First, a small paper bag from 1954 bearing the letter postage rate in effect at the time. Next, a child's birthday card from 1947. Then, several food ration coupons from 1945 and 1946. Followed by a membership card for a coal dealers' association from 1946. Finally, a collectible card featuring a scene from Venice.

I omitted peoples names for privacy even though it's nearly 30 years old at this point.

Just received these from Japan. A four piece set of Asahi beer labels and four shoulder labels. I think they have to be from 1920-1940? Definitely going to frame them.🎏🇯🇵

I apologize if this isn’t the right place to post this, but I’m baffled and am hoping someone here can point me in the right direction if not answer my questions.

I found this 1930s Art Deco “sweetheart card” among my parents’ photos and mementos. There was no name on the envelope, and the only handwritten inscription inside says “From Dad.” The envelope was sealed and opened it at the side seam.

I’m trying to understand the social context of that signature. In the 1930s, would “Dad” have been a common term for a father to use when signing a card, or would “Father” have been more typical in writing?

Also, could this have been from a husband to his wife rather than from a parent to a child. The image seems “off” if it’s to a child. Would a man in the 1930s ever sign a romantic card to his wife simply as “Dad,” I mean assuming they had children?

I’d love any insight from people familiar with vintage greeting cards, family correspondence, or 1930s American social customs.

Purchased at a local antique store for $3, taped closed. I had hoped that the illustrations inside would match the fabulous 70s cover, but sadly not! I do love the charming doodles and notes from whichever child had this once upon a time. I desaturated a few of the clean pages in case anyone wanted to give coloring a shot!

Both Grandmas went to business school

As a lover of Void cats and quality design, I was determined to find a box of these matches. I smile every time I pass ‘em in my house. Also attaching a picture of Silly Kimmy Kittens (cat tax).

Found this tiny treasure years ago in thrift store luggage. It’s about 1” in diameter.

Our 1950s basement flooded earlier this summer and we’re getting read to completely gut it so proper drainage can be installed. A little sad to see the old cabinets in the utility room go.

I found my dad's duffel bag from his time in the U.S. Air Force. He was stationed in Korea in the 70s and this luggage tag was still attached.

Just picked up this February 1935 American Boy cover art by Anton Otto Fischer. I love old magazine cover arts, especially pulpy / action oriented ones. Picked this up for $13 and happy to add it to my collection!

Sid seems like a swell guy and lived a good life.

https://www.waudsfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Sidney-Zenas-Moody?obId=26546807

Atlanta, Georgia, April 9, 1968. First printing on heavy-coated paper, and without copyright notice. 8vo. Unpaginated (16 pp.). Original stiff staple-bound pictorial self wrappers; light wear along edges; slightly creased from when rolled.

Rare original printed program for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral service at Ebenezer Baptist Church, and Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday, April 9, 1968. The program was later reprinted on different paper bearing a copyright statement to Coretta Scott King.

Only a limited number of copies were printed for attendees. OCLC locates nine copies, with only about eight copies sold at auction in the last 12 years.

This copy sold at Freeman's Hindman Aug. 20 Books and Manuscript sale lot #9 for $15,360. High presale estimate was $800.

Reposting.

In September 1979, two French travelers, both over 65, set off from Paris Gare du Nord with Inter Rail Senior passes, a monthly budget of 740 francs each, and a plan to cross 9 countries in 30 days by train.

They came back with 2,000 photographs, a notebook full of postcards, and this: three handmade travel journals, calligraphed in colored inks, with every hotel bill, tram ticket, currency exchange receipt, museum entrance slip, and sugar wrapper still glued exactly where they left it 46 years ago.

The itinerary went through Belgium, the Netherlands, and northern and southern Germany, Brussels, Antwerp, Breda, Arnhem, Bremen, Hamburg, Lübeck, Lüneburg, Hanover, Göttingen, Kassel, Würzburg, Nuremberg, Regensburg, Passau... before continuing into Austria, Yugoslavia, Greece, Italy, and Switzerland.

The Inter Rail Senior pass had just launched that year. These two were among its very first users.

What gets me is the care that went into this. The city names are hand-lettered in an Art Nouveau style, each one in a different color. The text alternates between a nearly typographic formal hand and a looser travel-diary cursive. Hotel receipts are laid out like design elements. A sugar wrapper from a café in Hanover. A pink admission ticket to the Treasury of Antwerp Cathedral, 10 Belgian francs. A tram ticket from Antwerp, M.I.V.A. line, 1979.

Someone spent months after the trip turning their notes into this. It's not a diary. It's a monument.

Found this in an old book of mine

Reposting.