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  • Collecting Vintage Calendars

     A calendar, like a watch is a system of telling time, typically days, weeks, months and years. Calendars are often a physical device usually made of paper. Vintage calendars can be classified into hanging calendars, postcard calendars and mechanical postcard calendars.More

  • Collecting Autographs - Handwritten History

     Most autograph collectors start out by seeking out sports and entertainment figures and asking them for their autograph. In most cases these autographs are free and very personal. However, collectors soon become more serious and start collecting autographs that can be grouped into three categories, Historical, Political and Science or Inventor.More

  • Why A Twenty Cent Piece in 1875?

     The United States Twenty Cent Coin, often called a twenty cent piece, was a unit of currency equaling 1/5th of a United States dollar. The twenty cent coin had one of the shortest mintages and lowest circulations in US coin history, for both the series and the denomination. It was minted from 1875-1878, but was only released for circulation in 1875 and 1876, with only a few hundred proofs released during the remaining two years (1877 and 1878).More

  • Collecting Old Paper Items – Booklets, Brochures and Catalogs – Part 2

     What is a booklets? Most small booklets are advertising or tip booklets. These small booklets, usually 15 to 25 pages and measure about 4 X 10 inches, educate a target audience with products, tips, techniques or strategies.More

  • Collecting Old Paper Items – Booklets, Brochures and Catalogs – Part 1

     "Oh, I burned those a long time ago. I did not think they were any good".How many times has the collector of just about anything you can think of heard those words?More

  • Collecting Vintage Playing Cards

     Since their initial development, the history or origin of playing cards have been associated with gambling, fortune telling, magic and games. They appear to have evolved from the use of natural objects such as bones and shells. Playing cards appeared in France in the late 1300s and the standard suit symbols used in the United States today, spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs, were first designed by the French.More

  • Collecting Vintage Desk Ink Blotters

     Back in the days when everyone used quill pens and fountain pens the one thing that could be found on every office or writing desk was an ink blotter. Ink blotters were usually made of a soft absorbent paper formed into a card and were used to dry up excess ink.With the invention of ballpoint pen in the 1950s, ink blotters disappeared from the average office desk.More

  • Collecting Vintage Inkwells and Ink Bottles

     Prior to the modern fountain of the late 1800s most writing was done with quill dip pens or steel pointed straight pens dipped in inkwells. The most popular materials for antique inkwells were glass and pottery because these substances resisted the corrosive effects of ink. Glass was the most common material used in the making of inkwells but porcelain, stone, wood and shells were also used.More

  • Collecting Matchcovers – Match Book Covers

     The first matches were produced by an English chemist named John Walker in the early 1800s. While conducting experiments with a flammable liquid some of the mixture dropped on the floor and flared up. From this he discovered the process of making matches.More

  • Vintage Nodders - Bobbing Head Dolls

     A Nodder, also known as a bobble head doll, bobbing head doll, bobble heads, and wobbler is a type of collectible doll. Its head is often oversized compared to its body. Instead of a solid connection, its head is connected to the body by a spring in such a way that a light tap will cause the head to nod, bobble, or wobble.More