorn yourself with this set of 30 1inch pinback buttons featuring vintage bird illustrations. Buttons are handpressed by me, you won't find this unique assortment anywhere else. 1inch size with a pin on the...

Some Poems That Ring Hugh Porter Guerrant

Price: $35.00
Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
Some Poems that Ring by Hugh Porter Guerrant If you are into obscure Christian poetry, have I got a book for you This is a curious vintage volume of poetry. I have not been able to learn much about the author or this book, and so I suspect that ...

Bag of Loose Red Glass Beads

Price: $6.00
Category: Czech, Glass
A nice assortment of older red glass beads, various smaller shapes and sizes in shades of red. I'm thinking these are circa 19601970. Interesting shape. Vintage, dusty from storage, some will have imperfections due to their being handmade, proba...

Bag of Red Glass Beads

Price: $5.00
Category: Czech, Glass
A bag of older red beads in various shapes and shades of red. Pressed glass shapes with hole drilled through the top red ceramic teardrop older plastic fluted sphere, and other loose red beads. Beads seem to have been hand manufactured, some imp...

Phrenology Head Hand Mirror

Price: $7.00
Category: Hand Mirrors
3 12inch hand mirror featuring a colorful 19th century Phrenology head illustration from an antique medical book. The background is an old marbled paper pattern from one of the antique books that I collect. The mirror is handmade by me, using qu...

Eve, the Apple and the Serpent Hand Mirror from 19th Century

Price: $7.00
Category: Hand Mirrors
The image on this hand mirror is adapted from a Victorianera French trade card from my collection of Victorian ephemera.Eve, looking quite like a 1960s flower child, gives a longing look at the forbidding fruit, while the Serpent looks on. My Fre...

Vintage Death Head Moth Hand Mirror

Price: $7.00
Category: Hand Mirrors
This 3 12 inch mirror is handpressed by me, and features artwork from an antique natural history illustration depicting Moths of Great Britain. A black velveteen bag is included for storage. The lovely and mysterious Death's Head Moth is surroun...

Classic Cross-Stitch Magazine April-May 1989

Price: $2.00
Category: Cross Stitch Magazines
Designs for graduation, wedding and Mother's day. Collectors series Little Boy Blue, metallic threads in monograms, and religious symbols in cross stitch are a few of the patterns to be found in this issue of Classic CrossStitch magazine. Magazi...

Dishes Children Love Vintage Cook Booklet Culinary Arts Ins

Price: $5.00
Category: Cookbooks
Aw, how cute This is a vintage copy of Dishes Children Love, by the Staff Home Economists of the Culinary Arts Institute. 1954. 264 favorite recipes, illustrated with darling retro images and full of curious foods for children of all ages. Temp...

Dining Delights Vintage French's Cook Booklet 1948

Price: $6.00
Category: Cookbooks
Antique Vintage booklet, Dining Delights, copyright 1948, the R. T. French Co. Neat recipe booklet published by French's to show off their spices, cooking and baking seasonings. Neat bit of old kitchen ephemera, booklet is in good condition. Wea...

Cross Quick Premier Issue Easy Projects for Cross Stitch Lov

Price: $5.00
Category: Cross Stitch Magazines
This is a nice copy of the premier issue of Cross Quick, Easy Projects for CrossStitch Lovers. This issue features a patriotic bear sampler, cute baby bib designs, and adorable rabbit wall clock design. Good condition, has been stored well in a ...

Cross Quick Magazine April-May 89 Charts for Cat Log Cabin S

Price: $3.00
Category: Cross Stitch Magazines
Nice issue of Cross Quick Magazine, Easy Projects for Cross Stitch Lovers. AprilMay 1989 Good condition, no marked pages, cover and page edges slightly discolored from age. Has been stored well in a nonsmoking home.

Vanessa Ann Collection 1990 Cross Stitch Calendar

Price: $5.00
Category: Holidays & Occasions
Nice copy of The VanessaAnn Collection 1990 Calendar, no marks. 12 seasonal cross stitch designs, one for each month. Good condition, no marks. This was my copy, it's been in storage smoke free home. The varnish on the covers seems to have yellow...

Vintage Medical Ephemera Books Schering Male and Femal Sex H

Price: $4.00
Category: Pharmaceutical
Set of three hardbound clinical guides by The Medical Research Division of Schering. 1. Clinical Guide to Male Sex Hormone Therapy, first edition,, The Schering Corporation, 1941. 2: Female Sex Hormone Therapy, 8th revised edition, same as above...

