Nice Old one pound New Orleans Style Molasses Sweet Box.
Box Measures circa 9.5" x 5"
Great Colours and graphics on this large tin. Has a few dents and age related wear but not bad considering Age.
Measures approx 11" Tall and 7" Wide
Measuring approximately 7 inches high, this most rarely found, circa 1900’s, cloth, Black Mammy doll boasts a body form that is constructed of a dried cob of corn!
Mammy sports hand-stitched facial features, and all original, machine-stitched clothing. Mammy’s hands and arms are made of fabric-coated pipe cleaners allowing for flexibility and movement. Her corn cob body has been neatly encased in muslin...
Nice little French Soap Box complete with its original soap.
Box measures circa 3.5" x 2" x 1.5"
Tin Measures circa 3.5" in diameter and 1" in depth
This lot includes McGovern and McGovern~ Shriver pins, lapel pins, bumper stickers and an auction promo.Some of the stickers are slightly musty and curled. The pins are in great shape and vary in size.All sold as is.
This rarely found, 1937, tin, wind-up, DOUBLE JITTER-BUG Mechanical Dancing Toy was made by the Buffalo Toy & Tool Works. The Buffalo Toy & Tools Works was located in Buffalo, New York, and was established in 1924.
The toy is in very fine, working condition. When wound, the black dancers bob up and down, moving their hinged legs about and swinging their arms. The dancer's heads, bodies, and arms are constructed of flat tin, while their legs and feet are three dimensional...
Offered is a wonderful 1934 edition of Topsy Turvy and the Tin Clown by Bernice G. Anderson and illustrated by Esther Friend.
This seldom found copy was originally published in 1932 by Rand McNally & Company of New York.
This copy has superficial scratches to the front and back covers, as well as surface soiling, and wear on book cover edges.(see photos). The front cover has a slight tear at the crease that does not effect strength or integrity of the cover board...
Offered is this very rarely found, 1938, LITTLE BLACK SAMBO book with beautiful, full color illustrations by Hidegard Lupprian, a McLoughlin Brothers Inc, Springfield, Massachusetts, book publication. Hardcover, 53 unnumbered pages.
This story is a much-beloved children's classic written in the early 1900's by Englishwoman, Helen Bannerman, for her two daughters while they lived in India. Sambo, in the original Bannerman tale, was an Indian boy and not an African-American child...
Tobacco tin lunch box, Dixie Kid Cut Plug, by Nall & Williams Tobacco Co.-Louisville, great Black Baby graphics & says "He was bred in Old Kentucky", has usual age related wear, please see photos 5"H x 8"W.
In lovely condition with the exception of subtle fading to Mammy's red head kerchief, this delightful 1940's pin cushion doll appears to have been unused! No pinholes can be seen!
Mammy's head and body are actually constructed of a single wooden clothespin that was then inserted into her cotton-batting-padded skirt. Her face is hand-painted, she has a tuft of white cotton batting hair peeking out from her kerchief, and her apron is stamped in black ink "Souvenir of New Orleans"...
Nice display item, tin toy by Chad valley Toys. Unfortunately the stings are off but makes a great display piece with those graphics
Measures approx 18" Long and 8" wide
Really nice look with plenty of age.
This would hang on the kitchen wall and you can put a pencil/pen through one of the hands and the paper would be stuck to apron. Someone has some point has stuck an old kitchen related card to it I would say.
There is crack running through, near the top of the apron, but nothing comes away and seems to have been repaired many years ago...
Offered is an authentic signed baseball from former Negro League player CLIFFORD LAYTON. The ball was signed for me at an autograph show and is dated 4-15-05.
Mr. Layton was a skilled pitcher with a strong bat who had a four-year career in the Negro Leagues, playing for the Indianapolis Clowns, the New York Black Yankees and the Raleigh Tigers...
Measuring 9 inches high, these delightful examples of Folk Art styling represent three of a series of Black cloth character dolls made in Alabama in the 1930’s by unknown craftsmen/women employed under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's (FDR) Depression era program, the Work Projects Administration (WPA), in existence from 1935-1943.
The Work Projects Administration was designed to provide jobs across the country during the Great Depression when hundreds of thousands were out of work...
This is a real favorite of mine. A signed photograph of Rhode Island Reds Hockey team general manager, Lou Pieri(1897-1967). The inscription in ball point pen is a bit indistinct but reads " The Best RI Reds Team Ever Lou Pieri". I'm assuming these are the wives of the players. Pieri was an American basketball and ice hockey executive and coach( see Wikipedia for further information). The 8X10 B&W photo has some creasing and minor wear at the bottom and top edge; the frame shows some wear.
Nice little box measuring 4" x 3.5". Half Pound Box which would have contained crystallised ginger
Fun Box of Children's Crayons - made in England and measures approx 4" x 4"
Large Children's Black Americana Tin Drum with scenes of black children playing.
Drum Measures approx : 9.5" in Diameter and 5" Tall
Measuring 17 inches long, this delightful, folk-art styled, cloth, black Mammy doll was made circa 1920's.
Detailing in construction sets this mammy doll apart! Her creation was very carefully executed through a combination of hand and machine stitching. Mammy was lovingly dressed in clothing made from old, red, black, and white-patterned handkerchiefs, while both her body and her interesting pair of black pantaloons were constructed of old, black stockings...
Great Coffee Tin from Australia, we don't see too much Black Americana from that part of the world. Condition is good, see photos.
Tin Measures approx 4" in diameter and 3.2" Deep
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!
German Children's Toy Noise maker.. Unfortunately it no longer makes any noise, so just a nice display piece.
Offered is a beautiful, C1930s, hand-woven basket plate or tray from the Hausa People of Nigeria, Africa, measuring approximately 13 inches in diameter.
Baskets such as these are made by the women in the Hausa tradition utilizing vegetable fiber, grasses and straw, all of which are typically harvested in the summer...
Small Black Americana Candy Box, "Cake Walk" by John H Dockman & Son. Inc
Box is all complete with no splits but as you will see from the photo, there is staining and wear to it.
Box Measures approx - 4" Long and 2" wide and 1" in depth
This delightful Black Boy Rag Doll has a face with a story to tell! What an expression!
Measuring 13 inches tall, he is constructed of black, machine-stitched, vintage 1930-1940's, polished cotton which has been stuffed with cotton batting. Facial features have been hand-embroidered, are quite expressive and are exceedingly well done. His hair has been styled in tightly wound little ringlets...
Nice little game with instructions.
Box has a fair bit of wear to it.
Measures Approx - 5.5" x 4"
Waterproof Shoe Polish bottle from France "Nubian"
Great item, published in Chicago in 1941, Large size measuring circa 10.5" Wide and 13" Long
Unused and complete
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...
This is a rare little Dutch Menthol Sweet Tin with superb graphics on it.
tin measures approx - 2.2" x 1.5"
Very nice and perfect condition, little box complete with all its cigarette paper...
Measures approx - 2" x 1.7"
50g Net Tobacco, Old Friend Tin from England
Measures - approx - 4.25" Long, 3" Wide and 1" high
Nice Biscuit tin that portrays the BBC's Black & White Minstrel Show that used to be on TV in the 60's and 70's
Tin Measures circa 9" x 9"
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...
This a small illustrated book by Helen Bannerman, 55 pages, sleeve is in poor condition, book binding is still good, general condition fair.
