#19th century toys

[ltwilliammowett]

Sailor made Dolls, maybe for his own children, 19th century

Head, hands and legs made of whalebone, human hair wigs and rag filled bodies

#naval artifacts #toys #sailors handicraft #dolls #19th century #age of sail

[heaveninawildflower]

Paper doll and costumes (1895).

Lithographer G. H. Buek & Co. (American, 19th century).

Images and text information courtesy MFA Boston.

#doll #paper doll #costume #1890's fashion #toys #19th century fashion #19th century

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Bruno Piglhein (1848-1894) "Weihnachtsmorgen" ("Christmas Morning")

#paintings #art #artwork #genre painting #christmas #bruno piglhein #fine art #german artist #genre scene #portrait #portrait of a child #dogs #animals #toys #bed #1800s #19th century

[empirearchives]

A rare Napoleonic model guillotine made by a French prisoner-of-war who was captured by the British at the battle of Trafalgar.

The creator had a specialty in making miniature guillotines and made this one for a British soldier who had a particular morbid fascination with the reign of terror, or la Terreur. (Bonhams)

#folk art #prison art #guillotine #miniature #toy guillotine #Clive Lloyd The Arts and Crafts of Napoleonic and American Prisoners of War 1756-1816 ACC Woodbridge 2007. #frev #french revolution #first french empire #French empire #first french republic #19th century #napoleonic era #napoleonic #art #arts and crafts #prisoner #soldiers #pow #history #artifact #historical artifacts #artifacts #1800s #early 1800s #early 19th century #french #France #funny #France memes

[daguerreotyping]

Carte de visite of a handsome French officer, c. 1860s

#the way men not only cinched the waist but also padded the torso to create an unnaturally smooth curve makes them look like toy soldiers #which like so much of 19th century fashion sits in that sweet spot between attractive and absurd #19th century #1800s #1860s #19th century fashion #military fashion #military history #men's fashion #fashion history #historical fashion #uniforms #19th century photography #carte de visite #cdv #second empire

[sleebyfrogs]

The shirt for my historically accurate Toy Soldier cosplay is done!!!!!

[Image: two photos, both taken in a mirror, of a young, transmasc person in their bedroom, wearing a reconstructed, white Victorian dress shirt. It has a shield-shaped bib area and a tab below the placket, with a detachable rounded collar and cuffs. The front placket and collar have a narrow black edge, and everything is fastened together with pearlescent shirt studs and cuff links. In the first image their face is blurred out, with comically simple eyes and a moustache doodled on top. In the second it is obscured by the body of a mandolin, held by its neck in one hand. Their short, dark hair is visible under an antique black-and-red military cap. End ID.]

(*almost historically accurate, and almost done)

After all this time!!!!! I started in September(?) and it’s now May but a lot of that was just putting off starting the twenty eight hand-done gimped and tailored buttonholes this ended up requiring because I can’t do anything by halves

If you’re wondering, I used this pattern, which worked wonderfully for me (special thanks to this tutorial too for demonstrating some of the more difficult parts), but I spent a long time trying to alter it to fit me, and to fit flatteringly, as I have never made a garment this complex before and I do not have the body an average men’s pattern expects. I had to do a lot of things multiple times over, but I’m really glad I did, because it’s definitely the most effort I’ve ever put into anything like this, and the finest sewing work I’ve ever done. I feel very dapper and handsome.

I did machine-stitch most of it because I knew, knowing me, that I could either end up with an ahistorically-sewn shirt or no shirt at all as I would procrastinate sewing all of that by hand just. Forever. I did hand-stitch a lot of it though, mostly the felled seams and fiddly collar bits. And the buttonholes. God so many buttonholes. The black edge is bias tape that I folded in half and ladder-stitched to itself through the shirt/collar fabric. (Also the horizontal seam you can see near the bottom in the lower picture exists solely because I didn’t have the fabric to cut the front out in one, and that part gets tucked into the pants anyway. Piecing is period.)

I’m still working on combining my various incomplete bits of antique cuff link and stud sets in the least-mismatched way, and the shirt itself is definitely not perfect (and there are still some minor adjustments I want to make), but all this to say I’m delighted with my work and excited to move onto the next item, which will probably be either the trousers or waistcoat, and I intend on documenting those too! I learnt so much from this experience and one day I’ll likely make another shirt much like it.

