Green Paper

Coming Soon...

Possibly just eBay, but maybe some Etsy... 

 

 

 

My Favorite Cards in the Whole World

 

Cards from 2 different versions of Logomachy, late 1800's.

A Ridiculous Sadness

It's laughable, I know...the last of the bank tags sold on eBay today and I'm feeling a little sad.

Yes, a few are still left on Etsy, but just a few. I've kept a handful back for myself (and sent one or two to friends) but that's it...

Why am I sad? The point was to sell them, right?

Here's the weirdest thing: I just like having them "in stock". I like having a cool brass tag available as an item I sell. 

I have a variety of "shoulds" I have secretly attached to my eBay store:

• The 30 page mixed assortment must always be available, on Buy-It-Now and on Fixed Price, not the Store!
• There should be at least a couple of other papers or mixes - right now I have the small page assortment (which is oddly popular - a story for another time) and the Baedeker/Muirhead travel pages. (which are hopelessly cool and a little know gem)
• Handwritten pages are important, ledger pages the most traditional.
• There should be something metal, preferably a tag or embellishment of some sort.  Small, versatile.  It really ought to have a number on it. 
• There should always be some sort of bingo cards and flash cards. Lately, I've also been keeping some price tags or signs around.
• There should be a playing card assortment, and they ought to be old obscure card games, rather than traditional playing cards.    
• I also like to have Victorian scrap, old postcards or greeting cards, game pieces, CDVs or Cab Cards, little glass vials, jewelry, etc. I have been lax in all of those areas lately.

Anyway, the point is that I hate to be out of a metal number of some sort. They're so darn hard to replace because they can be so hard to find.

Which brings up all of the things I grab when I see them in nice quantities and in good condition at a fair price...like 1913 Flinch cards... Commissioner of Patent Reports books, only Volume II of Manufacturing...soda fountain tin spoons...Larousse French dictionaries, pre-1930...glass watchmaker vials...Logomachy cards with the birds...and more.

And there are the things I don't let myself buy...and the things I will never buy again...and the things I selfishly only buy for myself...and the astonishing lucky finds I've come across a time or two.  But those are stories for another day.

New ATCs

  

Am I the last person on earth to get some Paper Whimsy images?

Opacity: Abandoned Photography and Urban Exploration

If you're intrigued by the decayed, crumbling, and abandoned, you'll be in Opacity all day...

 

   

 

 

Our Bird Friends - An Educational Game

 

Coming Soon...

     

 

 

  

My new favorite thing...

Sometimes I find something I am so crazy about...and it usually has a number on it!  Here is my latest find: safe deposit box tags.

I spotted them in a favorite store, but they cost soooo much more than I planned to spend this weekend. I went back to them 3 different times on my trip through the store. Finally I just picked them up. I would have regretted it later, to leave them behind.  

I ended up getting all of them, so more will be added to the eBay auction when I have them all sorted and bagged up.