What I Buy

A shortlist of items I am always actively buying. All emails & offers are welcome: The worst thing I might say is, "No, thank you."

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• 19th century hair work: Wreaths, flowers, ​jewelry, albums, etc.

• Mourning & funeral paraphernalia.

• Antique photos with unusual subject matter & photo albums, particularly gem albums & photos in unusual cases.

• Antique sewing notions.

• Valentines, 1870s & earlier.

• Sentimental objects, keepsakes, & love tokens.

• 19th century women's crafts like featherwork, woolwork, shellwork, & wax.

• French decorative objects (particularly Napoleon III era), Grand Tour & Palais Royal souvenirs.
  

• Victorian paper arts: Silhouettes, decoupage, & scherenschnitte.

• All things shaped like hands, from vases to jewelry.

• Catholic devotional objects: Sacred hearts, ex votos, relics, cloister work, etc.
  

• 19th century dolls.

• Antique decorative boxes of all sizes & material.

• Decorative objects made from mother of pearl, or papier-mâché with mother of pearl.

• "Ladies' things" like hand fans, mirrors, jewelry boxes, & perfume bottles.

• Friendship albums, autograph albums, scrap albums, & diaries.
  

• Fraternal: Freemasonry, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, & Daughters of Rebekah

• All things Art Nouveau.

• Vintage & antique witchcraft & occult-related items

• Anything you might call "gay interest."

• Antique books: Illustrated (Doré, Beardsley, Pogany, Clarke, etc.), poetry, mythology, French, Latin, consolation or mourning books, fine bindings, "gift books," natural history, floral & botanical, & any books by, for, or about women.