(Also, I’m happy to answer any questions about it!!! I know I could have used footsteps to follow in when I started this project)

They/them

#The Mechanisms #The Mechs #The Toy Soldier #Cosplay #Victorian #Fashion #Sewing #Historical sewing #Shirt #Dress shirt #19th century menswear #Toy Sewldier #Is my new tag for this project holy shit #Doriginal #One step closer to becoming a full-time dandy #It begins

[teatimeatwinterpalace]

Jardin des Tuileries, 5 April 1896 (x)

William Faulkner to his aunt Bama September 1925 I live just around the corner from the Luxembourg Gardens, where I spend all my time. I write there, and play with the children, help them sail their boats, etc. There is an old bent man who sails a toy boat on the pool, with the most beautiful rapt face you ever saw. When I am old enough to no longer have to make excuses for not working, I shall have a weathered derby hat like his and spend my days sailing a toy boat in the Luxembourg Gardens. 

#historyedit #19th century #paris #france #gif #this morning i went for a stroll #in the luxembourg gardens #and it always warm my heart #to see children and grown ups #playing with toy boats on the large pond #to think of it... #all these children who play here since centuries #and how this sight still moves people like faulkner back in 1925 #some things never change ♡

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ Yamauba with Kintaro Holding a Toy Mask.

Artist/Maker: Kitagawa Utamaro

Date: 1794–1809

Medium: Color woodblock print; oban.

#18th century #18th century art #19th century #19th century art #asian #asian arts #print #yamauba #kintaro #toy #mask #kitagawa utamaro #1749 #1809 #art #history of art #art history

[kirbyfigure]

sears wishbook

#sears #sears wishbook #wishbook #christmas catalog #toy catalog #vintage catalog #vintage #1980s #1990s #1970s #the 1975 #19th century #1960s #vinatge #vintage 90s #vintage toys #vintage moodboard #retro #magazine #magzine #scan #scans #snoopy #peanuts #woodstock peanuts #snoopy peanuts #woodstock #oldschool #shop #shoppers

[amatesura]

laterna magica slides, 1895-1910

#laterna magica #magic lantern #gebrüder bing #art #antique #antique toys #19th century #1900's #1910's #*

[ltwilliammowett]

Tiny sea chest made by a whaler for a child, mid 19th century

#naval artifacts #naval art #sea chest #childs toy #mid 19th century #sailors handicraft #age of sail

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

#santa claus #toys #christmas gifts #xmas gifts #vintage cards #santa #father christmas #kris kringle #saint nicholas #children #kids #christmas joy #xmas #christmas #joyeux noël #victorian #feliz navidad #christmas tree #xmas tree #19th century

[shakespearenews]

Nearly 300 toy productions, also known as juvenile dramas, were published in England between 1811 and 1860. Fans could choose military exploits (“The Battle of Waterloo,” “Conquest of Mexico,” “Invasion of Russia”), dramas and pirate stories (“Black Beard,” “Brigand and the Maid”) and even Shakespeare (“Macbeth,” “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” “Julius Caesar”).

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #theater #theatre #toys #toy thetaers #19th century #history #theater history #loc #library of congress #macbeth #merry wives #julius caesar #archives #library #realia

[max-rainet]

Book for sale * Warne Co (1880) The Children's Object Book * Animals Household City Trains Farm https://www.ebay.com/itm/385035353172 A delightful look into a child's world in the late 19th century. All the objects one would find in used at home, farm, kitchen, city, country, with family, train station, London streets, formal gardens, country side, harvesting fruit, and fields, and wintertime play and toys. #bookshop #Object #childrensbooks #books #reading #collection #rare #rarebooks #forsale #newlisting #read #enjoyable #pleasurable #kidsbooks #parenting #fun

#Book for sale * Warne Co (1880) The Children's Object Book * Animals Household City Trains Farm #https://www.ebay.com/itm/385035353172 #A delightful look into a child's world in the late 19th century. All the objects one would find in used at home #farm #kitchen #city #country #with family #train station #London streets #formal gardens #country side #harvesting fruit #and fields #and wintertime play and toys. #bookshop #Object #childrensbooks #books #reading #collection #rare #rarebooks #forsale #newlisting #read #enjoyable #pleasurable #kidsbooks #parenting

[misforgotten2]

“Bark at me will ya? Let’s see if you can bark under water. Why if I ever get my hands on you, you scruffy little rat-dog, it’s Davy Jones’s Locker fer ya.”

Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories Vol. 3  by Arthur S. Maxwell  ©1928, 1935, 1939, 1942, 1943, 1950, 1956

#Illustration #vintage illustration #19th century illustration #vintage toys #toy train #anger #funny #humor #humour

[maudeboggins]

Boxed set of cards, The Infant's cabinet of Fishes, published in England by John Marshall in 1801

#cabinet of fish #1800s #19th century #toys