RARE 1926 J. Gruelle “Beloved Belindy” Black Mammy Book

Archives: Collectibles: Memorabilia Pre 1930: item #404295
B227

"Beloved Belindy" was the MAMMY of the well-known Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy dolls!!!

This rarely found copy was written and illustrated by the renowned author of a number of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy stories of the period, Johnny Gruelle. The book was published in both the United States and Great Britain in 1926, by the P.F. Volland Company of Joliet, Illinois.... Click for details

1930 Alabama WPA Folk Art Black Cloth Washerwoman Doll

Archives: Collectibles: Memorabilia Pre 1940: item #404268
BA512

Measuring 9 inches high, this delightful example of Folk Art styling, is one of a series of Black cloth character dolls made in Alabama in the 1930’s by unknown craftsmen/women. It has been speculated that their creation was encouraged through FDR’s Depression era program, the Work Projects Administration (WPA), in existence from 1936-1940.

This doll depicts the black washerwoman. She holds an authentic-looking wood a... Click for details

1930 Alabama WPA Folk Art Black Cloth Doll "Fisherman"

Archives: Collectibles: Memorabilia Pre 1940: item #404260
BA511

Measuring 9 inches high, this delightful example of Folk Art styling, is one of a series of Black cloth character dolls made in Alabama in the 1930’s by unknown craftsmen/women. It has been speculated that their creation was encouraged through FDR’s Depression era program, the Work Projects Administration (WPA), in existence from 1936-1940.

This doll depicts the black fisherman. He holds a bait pail and bunch of stick... Click for details

1930 Alabama WPA Folk Art Black Stick Gatherer Doll

Archives: Collectibles: Memorabilia Pre 1940: item #404216
BA510

Measuring 9 inches high, this delightful example of Folk Art styling, is one of a series of Black cloth character dolls made in Alabama in the 1930’s by unknown craftsmen/women. It has been speculated that their creation was encouraged through FDR’s Depression era program, the Work Projects Administration (WPA), in existence from 1936-1940.

This doll depicts the black stick or kindling gatherer. He holds a bunch of st... Click for details

Exceptional C1920 Black Golliwog Doll in Formal Attire

Archives: Collectibles: Memorabilia Pre 1930: item #402872
BA506

This fabulously detailed, circa 1920, hand-made, 18 inch long cloth Golliwog doll has been most finely and meticulously crafted. A brief history of the Golliwog doll: The Golliwog is based on a Black minstrel doll that the Victorian era illustrator, Florence Kate Upton, born in 1873, had played with as a small child in New York. Upton's Golliwog character was first introduced to the world in her 1895 book entitled The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls. Like the rag doll that inspired it, the Golli... Click for details

Fab 1920 Black Memorabilia Handmade Cloth Doll "Sallie"

Archives: Collectibles: Memorabilia Pre 1930: item #402841
BA507

Measuring 12 inches tall, this unusual, early 1920's, all-original, handmade cloth doll exudes tremendous personality, and even has a hand-inked name tag stitched to her right arm-- "Sallie"!

Constructed of cotton-stuffed, brown stockinette, Sallie's finely detailed, molded, hand-embroidered face is absolutely priceless! Her painted ceramic button eyes gazing off to her left make her come alive and draw one to her! Sa... Click for details

1926 Black Memorabilia "Bigger Hair" Tobacco Container

Archives: Collectibles: Memorabilia Pre 1930: item #402787
BA505

Offered is the fabulously RARE BIGGER HAIR Smoke or Chewing Tobacco Container from the later 1920's!! This heavy cardboard receptacle, of course, was the slightly later and much more politically correct version of the original "Nigger Hair" Tobacco tin, produced by B. Leidersdorf Co, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the successor company to original Nigger Hair manufacturer, The American Tobacco Company. The identical image, the FIJI ISLANDER, was used on both containers to sell tobacco. ... Click for details

RARE C1900 Sample Black Granny Doll by Ruie Ann Park

Archives: Collectibles: Memorabilia Pre 1910: item #402776
BA508

This exceptional, one-of-a-kind, circa 1900, cloth doll was made and designed by Ruie Ann Park, a Van Buren, Arkansas, Civil War History author who wrote “Civil War Letters of the Shibley Brothers, Van Buren, Arkansas”.

This extremely rare SAMPLE doll was, at one time, exhibited by Mrs. Park at a Van Buren drug store for marketing purposes--orders would be taken at the drug store based upon her sample doll or dolls th... Click for details

1937 Black Sambo Helen Bannerman “Little Black Quasha”

Archives: Collectibles: Memorabilia Pre 1940: item #390533
B218

This first edition, miniature, hard cover book , "The Story of Little Black Quasha" was written and illustrated by Helen Bannerman, an Englishwoman living in India at the turn of the 20th century who wrote this and a series of six other SAMBO stories to amuse her two little daughters. These subsequent stories are much more rarely found as fewer were published, because at that time, none ever reached the popularity of the original “Little Black Sambo”. "The Story of Little Black Quasha" is one o... Click for details

RARE 1921 GOLD DUST TWINS Washing Powder Trolley Sign

Archives: Collectibles: Memorabilia Pre 1930: item #384310
BA495

Protected in a 12 ¾ x 22 ½ inch, gold and green painted wood frame, this authentic GOLD DUST Trolley Sign was manufactured by the N.K. Fairbanks Company in 1921!

GOLD DUST Trolley Signs are a very rare find in today’s market as they were made of cardboard, a material much less likely to withstand the test of time as opposed to tin advertising signs which were much sturdier!... Click for details