Re: Recent purchases
Sun Oct 29, 2023 3:01 pm
Vintage Paper Fair time again, folks! CardCow was absent again, but I did better than at the last show: 22 postcards for a total of $40. Here are a few highlights:
I don't know if I'm allowed to post my favorite of today's postcard purchases here, though. It's a relatively recent postcard (I'd guess 1980s, possibly later) of a vintage photograph, entitled "Life Class, Chicago Art Institute, 1905." It shows a group of about three dozen men, mostly young, nearly all wearing suits. It looks like fairly typical college class photo from the time, I suppose, apart from the woman posing in their midst, completely nude. You can see a censored version of the photo here.
I don't know if I'm allowed to post my favorite of today's postcard purchases here, though. It's a relatively recent postcard (I'd guess 1980s, possibly later) of a vintage photograph, entitled "Life Class, Chicago Art Institute, 1905." It shows a group of about three dozen men, mostly young, nearly all wearing suits. It looks like fairly typical college class photo from the time, I suppose, apart from the woman posing in their midst, completely nude. You can see a censored version of the photo here.
Re: Recent purchases
Mon Oct 30, 2023 12:36 am
Meh,
scoffs at piddly Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
You wouldn't happen to know the name of the woman in the 4th image, or any context? Are those planets around her neck?
scoffs at piddly Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
You wouldn't happen to know the name of the woman in the 4th image, or any context? Are those planets around her neck?
Re: Recent purchases
Mon Oct 30, 2023 6:36 am
I'd like to find a postcard from there.
I don't know the model's name, but I do believe those are supposed to be planets or some sort of celestial objects. The photo is by Uwe Kuessner and entitled "Space Age theme for graduation parade at the June Dolly-Watkins' Department and Modelling school, Sydney, 1969", from the State Library of New South Wales. The postcard was published by AvantCard Australia in 2002.
Zunu wrote:You wouldn't happen to know the name of the woman in the 4th image, or any context? Are those planets around her neck?
I don't know the model's name, but I do believe those are supposed to be planets or some sort of celestial objects. The photo is by Uwe Kuessner and entitled "Space Age theme for graduation parade at the June Dolly-Watkins' Department and Modelling school, Sydney, 1969", from the State Library of New South Wales. The postcard was published by AvantCard Australia in 2002.
Re: Recent purchases
Wed Jan 10, 2024 2:56 am
I ordered the UK's new Spice Girls stamps (to be issued Thursday) from the Royal Mail website.
Mel B mentioned the stamps during her appearance on The Tonight Show last night.
Mel B mentioned the stamps during her appearance on The Tonight Show last night.
Re: Recent purchases
Wed Jan 10, 2024 3:43 pm
Re: Recent purchases
Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:53 pm
Today I went to the Vintage Paper Fair again, and I spent a total of $40.50 on 37 items.
CardCow was finally back with his 25 cent boxes, where I found some great bargains, including six postcards written in Esperanto from 1908 to 1913 and this wonderful pocket-sized Tokyo subway map and timetable from 1981 (5 x 3.75 inches, why not a metric size?). The timetable shows times and fares between major stations, so we can see, for example, that a ride from Shibuya to Asakusa on the Ginza Line took 35 minutes and cost ¥140.
Speaking of Asakusa, I had to buy this $4 postcard showing the ruins of Asakusa Nakamise after the Great Kantō Earthquake and Fire of 1923.
And what trip to the Vintage Paper Fair would be complete without some beautiful women in the mix? Here's my favorite from today's purchases, a $4 postcard mailed in Germany in 1917.
CardCow was finally back with his 25 cent boxes, where I found some great bargains, including six postcards written in Esperanto from 1908 to 1913 and this wonderful pocket-sized Tokyo subway map and timetable from 1981 (5 x 3.75 inches, why not a metric size?). The timetable shows times and fares between major stations, so we can see, for example, that a ride from Shibuya to Asakusa on the Ginza Line took 35 minutes and cost ¥140.
Speaking of Asakusa, I had to buy this $4 postcard showing the ruins of Asakusa Nakamise after the Great Kantō Earthquake and Fire of 1923.
And what trip to the Vintage Paper Fair would be complete without some beautiful women in the mix? Here's my favorite from today's purchases, a $4 postcard mailed in Germany in 1917.
Re: Recent purchases
Mon Apr 29, 2024 10:54 am
More postcards! Yesterday I went to the WESTPEX stamp show, where I bought some stamps, collecting supplies, and an assortment of used and unused postcards.
Here's the most expensive of the postcards ($10). A wild image with a local connection, dating from the 1920s or 1930s.
This was also a must-buy, for only $3. The copyright date is 1907, making it one of the earliest American divided-back postcards (the U.S. Post Office first allowed divided-back postcards in March of that year). I find the image interesting and the lesbian vibe of the typed message even more so.
Here's the most expensive of the postcards ($10). A wild image with a local connection, dating from the 1920s or 1930s.
This was also a must-buy, for only $3. The copyright date is 1907, making it one of the earliest American divided-back postcards (the U.S. Post Office first allowed divided-back postcards in March of that year). I find the image interesting and the lesbian vibe of the typed message even more so.
Re: Recent purchases
Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:16 am
"How'd you like to be the sea serpent?" sounds exactly like a thirsty Reddit reply to some jpeg of Sydney Sweeney or whoever riding on a pool float. I guess some things never change!
Seems Wellman is a veritable wellspring of flirtatiously corny captions:
Seems Wellman is a veritable wellspring of flirtatiously corny captions: