Antique Chromolithograph German Die Cuts Scrap Children at Party

Please note that this is real, full size antique scrap, not a miniature.

20 years ago my grandfather gave me these exquisite chromolithograph die cut scrap pictures he'd kept in his cellar since the 1920's and 1930's.

My grandfather was a candy maker and bought these embossed scrap pictures to use inside panorama Easter eggs. He gave me the ones he still had left. He told me that after the war, these pictures became impossible to find because all of the factories had been bombed during WW II.

If you've never seen a panorama Easter Egg, it was an egg, made of sugar or chocolate that was hollow. A round hole was left in one end and covered with plastic or glass - if you looked inside the egg, you saw a beautiful scene that looked 3-D filled with pictures of flowers and children playing and all sorts of things!

The scrap pictures themselves are absolutely exquisite. This sheet is of adorable little boys and girls!

There are lots of cute little boys and girls getting ready for a party! They have biiiig brightly wrapped presents and bouquets of flowers too. In some of the pictures they're on the telephone calling friends on the phone inviting them to the party! I wonder if the little dog is gonig to the party too?

There are a bunch of different pictures - it's a bit difficult to count this one as they're all different shapes in the middle row.

I believe Victorian women and children used to put these into their scrap albums. These are pretty enough to be framed if you're not an ephemera collector!

The sheet itself measures 9 1/4" wide by and 6 1/2" high. Each individual piece is about 2" high by 1 1/2" wide. The sheet is also marked with the initials EAS and has a number on it - #3167 and says: "Printed in Germany".