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DANCE PROGRAMMES OR CARNETS DE BAL - A large collection of Swiss, German, Austrian and American dance programmes, mainly late 19th- and early 20th-century, ranging from simple engraved cards to highly elaborate mounted velvet and gilt carnet and trinkets, some inscribed, smallest approx. 47 x 37mm., largest approx. 114 x 54mm.
DANCE PROGRAMMES OR CARNETS DE BAL - A large collection of Swiss, German, Austrian and American dance programmes, mainly late 19th- and early 20th-century, ranging from simple engraved cards to highly elaborate mounted velvet and gilt carnet and trinkets, some inscribed, smallest approx. 47 x 37mm., largest approx. 114 x 54mm.

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DANCE PROGRAMMES OR CARNETS DE BAL - A large collection of Swiss, German, Austrian and American dance programmes, mainly late 19th- and early 20th-century, ranging from simple engraved cards to highly elaborate mounted velvet and gilt carnet and trinkets, some inscribed, smallest approx. 47 x 37mm., largest approx. 114 x 54mm.


Carnets de bal were intended for ladies to note down the names of prospective partners during a ball or a party. Consisting mainly of blank leaves of paper, many have very charming lithographed or engraved illustrations of dancing couples above blank spaces left for the insertion of the names of dancing partners. (qty)

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