DESCRIPTION: A good woven wicker fishing creel with leather straps and sturdy saddle-shaped lid attached to the rounded creel body. Such antique fishing gear can make attractive and functional decorative accessories for lake cabins and seaside homes. Early 20th C. CONDITION: Good condition with almost no losses to wicker; minor scuffing to leather; interior silk lining degraded. DIMENSIONS: 12.25” wide x 10.75” high x 6.5” deep.

Offered is a very interesting, scarcely-seen, Black Americana child's toy from the 1930's era.

Measuring 7" long x 4.5" high x 4" wide, this colorful toy features two African-American boxers who are activated by jiggling the paddle which causes the boxer's arms and legs to freely fly about.

The boxers have painted wooden bodies with lithographed tin arms and legs...

The resplendent colors of this vintage, 1940's, all-hand-stitched, wool felt tote bag with rolled hand straps are pure eye candy!

This never-used tote bears the original paper tag which states, "Handmade by African Cripple; Ematupeni / Zimele Cripple Care Centers; Durban, England"...

Measuring just under 2 inches high, this cast iron, Black, Uncle Sam pencil sharpener was made in Occupied Japan in 1948. In wonderful condition with very minor paint loss due to light use, this piece is stamped on the backside of Uncle Sam's head: "Made in Occupied Japan".

A wonderful and rarely found piece of Black Americana!

Offered is this extremely RARE 1920's, cardboard, D.L. Clark Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 120 count, BLACK JACK Caramel "PENNY CANDY" BOX which features a singing Black Dandy strumming a banjo.

Cardboard candy boxes with African-American themes remain EXTREMELY RARE finds in today's market due to their inherent fragile nature!!!

This wonderful piece is in very good condition with the expected aging, and edge and corner wear given its 100+ years of age...

Measuring a total length of 26 inches including strings, this fabulous, late 1940's, black character marionette is in wonderful, never-played-with condition!

The puppet, itself, is 14 inches tall and is colorfully dressed in blue and white checked pants, red shoes, orange and whit polka dot shirt, straw hat and red patterned neck scarf.

The puppet's face is composition and bears evidence of some age-related crackling as noted in photos...

An unusual piece, this delightful, cloth Mammy Broom Doll from the 1940's measures 12.5 inches high with a total height of 31 inches including the broom.

Mammy's wonderful, smiling face is hand-stitched and her clothes are machine sewn. Her blouse is seersucker, and her head, arms, skirt, apron, and cap are cotton. Her head, arms, and upper torso are stuffed with cotton batting...

Offered are two, highly-collectible, circa 1860-70's, earthenware, pictorial plates featuring two scenes from the enormously popular, 1852, novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" or "Life Among the Lowly", is an anti-slavery novel that was published in two volumes and which had a profound effect on attitudes toward African-Americans and slavery in the U.S...

Large old Boyer's metal Polish Litho Tin Can with Black Americana Graphics on the back It has a dent on the Front left side. Measures Approx - 10" Tall, 7.5" Wide and 3" Deep

Complete set of 8 Glass Magic Lantern slides. Great colors and would look very nice framed so the light could shine through when hanging!! These are for the story of "How Jing-Jing Bagged his Quarry and used the derogatory terms of Ni**ger to describe him.

Little Box and French Perfume Bottle for Vigny Golliwogg. Box measures circa 3" tall and 2" Wide

Rare survivor here, Box and Bottle of Skuf Shine for Shoes. Box has wear to it but all there

Great book, hard to find these days. Book is complete and fully bound. It does have wear to it, especially to the children's heads which would be used to turn the pages, they are all still attached but have crease marks and wear - Please see photos Published 1942

Measuring 3 3/4 inches tall, this rarely found, bisque, black baby doll rests in a 6 inch long Peanut!

The little black doll retains its original cloth diaper and swaddling blanket with arm holes. The blanket shows spotted soiling. The baby doll features a nicely hand-painted face with the bisque in excellent condition with the exception of the right foot...

Another really nice and rare tin Pail with great graphics. Measures approx - 4.5" in Diameter and 4" high

I cannot find anything on this game, early McLoughlin Brothers target/toss game. Instructions are inside the box lid and missing whatever arrows etc.. that would have been used to toss at the target. Box has some wear to it and measures approx 20" Tall and 12" Wide

Very nice Golly Tin Pull Toy Measures approx - 10" x 5"

Little Candy Box made by Candy Crafters Inc. Box measures approx 3.5" long and 2" wide

These are lovely, consist of a 6 piece jazz band, and 5 Chairs, one the drummers can stand on its own. Painted on metal, which is most likely to be lead. Figure Measure approx 2"

From 1924 - Novelty Box, likely as a fun gift box (for the time) with some language on the box that would not be used today!!

