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Of Knights and Matches
Isn’t this a neat matchbook? I don’t remember where I came across it, but it was years ago. I held onto it because I found it pleasing and only recently rediscovered it when I was going through some stuff. It now has a place in a printers box hanging on the wall.
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8 Babies and 4 Bugs
Several months ago I came across a very memorable postcard. I finally got it scanned and added to the postcard page. It’s interesting enough that I thought I would make a post about it here. It’s an old card, with one cent postage domestic and two cents foreign. I don’t know what in the world…
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Postcard
I recently received a new postcard in the mail for my collection. It features the Russian writer Anton Chekhov (and a couple of cute dogs!). It’s the third postcard I’ve gotten with a picture of Chekhov. He is one of my favorite writers. This card is blank and unposted. Here’s the front:
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Whaling
This set of whaling-themed tobacco cards from Ogden’s was released in 1927. It’s a 25 card set with beautiful images of ships, whales, sailors, and equipment. I can’t help but be reminded of Melville’s great chronicle of the sea, and Ahab’s obsessive quest for the solitary leviathan called by sailors Moby Dick. “But as for…
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Sea Adventure
I added a new set of tobacco cards to my small collection. As you can see from the back of the card, it is called Sea Adventure and consists of 50 cards. There are quite a few beautiful images in the set, and I think this Robinson Crusoe one is a good example.