Assorted Vintage Beads Pastel Pink Blue Green White

Price: $8.00
Category: Beads
Nice assortment of vintage beads. White, pearlescent faceted beads, spotted green ceramic beads, blue glass beads, an old crystal bead, and others. Beads from the 1950s1970s, could use a little cleaning.

Bag of Beads Shell and Round Wood Beads with Bone Inlay

Price: $5.00
Category: Beads, Pearls & Charms
Bag of beads ready to string, a nice pairing of boneinlaid wood polkadot beads, and pretty, long and wiggly shells. Baroque shell beads have hole drilled at the top, bone beads drilled through the center.

Shades of Red Assorted Glass Beads

Price: $6.00
Category: Beads & Jewelry Making
Over a pound of red glass beads, assorted sizes, shapes and shades of red. Probably handmade in India, beads have variations. Not sure of age, but these are not new, I'm thinking 1960s1970s, but it is hard to tell. The colors of the beads are br...

Heraldic Lions Pinback Buttons Six Pack

Price: $6.00
Category: Pinbacks, Bobbles, Lunchboxes
A six pack of heraldic lions from a Victorian book on heraldry. Popular small 1inch pinback button size, packaged in a mylar bag with hangtag.

Cross Quick Christmas Cross Stich Ornaments Santas Magazine

Price: $3.00
Category: Cross Stitch Magazines
Cross Quick Magazine: Easy Projects for CrossStitch Lovers. DecemberJanuary 1990 issue. Designs include charming Winter Birds, Antique Autos, Floral Blessings, Christmas ornaments and gifts, foxglove design and more. Good vintage condition, edge...

The Chinese Nail Murders Robert van Gulik Paperback Illustra

Price: $9.00
Category: Fiction Books
The Chinese Nail Murders, A New Judge Dee mystery by Robert van Gulik. Paperback, 192 pages. Copyright 1961, Avon Books. This is a good copy of The Chinese Nail Murders. Paperback, no loose pages, cover complete, some wear around the edges, old ...

Just Cross Stitch Danish Flowers Pansies Nature

Price: $3.00
Category: Cross Stitch Magazines
Just Cross Stitch Magazine, MarchApril 1986. Very good condition, from a nonsmoking home mine.

Santa on Owl Cross Stitch Pattern For the Love of Cross Stit

Price: $3.00
Category: Cross Stitch Magazines
For the Love of Cross Stitch Magazine January 1992 22 Projects, including Nutcracker Noel, Angels Unawares Sampler, OldTime Locomotive, Floral Sweater, and the great cover project, a little elflike Santa riding a snowy owl. Gently used from a sm...

Old Greek Stories Antique Children's Book Illustrated

Price: $9.00
Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
Old Greek Stories, c. 1923, by James Baldwin. American Book Company. Illustrated. 208 pages. Hardback, no D.J., blue cloth with very nice twocolor illustration on front cover. Interior pages are very good, binding is worn around the edges, spine...

Fighting the Devil's Triple Demons

Price: $60.00
Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
Fighting the Devil's Triple Demons. Three Books in One Volume. Traffic in Innocent GirlsProtect your Sisters and Daughters. Rum's Ruinous Rule: Save Your Father's and Sons. The Sins of Society: Guard Your Homes and Honor. By Robert J. Moorehea...

It's a Wrap! Vintage Medical Images on Pinback Buttons

Price: $5.00
Category: Pinbacks, Bobbles, Lunchboxes
Set of 7 oneinch pinback buttons, featuring reproductions of vintage medical illustrations. I've handmade these buttons using steel parts and reproductions of prints from my personal collection of antique medical books. Perfect for nurses, docto...

Skull and Crossbone Pinback Buttons for Pirates

Price: $5.00
Category: Pinbacks, Bobbles, Lunchboxes
Celebrate your inner pirate with a set of four skull and crossbones badges. Oneinch, handmade with sturdy steel parts using reproductions of vintage prints.

Cleopatra Egyptian Revival Style Purse Mirror

Price: $7.00
Category: Hand Mirrors
This is a handmade 3 12 inch mirror featuring a lovely reproduction of a Victorian era illustration of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, in all her romanticized splendor. A little velveteen bag is included, so you can stash your mirror in your purse....

Personalized Victorian Canary Bird Mirror

Price: $7.00
Category: Hand Mirrors
The Canary Mary had a little bird, With feathers bright and yellow, Slender legsupon my word, He was a pretty fellowSweetest notes he always sung, Which much delighted Mary Often where his cage was hung, She sat to hear Canary.Crumbs of bread and...