This is a really good size tin plate toy, open the box lid (instructions inside the lid) and you press the triggers to move the Characters. Some wear to the box lid edges and one split to the box lid corner, otherwise in great condition and in working order. Measures approx 7" x 7.5" and 3" Deep

Very Nice little box for the Ten Little Ni**er Boys, contains 10 tubes of ivy Machine Twist thread, only three of the 10 tubes still have their stickers on with their part in the story... Box measures approx 3.5" x 3.5"

Offered is a near-mint, 1935, 2nd edition of Helen Bannerman's, original Little Black Sambo story, accompanied by five additional and delightful Little Black Sambo stories by noted author and illustrator Frank Ver Beck...

Scarce game by Spears Games, Box has good amount of wear to it but still holding up, it is missing one of the climbing monkeys. See pictures Box measures approx 11.5" x 7" Price Includes shipping on this item

Nice Circa 1900 tin for Long Tom Tobacco. Conditions is fair.. has got age related wear to it, please see photos. measures approx - 5" Long and 3.5" Wide

Increasingly more and more difficult to find, this pot metal pencil sharpener was made in pre-WWII Germany in the 1930's.

Measuring 1.5 inches long x 1 inch wide, this sharpener depicts a derogatory caricature of a Black Man. The glaring eyes are painted a stark white with teeny black pupils, while the red painted lips surround the pencil sharpener blade which takes the place of the man's teeth. Curly molded hair and eyebrows are painted black, while the face is painted brown- inside and out...

Measuring 14 inches in height, this vintage 1920's, 100 year old, Mammy Bottle Doll is in well-loved condition, with completely hand-stitched and highly detailed clothing that has been recently laundered and carefully pressed.

Mammy bottle dolls were constructed to be quite functional; they were used as doorstops back in the day...

Published in 1926 by the Whitman Publishing Company of Racine, Wisconsin, this very rare, miniature-size, HARDCOVER book measuring just 4x5 inches, offers a very unique continuation of the original Little Black Sambo story! It is thought that this mini size Sambo book was manufactured as a salesman's sample edition, meant to be strictly used as a marketing prop to sell orders for the full-size edition of the same book.

Entitled A New Story of Little Black Sambo, this tale picks up the stor...

Nice Box, in good condition - Maison Blanche - New Orleans Box measures approx 10" x 5" x 4"

This is a rare Spanish Oil Tin for Grasa Iberia S.A Graphics are still very good but one side of the tin is dented and no lid top, certainly been used but a great survivor!!! Measures 8.5" Long, 7" High and 5.5" wide

Nice set of 9 old Pins, including 6 Black Americana ones, they may have formed part of another game before, perhaps on a stand with metal rods going through as there are holes through the necks on the sides?? They Measure approx 9.5" tall.

Produced as a souvenir piece for the 1884 New Orleans Exposition, this diminutive, antique, metal match holder measures just 2.5 inches high!

Marked "Pat Applied For" on its base, this darling match holder features two small black boys playing around a rather large cotton bale (the bale is labeled "COTTON").

Well-executed detail! A lovely piece seldom found in today's collectible market!

Very hard to find large candy tin, with a great caricatures of a Black bell Boy playing the saxophone. There is a fair bit of wear to the tin, however it is a survivor and there are not many around now. Tin measures approx - 10" in Diameter and 3.4" Deep

heavy cast Iron Dinah Bank in working order.

In a frame measuring 7 3/4 inches wide x 9 1/2 inches long, this brightly colored, all original, circa 1920s, Little Black Sambo Puzzle is in near perfect condition! This very rarely-found puzzle (I've NEVER seen another one like this) attracts additional interest due to the whimsical cutting of some of the individual puzzle pieces- in the shape of a heart, a fish, a bird and a dog!

This puzzle features a rendition of Little Black Sambo depicting Sambo trying on his new red jacket---one pre...

Measuring a diminutive 4.50 inches long x 2.50 inches high, this very unusual tin and pot metal piece features a small black shoe shine boy with shoe polishing brush in hand, about to polish a giant ladies lace-up shoe!!

The piece has two tiny holes in its bowl suggesting that this was once screwed or fastened into another piece. Logic suggests that perhaps this may have been an advertising display item of some sort...