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David O. Woodbury takes 3 columns of a 4 column page with this article, which begins seriously enough with a paragraph about astronomers searching for new worlds and another about research in biochemistry leading to an eventual cure for cancer.
But a lot of the rest of this article is the fun stuff, my favorite [...]
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I really don’t think I get more value from any other service. Really, I buy tons of DVDs, obviously with classic movies and movie stars being the theme of this site, enough books that I have boxes of them in the attic, the basement, overflowing the shelves, and I buy my fair share [...]
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Great, potentially important, post by Marty Weil today over at the ephemera blog:
The Weil-Ptak “Standardized” Ephemera Scale
In short, the scale, brainchild of Marty Weil and John F. Ptak, who operates an online bookstore, delves into the details of 6 factors to categorize ephemera items from “least ephemeral to most.”
I don’t want to copy [...]
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I’m going to get these couple of links over to the Collecting Old Magazines home page when I get to its redesign, but as for now figure I’d post them here. Here are a couple of recent chats I had centered on magazine collecting:
Is It Worth Keeping Old Magazines at LoveToKnow.com
And more recently:
Vintage [...]
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1926 Gallaher “Cinema Stars” Tobacco Cards issued by Gallaher Ltd. out of Belfast & London. 100 card set. Measures 1-1/2″ x 2-1/2″.
1948 Dinkie Grips card from Series 3 covering MGM films. Full cards with unpunctured “grips” area at bottom measure approximately 2-1/8″ X 4-1/4″. Issued out of Birmingham, England by Dinkie Products with ad on back for Dinkie Grips as well as other Dinkie Products (Dinkie Curlers and Wavesetters).
1939 Gallaher “My Favourite Part” Tobacco Cards issued out of London, measuring approximately 1-1/2″ X 2-1/2″.
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