MemoriesandMiscellany
A Blog About More Things Than You Can Shake a Stick At
Friday, January 20, 2012
Harvey F. Crawford and His Shoes Under Glass
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For reasons I have yet to fathom, certain businesses commonly provided glass paperweights to advertise their products or services. Among th...
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Friday, January 6, 2012
Pantin Paperweights: Snakes in the Glass
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My fascination with snakes and other reptiles in ceramic also translates into glass, in this case glass paperweights. The most famous and ...
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
Whence Ephemera Collecting in an E-Age?
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Recently the Washington Post ran a lengthy article on collectors of ephemera, that is, people who all kinds of items that are made of paper ...
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Buggy Makers: Gone But Not Forgotten
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It is customary to say when something becomes obsolete that it “went the way of the horse and buggy.” Certainly the invention of ...
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Saturday, November 19, 2011
Alphonse Mucha and His Art Nouveau Drink Posters
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In past posts, readers of this blog have seen my interest in “Art Nouveau,” the artistic movement that took hold in the latter part of the 1...
Friday, November 4, 2011
Anna Pottery and Alcohol
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In an earlier post entitled “Snakes in Clay” (September 2010), I traced the history from 16th Century France to the present day of creating...
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