Antique 1800's VICTORIAN SCRAPBOOK Handmade Cloth Album FOLK ART Trade Card Ads

Description

Up for sale is this antique handmade Victorian scrapbook.  The book is made entirely of cloth with some fraying around the edges.  It is full with 18 cloth pages with adhered trade cards and ephemera.  Some of the cards have some chipping, creasing, and areas of loss.  A few of the cloth pages have some small holes.  The book measures approximately 10 inches by 7 1/2 inches.  It is American in origin and is most likely circa sometime around the 1880's.  Please look at all of the pictures to further note the condition as all of the pages are shown in the photos.