Thrifty Monday's pretty pictures, beloved books and enchanting ephemera
Let's take a little break from Silver Bella talk and look at some of my thrifty finds! Today's category: paper, and everything here is from the garage sale of an antiques dealer who was going out of business, or from an estate sale. I got this all at low garage sale pricing!
This is such a fun old book of Christmas carols and activities, put out by the Richfield company as a corporate giveaway.
It contains Christmas carols, as the cover says, but also...
crafts, like this snowman to cut out. I was charmed!
Do you remember this series of books on big American cities?
I do; and I love the iconic illustrations in that forgone style, of sights that are so familiar to me from growing up there!
This is the feathery endpaper of another great book I found...
Can you guess what book? That's right...
It's not an original edition but it is a favorite edition, and every other page has amazing pictures of birds to scan for art!
A sturdy matchbox of faded red paper with a great old illustration of horseman and dogs; then two books of another kind. The French-English dictionary that I will probably not be able to take apart because it is so tiny and cute (and old!); and a 1941 diary that is full of entries like these:
The sweetness of the boy and the lamb -- plus the beauty of their dresses -- made me take it home.
I found this little girl enchanting! (Sorry for the strange angle -- I was trying not to get a glare when I photographed.) It's entitled "The Artist's Daughter by Vigee-Lebrun. A note on the back of this print said, "Though Madame Lebrun painted Marie Antoinette no less than twenty times, she found her own daughter, Julie a subject almost as attractive." Who wouldn't?
Would you believe I have never owned one of this La Mode Illustree prints before? But now I do!
Finally: a beautifully old needlepoint with a familiar theme of girl in the garden, but I've never seen those kinds of flowers, nor an arbor hanging with wisteria, before. The frame is actually a handled tray.
And I do so love the shabby flowers on it!
Thank you for looking at all my new treasures -- I hope you enjoyed them! I'm linking up with:
Click on the links today and tomorrow to see more thrifty finds!
Do you remember this series of books on big American cities?
A sturdy matchbox of faded red paper with a great old illustration of horseman and dogs; then two books of another kind. The French-English dictionary that I will probably not be able to take apart because it is so tiny and cute (and old!); and a 1941 diary that is full of entries like these:
June 7, 1941 - a perfect day!
I also found some beautiful framed prints, not that I needed any, but I just loved them:
"Drei Heilige" by Lucas Cranach
Would you believe I have never owned one of this La Mode Illustree prints before? But now I do!
Thank you for looking at all my new treasures -- I hope you enjoyed them! I'm linking up with:
Click on the links today and tomorrow to see more thrifty finds!
Comments
that frame with the rose trim is yummy.
xxx's
tabitha
Thanks for showing us!
I adore old needleworks in any form and your portrait of the artist's daughter - exquisite!
Your post is full of the most awesome treasures. I love what you love hands down.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
Hugs, Jeanne