A cap and collar. Family traditiom says mid-19th C, probably German (maybe Saxony). Big enough to fit a small woman, or an older child....
Going through old photos, I came cross a couple of these advertising inserts. I like them because they are so quintessentially mid-century...
Got this in pocket change today: a well circulated U.S. nickel from 1944. That's old for pocket change around here... never mind being American...
4 of them as a lot. There were 8 categories, 8 colors of plastic and 200 coins in the set, so this is a very small sampling. None of them are...
Going through the family papers, I came across a bunch of these. This is a photograph of a letter written home by an uncle who served overseas in...
Not the best photos. Really needs controlled lighting, which I do not have, to make the pattern show. I'm calling the glass clambroth because it...
This Kellogg's Corn Flakes ad is from a 1936 newspaper: [ATTACH]
Meet Annie Hatfield and her daughter Maud: [ATTACH] I'm impressed by the feather in Maud's hat: [ATTACH]
Did you know that the first paperback edition of Lord of the Rings published in the U.S. was unauthorized? Through some glitch in the copyright,...
The only difference between this and a million others is that I know who these people are. Millboard, 16" by 20". [ATTACH] And I have the photo...
Family history says this boy grew up and married a great-aunt of mine. I don't know what (if any) relation that makes him to me, but I like this...
A dress and bloomers. They open at the bottom, but the top is closed. There is a loop for hanging. Each is about 6" by 5". Lots of knitters in...
Now I'm into an old suitcase (portmanteau) that is full of bits and pieces of fabric. I'm out of my depth. Not my field. This particular stuff...
The family story is that this was made by my grandmother from my grandfather's hand-me-downs for my father. That puts the date 1920/21. I know...
Another thing bought in the '70s. About 1 7/8" across (inside), 1 3/4" high. Conveniently dated 1907. Weighs 52g. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Well... maybe not. In the mid-1950s, Quaker Oats held a cereal promotion in which a deed for a square inch of land near...
Another thingie from the '70s. (Can you tell I'm delving deep into things long in storage?) It's ceramic, so I suppose it's studio pottery....
I bought this small piece of treen about 45 years ago at a country auction for 25¢. It’s a simple cylindrical box of lathe turned wood about...
I used to have books, but not anymore. I think these should be simple - not rare or exotic or anything. 8 1/4" high, pressed to resemble a...
This is about as ephemeral as ephemera gets. Before the release of The Two Towers movie in December 2002, an exhibit was held in the McLaughlin...
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