King Arthur & His Knights | Maude L. Radford | 1903Classic retelling of the Arthurian legends by childrens author and University of Chicago professor Maude L. Radford (aka Maude Radford Warren), consolidated from Tennysons Idylls of the King and Mallorys La Morte dArthur with black & white illustrations by Walter Enright. Bound in dark red cloth covers with a gold and black illustration of a knight and banner blindstamped on the cover. Condition is good with some edgewear, scuffing, and a crack

but in direct light you can see it’s very dark blue

save for one small area of insect damage at the top left corner of the back

This fabulous real photo postcard from the 1900s depicts a row of fencing girls with their foils and my favorite fencing costumes with a heart over the breast

Red cloth coverboards with gilt decorations

large format Victorian funeral photo depicting a memorial arrangement with a taxidermy dove perched upon “The Gates Ajar

This antique autograph album with Athena on the cover is full of entries dated 1890s from the Ontario area

which would have been silver plated originally

appearing both in Catholic iconography as the lamb of god or sacrificial lamb and in Victorian cemetery monuments and memorials

The piece has a few flaws: A chip at the base & the basket is missing its handle

Some chipping to the gilt embellishments

The sleeve is splitting and the record shows some where

Refer to photos for size & condition: Overall good with some darkening to the alabaster & a hairline crack on the bottom