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Auction No 409, Category: Fashion

11 Lots (displaying 1 - 11)

Mid-19th Century to 1930s Ephemera including Victorian hand-coloured fashion plates (18), 1920s/30s Advertising interest with give-aways

Lot: 7

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £52
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Mid-19th Century to 1930s Ephemera including Victorian hand-coloured fashion plates (18), 1920s/30s Advertising interest with give-aways, booklets, leaflets etc; plus few cuttings & scraps. Fair to VF (49 items) 

M. Racinet "Le Costume Historique", Firmin-Didot [1888], folio, original cloth, worn & marked; 95 of 100 full-page chromo-litho plates

Lot: 38

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
UNSOLD
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M. Racinet Le Costume Historique, Firmin-Didot [1888], folio, original cloth, worn & marked; 95 of 100 full-page chromo-litho plates in good condition. Title page with spotting.  All plates loose.

Fashion Plates, 1920s/1930s, hand-coloured, mostly illustrating ladies’ hats, taken from "Les Chapeaux des Grandes Modistes Parisiennes"

Lot: 42

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £350 - £400
UNSOLD
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Fashion Plates, 1920s/1930s, hand-coloured, mostly illustrating ladies' hats, taken from Les Chapeaux des Grandes Modistes Parisiennes, or similar, image size 22.5 x 14.5cm or larger, a few creased but mostly fine. (178)

"Vogue Patterns, November 1953", Vogue Pattern Service, Greenwich, USA; folio, cloth bound with very worn pictorial onlay, corners bumped;

Lot: 43

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
UNSOLD
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Vogue Patterns, November 1953, Vogue Pattern Service, Greenwich, USA; folio, cloth bound with very worn pictorial onlay, corners bumped; section tabs at fore-edge well-thumbed; first page soiled o/w clean internally with many 100s of coloured illustrations; 14 pages damaged with large pieces cut away. Prices are in UK Sterling and Canadian Dollars. Approx 1000pp.

"Art - Gout - Beaute, Feuillets de l’Elegance Feminine", issues for Nov. 1924, August 1925, and Sept. 1925, all fine with hand coloured illustrations

Lot: 46

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £120
SOLD £115
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Art – Gout – Beaute, Feuillets de l'Elegance Feminine, issues for Nov. 1924, August 1925, and Sept. 1925, all fine with the hand coloured illustrations, many as tipped-in plates, bound together with a French 1920s edition of Vogue magazine; in a fine modern full leather binding, gilt title to spine. Original wraps preserved.  

"Art - Gout - Beaute, Feuillets de l’Elegance Feminine", issues for Christmas 1922, March and November 1926 and September 1927;

Lot: 47

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £130 - £150
SOLD £145
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Art – Gout – Beaute, Feuillets de l'Elegance Feminine, issues for Christmas 1922, March and November 1926 and September 1927; all with the original wraps, each with a pictorial onlay, string bound; all with the hand-coloured illustrations, many as tipped-in plates; the issue for March 1926 has had a page partly cut-away o/w VG/Fine (4)

"Art - Gout - Beaute, Feuillets de l’Elegance Feminine", issues for Christmas 1922, July 1923, and April & July 1926; all in the original wraps

Lot: 48

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £120
SOLD £120
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Art – Gout – Beaute, Feuillets de l'Elegance Feminine, issues for Christmas 1922, July 1923, and April & July 1926; all in the original wraps with pictorial onlay, the issues for Christmas 1922 and April 1926 handstamped SPECIMEN on front cover; all with the hand-coloured illustrations, many as tipped-in plates, the issue for July 1923 with some plates removed. Fair to fine. Housed in a slipcase. (4)

"Croquis Artistiques: Taille Extra", Summer, 1940, large format, original printed wraps, with 24 full-page hand-coloured fashion plates;

Lot: 49

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £72
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Croquis Artistiques: Taille Extra, Summer, 1940, large format, original printed wraps, with 24 full-page hand-coloured fashion plates;covers a little worn, the front cover chipped at one corner. Fine internally. Introductory trilingual text. 

Arnold Bachwitz "Croquis Parisiens, Modeles Classiques", Summer 1927, original printed wraps, contents loose comprising 11 hand-coloured plates,

Lot: 50

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £26 - £36
SOLD £46
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Arnold Bachwitz Croquis Parisiens, Modeles Classiques, Summer 1927, original printed wraps, contents loose comprising 11 hand-coloured plates, 30.5 x 19.5cm, on blue paper, fine.

"Sport-Dresses No.2, Summer 1925", large format (33 x 19.5cm), original printed wraps, string bound, complete with 30 fine hand-coloured plates.

Lot: 51

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £120
SOLD £175
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Sport-Dresses No.2, Summer 1925, large format (33 x 19.5cm), original printed wraps, string bound, complete with 30 fine hand-coloured plates. 2pp introductory text. Very scarce.

"Modelles Originaux, Hiver 1916/17", printed wraps,abrasion to front cover, some plates removed but still containing 52 hand-coloured fashion plates;

Lot: 52

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £82
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Modelles Originaux, Hiver 1916/17, printed wraps, abrasion to front cover, some plates removed but still containing 52 hand-coloured fashion plates; tall quarto, somewhat reduced by the binder affecting a few of the images. Free from foxing.