This is a marriage of two magazines -- Arts & Decoration and The Spur. The Spur was quite large (I have some issues listed here), but the combined magazine is slimmer and smaller at 10" x 12-1/2" with 50 pages. Subjects include the police dog, horses and equestrian sport in the Carolinas, golf in the Bahamas, valley ranching in Wyoming, American crafts, rugs and mirrored walls. View More...
Very nice clean booklet which is surprisingly hard to find. It's in nice clean condition (we bought it from a collector of farm related paper)and has 40 pages. It measures 6"x9" and is illustrated with charts and black and white photographs. It cover numerous related topics including the cost of keeping a bull, processing feeds, comparison of corn varieties for silage, Manamar for growing heifers, and studies of milk. View More...
Crisp, clean booklet which is part of a series published by the Building Department of Granite City Steel, Division of National Steel Corporation. This booklet is #6 of the Farmstead Planning Manuals. It was designed with holes for insertion in a binder, all of which are in excellent condition. Booklet is illustrated with color photographs and also shows educational drawings as well as information for planning. Booklet measures 8-1/2" x 11" and has 16 pristine pages. View More...
This is a horse lover's information/advertising book issued by S.C. and M.D. Hartman, importers and breeders of Percheron Draft and German Coaching horses for their Columbus, Ohio farm. The Hartmans also operated a poultry department, but the only reference to that here is a full page color ad and a few pictures of outbuildings and a couple pages of info. The spotlight is definitely on the horses. Contents include, among other topics, these: the Barb, or the horse of the Sahara; an anatomical study of the horse; a study of the mouth of a horse; description and illustrations of Hartman Farm; or... View More...
Cute little book written in the French language for reading aloud to little people, or for learning to read French. It's small, measuring 5-1/2"x5" and has 10 full color pages with cute art and a short text. Booklet is clean and tightly bound with just a small bit of edge wear and former bookseller's stock number on a sticker at front. It's an old one though, so I did not have the courage to try to remove it.Rather hard to find. View More...
This is an unused linen postcard with a border which depicts a day at the greyhound races in Florida There's no writing and the paper is crisp and clean The only faults are a light toning to the divided back and tiny crease to upper right corner. Note the people watching from their cars! Card will arrive in a brand new plastic sleeve. View More...
This photo depicts a lovely afternoon on the porch. The young girl, wearing a newsie hat, is clearly loved by the dog standing at the feet of the older woman who might be the girl's mother. The woman is holding a book from which she is likely to be reading to her daughter. I wish we knew where they lived, but I have nothing to go on except that I bought this in Ohio. The photo, including the mat, measures 5"x 6 ". the photo itself measures 4-3/4" x 3-3/4". Sadly there's no writing on the back. View More...
This is without question the most ephemeral postcard ever. The body of the flamingo is covered with a variety of actual feathers in an array of colors. The card is very nice overall, but does show a few tiny soil marks at the area of the neck just next to the feathers. I don't dare try to do anything about it for fear of damage.Tthe only other fault is a small flat crease to left lower corner. Card has a one cent postage stamp, but it was never marked. There's no indication of date, but I do know one thing that helps. The recipient is Bertha Randall -- I had a lot of cards sent to her and almo... View More...
I've never seen this card before and can't find a comparable, but it's certainly attractive if you love horses. A little research dates this horse to 1918 and the card shows the sire as Peter the Great and the dam as Nell Worthy L. Beneath the names it says, In the Stud Forkland, Robert S. Strader Lexington, Kentucky. The card is criso and clean, has not been used and will arrive in a brans new plastic sleeve. View More...
This is an unusual card from Portugal. A wealthy couple sits comfortably in wicker seats in a cart that looks as though it glides on runners like a sleigh. But why? No snow! Also, where does the driver sit? And which man IS the driver? Perhaps they just walk alongside the cart -- it's guaranteed to be in the slow lane! Overall, the card is charming, perhaps because of its oddities. It has not been used and will arrive in a plastic sleeve. View More...
Crisp, beautiful card with sharp corners and no writing on divided back. Not postmarked. The back of the card offers this information: "Feeding time in the world's only oceanarium! Some of the hundreds of visitors are shown gathered on the top deck to watch the porpoises leap high out of the water to take food from the hand of the feeding attendant. Porpoises, being air-breathing mammals consequently have to come to the surface to breathe and some times in their eagerness to be fed will leap as high as 8 to 9 feet clear of the water. Porpoises have been unofficially clocked at speeds up to 40 ... View More...
