Posted 3 years ago
potrero
(155 items)
Came across this cool old (how old?) Lincoln cent book at Renninger's antiques market in Adamstown, PA. If you're interested in learning more about coin collecting boards, cousins to these books, check out David Lange's site, Coincollectingboards.net.
David, any idea about the date or publisher of this particular book?
Part of my summer 2010 whirlwind east coast antiques tour.
If These Shirts Could Talk: The Tantalizing Tales Behind Used Clothes
Jockeying for Position: How Boxers and Briefs Got Into Men's Pants
Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
In the Hot Seat: Is Your Antique Windsor a Fake?
Bizarro Beauty Products, from 1889 to Now
Love at First Kite: How Pizza and Pente Led to One Oklahoman's High-Flying Obsession
Pin-Up Queens: Three Female Artists Who Shaped the American Dream Girl
Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgeon's Quest to Reimagine the Garage-Band Guitar
Tokens for Sweethearts, in Times of War
American Picker Dream, Part I: Mike Wolfe On His Love Affair With Bikes



Your album is from the "Popular" line of coin albums published by Wayte Raymond in New York. This is the lower cost companion to his senior line of "National" coin albums. The Popular line was in production 1945-60, and the album shown is one of the earlier printings before 1955.