Auction Winnings...German Scrap

Well, finally got some photos of the goodies I won at the auction I told you about last week.  First, I have to tell you I was SOOOOOO excited when Mom told me about this auction.  Here's why.... this is the auction listing....

ANTIQUE AUCTION

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EPHEMRA – ADVERTISING – TEXTILES – BUTTONS -  ANTIQUES

30,000+/- post cards – real photos, buildings, Christmas, holidays and more; 60+ Scrap Books trade cards, old photos, calling cards, people, animals, botanical and much more, a great selection; adverting calendars; stock certificates; sheet music; Buster Brown; calendar prints; 100’s of old valentines including 3D and others; chain framed advertising pictures; Dan Patch pictures and other items; photo albums; Kate Greenway and Palmer Cox books; children’s books; Modern Priscilla magazines; Ladies Home Journal; Prairie Farmer; almanacs; playbills; The Little Corporal; farm equipment paper items; Railroad time tables and more; patches; World’s Fair items; large selection of political buttons and posters; 50+ advertising yard sticks; books; Camel menu sign; advertising signs and tins; DeLaval tin cows; trade cards; tine types; lots of horse pictures and prints; old photographs; The Sun Garter oak advertising display; Duro Decorative Decals tin box with 100’s of decals; travel brochures; Websters Mammouth Packet Seeds wood advertising box; TEXTILES:  nice selection of early quilts; table clothes; napkins; vintage clothing; hankies; needle work; dresser scarves; doilies; pillows; BUTTONS:  1000’s of old buttons – Bakelite, brass, glass, military, figural and others, many carded, jars and boxes, a huge collection; Bakelite buckles; glass beaded pillows; ANTIQUES:  McLoughlin Bros. World’s Fair building block puzzle and other picture puzzles; baskets; dolls; Christmas and Halloween items; small oak curved glass display case; crocks and jugs;

Did you notice they spelled ephemera wrong?  Anyway, you all know how much I LOVE vintage ephemera - so this was like a dream come true.  It was so much fun to look at all of the amazing vintage bits up for grabs there.  Alas I am not the only lover of these types of goodies.  There were TONS of people there - mostly dealers which translates into big bucks.  I knew things would go high - especially the vintage Valentines and Victorian Scrap books.   

Mom got a real education as well.  She didn't think others would be interested in these types of things but I tried to tell her it would go high.  The Valentines cards were in various lots but they went for hundreds of dollars...needless to say we did not get any.  

I had hoped to get some of the 30,000+ post cards BUT 3 people got them all...the first guy was buying them for 110 - 250.00 per box (there were about 50-75 boxes).  Then another lady was paying 150.00 a box and finally the last lady took all of them that was left (17 boxes) for 125.00 each.  

So on to the Victorian Scrap books.  I am so pleased to say I got 3 baggies full of individual pieces of "Scrap" plus some Christmas Scrap - including several sheets of the same German Scrap (Victorian Santas) from 1890.    I paid far more than I wanted to but the old fart who was bidding against me honked me off.  I had set a price in my mind on what my worst case scenario price would be and luckily I didn't have to go quite that high so I was pleased.

AND...I was able to get 3 of the Victorian Scrap books I wanted!!!!  I was so excited...I paid dearly for 2 of the 3 but each of the books was special in it's own way.  They are all from the 1890's...one has a few bits from the 1900-1910 era but most are pre-1900.  

They are each in varying conditions.  This first book has some loose pages but most are in tact.  

Here are just a few of the many pages.....

Here is the second one I got...it was the most expensive because it is in pristine condition...no missing pages and only a couple loose pieces in the entire book.  Hundreds and hundreds of pieces of ephemera.  It's a beautiful book!  The image on the front is just stunning...

And here are some of the pages....

Check out this cat German Scrap piece...it's 8.5" tall!!!

I haven't taken photos of the last book yet...it's in the worst condition.  Virtually all of the pages are loose but it too is filled with lovely scrap.  The pages are deteriorating pretty bad so I am going to try to remove the pieces from the pages before they too deteriorate.  

I will be over time scanning each image from all of the books and sharing many with you all.  I can hardly wait till you see all of these wonderful vintage images!