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Category Archives: Collectibles
With the weight of the world under me…
Feeling a little weighed down? Imagine life as a paperweight. These days, glass paperweights are widely produced, collected and appreciated as works of art. They were originally produced in France, ca. 1845 and their popularity rose during the mid 20th … Continue reading
Posted in Collectibles, Glass, Paperweights
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Strike a light!
Matchboxes – When I think about matches and fire, I think of songs which are totally unrelated, but have the word match in them. For example, the movie “Fiddler on the Roof‘” – has a song about a matchmaker, but … Continue reading
Posted in #Matchboxes, Collectibles
Tagged matchbox collecting, matchboxes, phillumenists, philluminey
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“If it’s frigid…it’s cold”…”if you know what I mean”…
As a teenager you learn new words, or new meanings for existing words. As a really mean example, a person may be referred to as ‘frigid’ – meaning they are really cold (in any sense of the term). So recently, … Continue reading
Look What’s Hatched!
Have you noticed how all the latest crazes around town involve the latest term of “a pop-up”? The more common form of pop-ups involve food or entertainment. Regular townies can be exposed to or come across various pop-up food stalls, … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Collectibles, QuestionableArt, TheGood
Tagged #IllustrativeArt, pop-up books, pop-ups
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Greedy for 3-D
3D cards – using lenticular printing is a technology in which normally flat, static images can convey depth and motion. Lenticular graphics can be described as specialized images which when viewed under certain circumstances will produce 3-D or animated sequences. … Continue reading
Oh deer!
Like the first cuckoo in spring, so is the first sighting of car-antlers adorning our present-laden vehicles, before Christmas Day, providing Christmas bling for your car. However, time is of the essence. Christmas has been and gone, and it’s time … Continue reading
Posted in #Badges&Buttons, Collectibles
Tagged #Christmas, #Kitsch, car-bling, christmas antlers
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Dashing through the snow, in a one-horse open sleigh…
Here’s an early nod to Christmas. Snow-domes aka snow-globes, snow-storms or water-globes are spheres enclosed with water where the water serves as the medium through which the “snow” falls. Snow-domes first appeared at the Paris Universal Expo of 1878, and … Continue reading
Posted in Collectibles, Snowdomes
Tagged #Christmas, #Kitsch, Citizen Kane, entertainment, Fargo, League of Gentlemen, schneekugel, snow-domes, snow-globes, snow-storms, water-globes
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Animal magnetism
You bet I’m stuck on you! This threesome remind me of a modern-day three wise monkeys – Fridge magnets -Whether you like them or not, they’re everywhere. I wonder if anyone has ever thought of doing a fridge magnet census. … Continue reading
Posted in #FridgeMagnets, Collectibles, QuestionableArt
Tagged #kitchenalia, #Kitsch, Art, fridge magnets, magnetic art, memomagnetics, QuestionableArt
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A wipe of tea towels (dish towels)
Plenty of people collect tea towels and there is probably a collector’s term ending in -ology which relates to it, but what about a collective noun. Could it be something like a ‘wipe of tea towels?’. Wikipedia provides some historical … Continue reading
Posted in Collectibles, Tea Towels
Tagged Art, collectible art, Collectibles, dish towels, Irish linen, linen cloth, tea towels
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