Here we have a dozen postcards photographed in black and white showing wild animals which were preserved in Akeley African Hall of the American Museum of Natural History.The Akeley was named for Carl Akeley, naturalist, photographer, sculptor, and taxidermist. It was he who envisioned the hall in 1909 and collected many of the specimens for it. There are extensive descriptions on the back of each card. Subjects include an East African Plains Group, Gerenuk, White-Mantled Colobus, Giraffe and Grant Gazelle,Chimpanzee, Greater Koodoo, Mountain Gorilla, Klipspringer, African Elephant, African Li... View More...
At first glance this appears to be a giant pig -- which it is. But it's not just any old pig. This pig belonged to O.C. Barber, an entrepreneur extraordinaire, who succeeded with many businesses before launching this early effort at agribusiness. The card is postmarked Barberton, Ohio July 27, 1911 and sent to Mr. Sherman Lee of Seville, Ohio. The message reads, "This is one of O.C. Barber's thoroughbred pigs. He is a big one, isn't he? Tom Bairstow." Very clean and nice and easy to read. Will arrive in plastic sleeve. View More...
This is one of two issues from 2001 at which time the magazine was celebrating its 25th anniversary. This one is the spring issue and the other the summer, which at this writing is on here too. The magazine is large at 10-1/4" x 13-3/4" and has 128 pages. The magazine offers much info on horses, as that's its focus, but there are other topics too -- crops including purslane, peas, grapes and garlic; increasing soil with organic matter; and the politics of tillage. As for horses, there's articles about horse treadmill, horse harness, recognizing lameness in horses, water requirements of horses,... View More...
This is a top drawer booklet spotlighting the amenities offered by Gainesway Farm -- a few of which are boarding and stud service. The booklet is in full color on quality glossy paper and the slipcase has a large cut-out in which you see the horse's eye when inserted. The booklet offers a double spread for each of a dozen of the finest horses -- Broad Brush, Cozzene, K One King, Luhuk, Mt. Livermore. Officer, Orientate, Sir Cat, Smoke Glacken, Subordination, Sunday Break, and Tapit. Booklet measures 9-1/4" x 11-1/2" and has 36 gorgeous pages. View More...
This is a rather localized item (Cleveland, Ohio area), but of interest to people who show horses, or have family members who did at one time. It's all marked up inside -- which is a GOOD thing in this instance -- as it provides the ranking of the winners in each race. It also includes a horse show prize list as a separate tri-fold brochure .Both items are very clean and the graphic on the cover of the main program is wonderful.Program measures 6-1/4"x9-1/4" and has 40 pages. View More...
Amazing! Imagine a booklet with yapped edges, none of which are torn or falling off! This is a very nicely kept souvenir. There's a beautiful color picture of the building at frontis as it was in 1946. Illustrations continue throughout the text in black and white. Text is lengthy and covers the origin of the Smithsonian, how it's the Nation's treasure chest, Native, Americans, life and the sun, live animals, scientific exploration, art, the Smithsonian in war time and more. Booklet measures 7-1/4" x 10-1/4" with 64 clean pages, tightly bound. The spine strip shows no creasing either. Very nic... View More...
I love it when there's extra ephemera inside the main item. Here we have this unique catalog, plus an envelope which opens to be an order sheet and a price list. Everything is clean and bright and there are no names or writing. The catalog's animal theme is created in crystal. There were 58 pieces altogether, 32 of which are photographed and described in here. The catalog measures 5-3/4" x 7-1/4" and has 39 pages View More...
The bright color of this ad and its matching envelope caught my attention immediately, but after reading it it occurred to me that I have never had anything produced by Zenner-Raymond until now. The ad is complete as you see it, printed only on the front, and fits inside the envelope which measures 3-1/2"x6". Love the bold exterior message: Zenoleum Sheep Dip Is Not Poisonous." The postmark reads Detroit April 28, 1898 -- the ad was created from an 1897 study conducted by the State Agricultural College at Fort Collins, Colorado. Nice addition to an agriculture collection [ AG. / NAT. HIST.] View More...
Fun little stocking stuffer book which measures 5-1/4" in diameter. It's all about 1983 filled with facts of what the world was doing back then. But it's especially interesting to compare the then and now. The chapters are these: Pay Day; Staying in Touch, It's A Bad, Bad World; Accidents Will Happen; The Global Garbage Pile; Friend Or Foe; and A Day in the World 2000. The art is great and plentiful -- black and white, but very good graphics. 126 round pages. View More...
