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Old Still Tin Litho AMSCO SHU-SHINE BANK FOR KIDDIES! - eBay (item 310073654255 end time Aug-12-08 19:01:33 PDT)This vintage bank is in the form of a shoe shine kit. It's made of tin, painted red and has great vintage decals. It says, "Amsco Shu-Shine Bank for Kiddies" and "Kidd-E Shu-Shine Bank by Amsco." The colorful graphics look like art from the late forties.
There's a coin slot on one end where the decal shows two kids' faces, a nickel, dime and penny. It seems to me a bank ought to have a lid or other closure, but I see no evidence of one on this or any other bank like this online. The metal loops on each end were for a red plastic shoulder strap that's now gone.
It's shaped like an old-fashioned shoe shine kit complete with the ridged step handle for resting a customer's foot while getting a shine. I don't know if it originally came with shoe shine gear or not.
Anna Ayers STYLES FOR 1912 Mail Order Hair, Feathers! - eBay (item 310073296048 end time Aug-11-08 18:58:43 PDT)This vintage mail order catalog booklet is called "Styles for 1912" and says, "A Peep Inside Will Make You Beautiful." It came from Mrs. Anna Ayers, Importer and Manufacturer in Chicago, Ill.
This booklet features "Beautifying Requisites, Human Hair Goods, Pure Cosmetics, Toilet Articles, Hair Bleaches, Hair Colorings, Etc. Ostrich Feathers."
Here's a bit of what Anna Ayers said:Clothes may hide defects in physique, but the face, if it is beautiful and crowned with luxuriant hair, wields influence supreme. Mere man is susceptible. A pretty face attracts more than a huge bank account, and for hundreds of years, in fact since the time of Adam and Eve, women's greatest asset in life's battle has been a beautiful face and a crowning mass of beautiful hair.
My service is for those who have not been blessed with the natural charms but who strive to acquire them, and for those who wish to preserve their natural beauty and avoid the ravages of time. By dint of exhaustive study and research I have perfected ways and means that if properly used are certain of success.
The products are presented in drawings, fascinating for their styles, usage and prices. If you love old advertisements, this booklet is a treasure trove.
1953 Geraldine Clyne MISTRESS MARY POP-UP 3-D Rhyme Art - eBay (item 310073294167 end time Aug-11-08 18:50:47 PDT)This vintage pop-up is by Geraldine Clyne, illustrating the children's rhyme Mistress Mary. It's marked, "Mistress Mary, Geraldine Clyne, ©J.S. Pub. Co., New York, U.S.A. Patent Pending." I see no date on it, but it was published in 1953 according to another seller online.
I found the following information at: http://www.popuplady.com/mov-history2.htm Also from New York was Geraldine Clyne who produced the Jolly Jump-up series from the late 1930s to the 1950s. She used fan-folded pop-ups, which are simple accordion, cut-and-folded illustrations. Her subjects ranged from the poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson, to life-styles in the new suburbia, to the imagined frontier of space travel.
1983 DONNA SUMMER STANDEE Waitress She Works Hard Promo - eBay (item 310072774446 end time Aug-09-08 19:20:19 PDT)This Donna Summer standee features the popular singer dressed in a waitress outfit, likely to promote her hit, "She Works Hard For the Money." She's wearing the same outfit in a different pose on the record and CD covers. It says, "Donna Summer on Mercury Records & Tapes."
The fine print at the bottom says, "©1983 Phonogram International. Manufactured and Marketed by Polygram Records, Inc. Printed in U.S.A."
It's made of very stiff paperboard with a fold-out bracket that locks open so she stands upright, almost 19 inches high.
Mirage Press CLARK ASHTON SMITH ORIGINAL by Joe Wehrle! - eBay (item 310071802911 end time Aug-05-08 19:46:17 PDT)This Clark Ashton Smith portrait original was created by Joe Wehrle, Jr. in 1973. It was used in Mirage Press books, as the cover for Planets and Dimensions and as the frontispiece for The Fantastic Art of Clark Ashton Smith. It was recently licensed for Tees from the Crypt which is good to know if you'd like a t-shirt with this portrait on it.
If Joe has done one thing that has been remembered from the 1970s until today, it's this portrait. We have received letters and emails from as far away as Germany, Italy and France about it, sometimes with requests to buy the original. We never intended to let it go, but could use some extra money now, so if anyone is willing to meet our price, it's yours. No reproduction rights are granted with this portrait.
This portrait was drawn with stipple technique, which means that all the tonal areas were built up one dot at a time, and all the tiny background circles were drawn by hand. If memory serves, it took about three weeks of rather intensive work. The bottom corners had to be re-inked at the end, because the ink was worn off during work on the face!
