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FINE ARTS - VARIA, CATCHPENNY PRINTS, COMMERCIAL ART, MENU-CARDS, PAPER,
PAPER-CUTTINGS, PICTURE POSTCARDS, POSTERS etc.
- Small tear in centre. = A celebratory song on the occassion of a wedding. Rare.
- Table top faded/ dried/ dam. spot in edge. the rest apart from minor flaws in good condition.
= Hair art pieces became popular in Western Europe in the 19th century. An extensive note accompanying the piece identifies the maker of the piece ("mejuffrouw Roelofs vriendin van tante Eefje St.") and lists the names of the various family members whose hair was used in the composition (and where exactly the hair was used in the image). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLI.
= Modern impression, printed from the original block. With the collector's mark of P.A. Regnault (Lugt 2069a).
- Some dam. spots in cut-out borders.
= Showing Jesus on the cross and St. Elisabeth.
ADDED: ±30 paper cuttings, 20th cent., various sizes, mainly white paper, mainly (farm) animals, loose in dec. gilt calf box.
- A few sm. parts dam.; outer framing line yellowed/ browned/ partly waterst.
= Large and delicate paper cutting. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLII.
- Needs some cleaning.
= In the late 1820s, Kings Porcelain Manufactory in Berlin developed a new form of porcelain art. Master carvers created finely detailed scenes and portraits in wax, which were then used to make the moulds for porcelain plaques they called lithophanes. Porcelain becomes translucent when it is kiln fired at very high temperatures, and an impression, cast into porcelain, will produce a remarkably detailed design by only slight variations in its thickness. Soon hundreds of thousands of lithophanes in a variety of intricate designs were produced in Germany, France, Belgium, Ireland, Wales and England. Used as window hangings, fire screens and teapot warmers, some were also placed in the bottoms of steins and cups to delight the eye of the consumer when lifted to the light. Lithophane lamps were given a place of honor in 19th century households. By the turn of the century their popularity had waned and production virtually ceased by 1930. Few of the original lithophanes have survived to the twentieth century. As the true beauty of these translucent images depends on light, many were discarded by heirs of the original owners, unaware of their beauty when properly displayed, and therefore these original lithophanes can be regarded as very rare.
= Rare. Probably a novelty menu designed by one of the engineers of Philips. "Executed by the Helmondian Phil-harmonic Kitcheners conducted by Gerry Vente".
"Restaurant 'Chez Gaston' Amsterdam". Col. lithogr. menu-card by (J?) TIELENS, 20x15,2 cm., w. manuscript menu in pen and ink on verso, dated "11-3-22".
- Folded w. horizontal crease.
AND 5 other menu-cards, 1910-1969, all with decorative design.
= I.a. on the occasion of marriages, wedding anniversaries and promotions, but also daily menus. Some establishments: Münchener Löwenbräu (Cologne), Kurhaus Scheveningen, Queens Gate Hotel (London), Restaurant Trianon (Amsterdam), Chateau "Oud-Wassenaar", Hotel Hof van Holland (Hilversum, 1913). Also a menu on the occasion of the completion of the railway station of Hengelo, designed by G.W. van Heukelom (with a mounted photograph of the railway station), a menu card of the Nederlandsche Koks-Vereeniging in The Hague, a menu card of a reunion of prisoners of the nazi-camp Ravensbruck and a small menu-card dated 1866.
- Folded. = With separate wine-list.
AND ±60 other Dutch masonic menu-cards, 1857-1934, incl. some odd-shaped (i.a. designed by A. VLAANDEREN, i.a. of the loges "De Geldersche Broederschap", "de Veluwe", "Het Vrije Geweten" (Breda), "Drie Kolommen" (Rotterdam), "Vicit vim virtus" (Haarlem), "Hiram Abiff" (The Hague),"La Vertu" (Leyden, 1857) and from the Dutch Indies (±10x). - AND ±100 modern masonic menu-cards, all but a few Dutch, ±1950-2000.
= I.a. the yearly dinner of the Orde van Vrijmetselaren onder het Grootoosten der Nederlanden (1880, 1889-1994, 1897) SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLII.
= Dinners given on various occasions, i.a. work anniversaries or yearly events. Various subsidiary companies and brands, i.a. Sunlight, Omo, T.P. Viruly en Co., Levers' Zeep-Maatschappij.
- Partly sl. discol.; verso w. remnants of glue (?) in corners.
= Delicate cutting and drawing.
- Corners sl. yellowed.
= Very detailed cutting showing i.a. various finely cut flowers, an angel carrying a scythe, another angel fighting a dragon and Death holding a spear. The booklet mentions "Inliggende knipsels werden in 1844 door Wilhelm Muller te Dusseldorf, al pratende, met een zeer gewone schaar geknipt".