Victorian Peacock Mirror

Price: $7.00
Category: Hand Mirrors
The peacock is sacred to Hera, Queen of the Greek Gods. It's plumage was said to represent the eyes of Argos, the watcher. This particular Peacock comes from a very large Victorian scrapbook diecutso large that I had to scan it in two sections A...

Vintage Book Robinson Crusoe Daniel DeFoe Illustrated

Price: $19.00
Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner, As Related by Himself. By Daniel DeFoe, illustrated by Noel Pocock. Hardcover, no DJ, Garden City Publishing Company, Inc. 352 pages. This is a nicely illustrated copy of the ...

Stained Glass Quilting Technique Craft Book Roberta Horton

Price: $5.00
Category: Quilting Books & Instruction
Excellent book describing techniques for creating stained glass quilts. StepbyStep procedures and ample illustrations show pictorially how the technique is accomplished. A fullsize pattern suitable for your first project is included, and several ...

Cross Stitch Sampler Collection Chat Book Susan Treglown

Price: $4.00
Category: Samplers
8 different sampler designs in all, a great value16 page softcover pattern book of sampler designs for cross stitch or needlepoint. Copyright 1983.Good condition, unmarked. Worn around the edges from sitting on a shelf. From my collectiionI've fin...

Large Antique Baby Portrait and Dapper Young Man

Price: $5.00
Category: Photographic Images
A large vintage portrait of a 7 mos. old baby girl and her dapper young brother. Each 6 x 9 photograph is mounted inside a 10 x 14 folder. Folders are fair, a bit scuffed and worn around the edges but they did a good job at protecting the antiqu...

Antique Photograph Victorian Men in Hats

Price: $5.00
Category: Photographic Images
Interesting antique photograph that appears to be a professional copy made in the 1920s. A group of men are milling about in front of a large garage or barn. They seem rather well dressed, wearing derbys or bowler hats. Photo is sepia toned, goo...

Pair of Antique Photographs Round Glasses Young Couple

Price: $5.00
Category: Photographic Images
Pair of antique photographs of young couples, perhaps newlyweds Check out the darling round glasses sported by the ladies.Sepia toned antique photographs in good condition, in their original presentation folders in fair condition. Fun instant ance...

Three Antique Photographs Pretty Young Girl

Price: $5.00
Category: Photographic Images
Three antique photographs of a young woman one pair is identical. The photographs are probably from around 19101925. Good condition, sepia toned and in their original cardboard folders poor. Instant ancestors, or to incorporate into your next mi...

Book Floras Feast A Fairys Festival of Flowers Walter Crane

Price: $5.00
Category: Children's Books
Beautifully illustrated Dover reprint of Flora's Feast: A Fairy's Festival of Flowers in Full Color. Penned and Pictured by Walter Crane. If you adore beautiful fantasy flower fairies, you'll love this book. Very good condition, an unabridged rep...

Sack of 48 Retro Halloween Pinback Buttons Party Pack

Price: $29.00
Category: Pinbacks, Bobbles, Lunchboxes
What could be more fun than a sack of Halloween buttons 48 1inch buttons, 4 each of 12 different retro Halloween designs, delivered to you in a free black velveteen drawstring bag. A perfect treat to hand out at the office or to use as Hallowee...

Horizon Spring 1976 Art History Archaeology Science

Price: $7.00
Category: Magazine Back Issues
Hardbound back issue of Horizon Magazine, Spring 1976. Had been sitting on a shelf for a few decades, edges have some shelfwear and yellow binding is slightly discolored on the spine and around the outer edges from sunlight exposure. Interior pag...

Horizon Autumn 1976 World Trade Tower Article

Price: $9.00
Category: Magazine Back Issues
Hardbound issue of Horizon Magazine, Autumn 1976. 112 pages, lavishly illustrated with photographs and period illustrations. Some shelfwear, white binding is discolored from exposure to the sun on spine and around edges. Interior is clean, comes ...

Horizon Winter 1976 Art History Architecture Photography Boo

Price: $7.00
Category: Magazine Back Issues
The Winter, 1976 issue of Horizon Magazine, a beautiful, illustrated hardbound magazine in very good condition. Interior pages are nice and bright, nearnew, while the cover is shelfworn and has some tanningcolor change around the edges and spine. ...

