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The articles are very interesting, the photos are great, but the cover is a real masterpiece! don't you think?
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The Killer Mobile Device for Victorian Women
Adrift in a sea of digital apps for every imaginable function, we often feel our needs are met better today than in any previous era. But consider the chatelaine, a device popularized in the 18th century that attached to the waist of a wo…
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If These Shirts Could Talk: The Tantalizing Tales Behind Used Clothes
The mysterious packages kept arriving, some from eBay, others from the Home …
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Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
The meerschaum pipes carved in Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th century are among the most bizarre and improbable concoctions in decorative art. Some feature …
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In the Hot Seat: Is Your Antique Windsor a Fake?
While researching her book, "Killer Stuff and Tons of Money," Maureen Stanton came across all sorts of characters. For years, she shadowed her antiques-dealer friend …
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Bizarro Beauty Products, from 1889 to Now
We tend to think of the union of vanity and technology as a particularly modern affliction. It's only recently that science brought the world botox and collagen injections, skin peels, liposucti…
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Love at First Kite: How Pizza and Pente Led to One Oklahoman's High-Flying Obsession
Vintage kites from all over the world hang from the ceiling and walls of Richard Dermer’s popula…
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Pin-Up Queens: Three Female Artists Who Shaped the American Dream Girl
It’s easy to think of pin-up art as a charming relic of the old boys’ club—images that might line the walls …
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Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgeon's Quest to Reimagine the Garage-Band Guitar
It’s not unusual for men of a certain age to have a soft spot in their hearts for the look of vintage guitars and the sound…
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Tokens for Sweethearts, in Times of War
A keepsake, an item that recognizes a loved one, strikes a deep, sentimental chord in each of us—particularly that of a sweetheart. The popularity of keepsakes grew in the United States during the period from 1917 to 1919 as our country ent…
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American Picker Dream, Part I: Mike Wolfe On His Love Affair With Bikes
I was walking to school one day and saw all these bikes in the garbage. I was just amazed because I didn't have one and I found it incredible that anyone was throwing them out. So I gathered…
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An amzing print of a cover! Who did the art work? Gilt and how many colours! 7? Is that Gough Street?
it does look like gough or franklin. not sure who the artist is. will check when i get back from camping...
Divine cover art!!
gorgeous, frame it!
i'd love to hunter, but i'd have to tear apart the magazine, and although i'm very tempted to do that often, a part of me thinks that i should keep the magazines together. i'm about to tear up and frame my Leon Bakzt Russian Ballet brochure which has one of the graphics already cut out of it. but some of the gorgeous images are back-to-back w/ others. i may try to frame it so that i can turn it around to see either image periodically.
yeah, it's a hard decision to make: I think if you feel a single (or series) of images is more important than the text, it's fine to take apart a magazine or document. For me, if I think that it's something I will look at and appreciate more in a frame/on a wall than bound together, that's how I make the decision.
I also have a postcard in a double-sided frame on a shelf (with glass on both sides) that's pretty lovely - a very nice way to display two-sided paper pieces...
love love love this book:)