"Keep Your Eyes Peeled For Mickey!"


Rare circa 1930's theater slide for upcoming Mickey Mouse cartoons.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

The Beers Family demonstrating dancing limberjacks


Click on the video to view.

From a YouTube video of Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest.

1818 Masonic Lodge Sign


An 1818 Masonic Lodge Sign that originally hung on the Waterford, Vermont Lodge of Masonry.

Sold by Olde Hope Antiques.

1840 Watercolor of a Georgia Cotton Mill



Recently sold on eBay is this great 19th century watercolor of a Georgia cotton mill. This is identified on the back as the Richmond Factory in Richmond County, GA.

Sold for $613.91.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Thursday, January 22, 2009

19th and 20th Century Wood




Nothing like old wood, the patina, smell, everything...

19th Century Folk Art Nutcracker




I usually run the other way from most carved nutcrackers since they inevitably are straightforward manufactured pieces, but this one caught my eye. Very nice form and an interesting face.

Snake gameboard - Reproduction of an earlier board


A very nice reproduction of an actual vintage board that has sold for something like $60,000 (forget the exact amount, but I think it holds the record for a gameboard).

This one, believe it or not, is new (and sold that way) and is very well done.

Abstract Painted Backdrops in the 1930's African American Photo Studio






Here's an amazing set of 1930's African American photos recently sold as a group by James Lamkin of Vintage Photographs.

Thursday, January 1, 2009

CDV of Man with Written Word Suit


Actually, it's the photographer's mark mistakenly printed on the photo.