Horizon Autumn 1975 History Art Archaeology Magazine Book

Price: $7.00
Category: Magazine Back Issues
Hardbound back issue of Horizon Magazine, Autumn 1975. Very good condition From the library of an old Main Line estate. These oversized books make a great addition to the home library or as fodder for collage and alteredmixed media artists. Varie...

In Harmony with Nature Painting Techniques Book

Price: $30.00
Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
In Harmony with Nature by Maxine Masterfield. A must have book for the water color artist First Edition, copyright 1990. WatsonGuptill Publications. Hardback, 144 pages. This is a hardtofind 1st edition hardback in very good condition. DJ has s...

Victorian Crafts Scroll Saw Fret Saw Pattern Book CD

Price: $18.00
Category: Woodworking
FretSawing for Pleasure and Profit, or, How to use the FretSaw by an Old Amateur. A faithful digital copy of the original by Henry T. Williams, published in 1877 This is a new digital version of the hardtofind original that I am fortunate to own....

Free Bees Three Free Pinback Buttons with Purchase

Price: $0.00
Category: Pinbacks, Bobbles, Lunchboxes
FREE with any purchase from my booth. Trio of 1inch pinback buttons in my signature bee design. Why a bee Because B is my middle initial, of course

Unusual Pinback Buttons Victorian First Aid Bandages

Price: $6.00
Category: Pinbacks, Bobbles, Lunchboxes
Unusual set of seven novelty pinback buttons, designed using Victorian era medical illustrations from an old first aid book. Buttons are 1inch in size. Mix and match with other buttons from my booth to create a style all your own.

Victorian Santa Claus Pinback Buttons

Price: $5.00
Category: Pinbacks
Set of six oldfashioned pinback buttons for Christmas, featuring colorful Victorian era Santa Claus portraits.

1930s Style Pinback Buttons

Price: $5.00
Category: Pinbacks, Bobbles, Lunchboxes
This set of six wee 1 pinback buttons was inspired by the graphics and popular culture of the 1920s1930s. To find out when new buttons are added to my Bonanzle booth, sign up for my newsletter at: http:www.missmary.comnewsletter

Gothic Bats Pinback Buttons

Price: $5.00
Category: Pinbacks, Bobbles, Lunchboxes
Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at Up above the world you fly, Like a teatray in the sky. Lewis Carroll These bats appear to have too much attitude to be called twinkling, but perhaps they will charm you nonetheless. This i...

Set of 5 Colorful Victorian Clowns Pinback Buttons

Price: $5.00
Category: Pinbacks, Bobbles, Lunchboxes
Pinback button set of colorful Victorian circus clowns, handpressed by me in my Philadelphia area studio. You'll love the colors on these, bright and crisp, sure to make you smile : Buttons are small 1inch size. Be sure to check out the other bu...

Moody Man Victorian Humour Novelty Pinback Buttons

Price: $5.00
Category: Pinbacks, Bobbles, Lunchboxes
Set of six funny little faces in the form of 1inch pinback buttons. Designed using copies of Victorian era graphics, these buttons are sure to delight both young and old

Set of 9 Victorian Babies Pinback Buttons

Price: $7.00
Category: Pinbacks, Bobbles, Lunchboxes
Set of 9 1inch pinback buttons, they make great baby shower favors I created this set using copies from a rare Victorian era book, Ideal Heads, which featured these great baby portraits. So sweet

Victorian Acrobats Pinback Buttons

Price: $5.00
Category: Pinbacks, Bobbles, Lunchboxes
Assorted 1 pinback buttons made from copies of 19th century circus posters. Six in allgreat fun

Flock of 25 Vintage Birds Pinback Buttons

Price: $19.00
Category: Pinbacks, Bobbles, Lunchboxes
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. Henry David Thoreau Here ...

35 Heraldic Gothic Coat of Arms Pinback Buttons

Price: $25.00
Category: Pinbacks, Bobbles, Lunchboxes
Fun Item for fans of Medieval art and Heraldry35 1inch pinback buttons featuring heraldic symbols. Includes a soft black storage pouch. I make these buttons using Americanmade machines and all metal parts. Buttons are 1 in diameter and have a st...

12 Retro Halloween Pinback Buttons

Price: $9.00
Category: Pinbacks, Bobbles, Lunchboxes
Set of Halloween Buttons featuring Retro Art Come forth and join the pleasure throng Forget your sorrow and your wrong, In one glad hour of joyous song To honor Halloweâ€™en Celebrate the season or wear your love of Halloween every day with t...