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A Poignant Pause
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Thoughts On Gypsy Rose Lee
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A Different Kind Of Convertible
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Going To Hell In A Handbag?
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Winning The Book On Fashion
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A Poignant Pause
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Thoughts On Gypsy Rose Lee
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A Different Kind Of Convertible
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Going To Hell In A Handbag?
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Winning The Book On Fashion
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antiques Archive
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Excuse Me, May I Show A Movie On Your Antique Purse?
On Saturday I got my first real antique purses — and, as usual, I’m obsessing over researching what I can about them. Today I’m going to inform you about the…
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When Beauty Is A Crime
I have a modest collection of vintage vanity items. (My collection and I have even been featured in Collectors News magazine.) And indeed, I’ve often wondered about the vast popularity…
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History Is Ephemeral, Issue #7
Welcome to edition number seven of the History Is Ephemeral Carnival, where ephemera lovers share the history behind their obsessions. If you’ve got posts about old paper and other ephemera,…
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New Vintage Reviews Carnival, 7th Edition
Welcome to the seventh edition of the New Vintage Reviews Carnival, where we review “old stuff” — from the classics to the forgotten — that is likely new to someone……
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History Is Ephemeral Carnival, 6th Edition (A Thursday Thirteen Edition)
Welcome to edition number six of the History Is Ephemeral Carnival, where ephemera lovers share the history behind their obsessions. (If you’ve got posts about old paper and other ephemera,…
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Cheap Thrills Thursday: Of Storks In My Collection & Contraception
A few months ago, a gentleman contacted me about one of the items in my “vintage stork” collection. The antique postcard, postmarked 1908, depicts a couple shoo-ing away a baby-delivering…
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Direct Marketing Crank Response, 1917
An amazing entry I found in The Journal of American History, Volume XI, January-February-March, No. 1, (copyright, 1917, The National Historical Society) which speaks as much to direct marketing responses…
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History Is Ephemeral Carnival, 5th Edition
Welcome to edition number five of the History Is Ephemeral Carnival, where ephemera & history lovers share & obsess. (If you’ve got posts about old paper, please submit them to…
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Did Margaret Sanger Sell Dainty Maid Outfits?
First my disclaimer: I sadly do not own this old advertisement & instructions for the “Dainty Maid Outfit” (douche bag, antiseptic powder, and syringe); I found it while searching at…
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Ephemera Really Blows My Skirt Up
When I snatched-up this antique postcard, I was so seduced by its charms that I thought I had something few had ever seen since the 1900′s; but, as it turns…
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Popular Racism, 1857
In 1857 (a year before Darwin’s The Origin of Species), creationists Dr. Josiah C. Nott and George Gliddon published Indigenous Races of the Earth, which included illustrations comparing the skulls…
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Why Love Old Paper?
At Forgotten Bookmarks, a visit to This Old Paper prompts this post pondering old paper: Looking though their site, I wonder what it is about these old things that fascinates…
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History Is Ephemeral Carnival, 3rd Edition
Welcome to the third edition of the History Is Ephemeral Carnival, where collectors of ephemera & history lovers share & obsess. (If you’ve got old paper & their stories to…
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Excuse Me, M’am… But There Seems To Be A Dead Bird On Your Head
Just a collection of what I’d call A-Nesting Fashion Hats — “bad bird hats,” if you prefer. Enjoy — and don’t have chicken for dinner. *wink* And remember kids, a…
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Things I Want In My Hubbard Cupboard
The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest was published by Elbert Hubbard, and so is yet another thing Roycrofter-tian. One of my husband’s obsessions, I am granted free access to and…
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The Anti-Educational Antiques & Collectibles Education Article
On Sunday, I posted a review of sorts about an article titled People turn to education when times are tough, by Eric C. Rodenberg, which was published in Antique Week…
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Solving My Own Nerdy Needs
I have two problems when I turn to Google or any internet search engine: one is what’s missing, and the other is that I don’t know about something in order…
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You Can’t Judge A Racist Nun By Her Habit, Part Two
More vintage sheet music owned by Sister Patricia; this time, Story Poems with Musical Settings by Phyllis Fergus. The song, The Woodpecker (copyright 1925 by Clayton F. Summy Co.), takes…
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You Can’t Judge A Racist Nun By Her Habit
Normally the most interesting thing to me about vintage sheet music is the cover art; this is because I’m musically illiterate and can’t use it for anything but decoration and/or…
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The Naughty Little Clock
The amazingly cute and gay lyrics to The Naughty Little Clock: There once was a frivolous and giddy little clock, A little French clock very gay; Very trim and very…