It's done on very heavy plate surface Strathmore illustration board in pen and India ink. The back is relatively clean. The art has been wrapped in vinyl for decades.
Wehrle is noted for work in Galaxy and IF digest science fiction magazines, covers and interior illustrations in Arkham House and other Mirage Press books, illustrations for Burroughs-oriented journals and on a lighter note, the story and drawings in the Big Little Book Cauliflower Catnip.
Vintage THE TRAPPER'S COMPANION, 1918 Trapping How-To! - eBay (item 310071534544 end time Aug-04-08 19:20:28 PDT)This vintage soft cover book The Trapper's Companion published in 1918 by Peltries Publishing Company Incorporated is the third edition with 160 pages.
The title page says:An Up-to-date replete with Trapping Methods, Approved Sets used by the Most Experienced Trappers, Instruction for Handling, Grading and Shipping Raw Furs, Traps, Bait, Scents, Fur Farming, Camp Building, Boat Building, Turtle Trapping, Bee Hunting, and many minor matters, embracing everything a trapper should know to insure success.
Contents in alphabetical list:- Badger Trapping
- Baits
- Bear Trapping
- Beaver Trapping
- Bee Hunting
- Boat--One Man Trapping
- Boots--How to Dry
- Box Trap
- Botanical Drugs--How to Collect
- Burning Glass
- Camp Building
- Carbolic Acid--Uses of
- Care of the Rifle
- Carrier for Game and Traps
- Chains
- Civet Cat Trapping
- Cleaning Fur
- Collecting Botanical Drugs
- Compass
- Cooking Game
- Crows
- Deadfalls
- Dogs
- Drags
- Drowners
- Drying Furs
- Drying Rack for Roots
- Early and Late Trapping
- Ermine Trapping
- Fastening Traps--Methods of
- Figure Four Trap
- Fish Oil
- Fisher Trapping
- Fox Trapping
- Fox Snaring
- Fur Farming
- Game--How to Cook
- Game--How to Keep
- Game Heads--How to Prepare for Mounting
- Grading Raw Furs
- Guns
- Hawks
- Handling Skins
- Hides
- Hot Water--Uses of
- Humane
- Indian Snowshoe Hitch
- Knife
- Late Trapping and Early
- Lemon--Uses of
- Lynx Trapping
- Marten Trapping
- Matches
- Mink Trapping
- Mole Trapping
- Muskrat--Preparing for Market
- Muskrat--Shooting
- Muskrat--Trapping
- Net Making
- Opossum Trapping
- Otter Trapping
- Owls
- Pack Sack--How to Make
- Pearl Hunting
- Photography
- Preparing Skins for Market
- Prime
- Raccoon Trapping
- Rifle--Care of
- Rubbers--How to Repair
- Rules for Sportsmen
- Salt
- Scents--How to Make
- Scraping Beam
- Skinning Device
- Skunk Trapping
- Snake Poison
- Snaring Foxes
- Snow Shoe Hitch--Indian
- Soap
- Springy
- Steel Traps--Sizes to Use
- Stretcher--Wire
- Stretching Board
- Stretching Skins
- Success in Trapping
- Tail Bone--How to Remove
- Tempering Steel
- Tents--How to Warm
- Tracks and Tracking
- Trail--How to Mark
- Trail Sets
- Trap Carrier
- Trapping Boat--One Man
- Turpentine--Use in Fur Business
- Turtle Trapping
- Venison--How to Cook
- Waterproofing Shoes
- Warming Tents
- Weasel Trapping
- Wildcat Trapping
- Winter Fishing
- Wire Stretcher
- Wolf Trapping
- Wolves--Hunting Young
- Wool Skins--How to Tan
This old book that fits in the palm of your hand has loads of diagrams, drawings, photos and tips to ensure your trapping success.
Vintage AGFA ANSCO BOX CAMERA Simple Basic Took B2 Film - eBay (item 310071517808 end time Aug-04-08 17:55:44 PDT)This vintage box camera is very basic. No lens, no settings, just point and shoot. It's marked, "Agfa Ansco" on the front where there's just the camera opening. The right side has the shutter and the film advance which you pull out to get the film holder out of the camera.
There's just one viewer, on the top along with a leather carry strap. The back snaps on at top and back, easy to remove and replace. Inside the back it says, "Use B2 Agfa All-Weather Film." The film holder comes out for loading and unloading.
The shutter works quick as a wink and the camera is tight and clean inside but with a musty smell when you take the back off. You can sort of see through the tiny viewing window. I don't know if B2 Agfa film is still made.
This camera likely took little square pictures where the people are tiny. You've seen the photos I mean, where granddad or grandma lined relatives up outside squinting into the sun for a family shot in black and white. Classic.
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