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Vinyl Laughter

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Reality … What a Concept, 1979 At the age of 27, Robin Williams was already considered comedy’s darling. He had just finished season 1 of Mork & Mindy and was on the cover of TIME magazine.
by Maxine Carter-Lome Some of the earliest albums recorded for commercial distribution were comedy albums. Various collections of humorous short stories recited by vaudeville comedian Cal Stewart were released by ...
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Writing With Images: The Creation of THE NEW YORKER Humor

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The first cover by Rea Irvin (Feb. 21, 1925) establishing the personification of the New Yorker as Eustas Tilly
by Judy Gonyeau with heavy reference from Defining New Yorker Humor by Judith Yaross Lee Launched in 1925, The New Yorker is a mostly-weekly magazine dispersing information through a myriad ...
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Wowie Kazowee! It’s BOZO the CLOWN!

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BOZO the CLOWN!
by Maxine Carter-Lome In 1946, Capitol Records writer/producer Alan Livingston introduced Bozo the Clown to the world via a children’s record entitled Bozo at the Circus – a first-of-its-kind record ...
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Long Live The MAD-ness

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The cover to MAD No. 50 (October 1959), illustrated by Kelly Freas. While Mingo could produce endless identical versions of the Alfred E. Neuman face, Freas’s Alfreds were more impish and had much more expression.
by Grant Geissman By the spring of 1952, artist/writer/editor Harvey Kurtzman was exhausted from researching, writing, laying out, drawing for, and editing the world’s first true-to-life war comics, Two-Fisted Tales ...
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Antimacassars: Then and Now

Antimacassars, Erica Lome, Features, Victorian Age
Single example from one of two pairs of lace chair arm covers. Rectangular with lightly scalloped side and back edges and larger scalloped front edge. Inner rectangle with foliate decoration. Original to Castle Tucker (Wiscasset, ME). photo: Historic New England
Erica Lome, Ph.D. "Necessity is the mother of invention.” This adage certainly applied to many of the domestic objects produced in the nineteenth century that served as creative solutions to ...
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Wallace Nutting: Come Into The Parlor

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At Nuttinghame, Comfort and a Cat
by Mike Ivankovich The parlor was traditionally a gathering room where family members and friends would meet, eat, socialize, and relax. Smaller and less affluent homes had the Kitchen, Dining ...
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Charmed, I’m Sure: Big Dreams, Love, and Luck Come in Small Packages

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This gold charm bracelet of Elizabeth Taylor’s charts the milestones of her extraordinary life and sold at Christie’s for $326,500 in 2011
by Judy Gonyeau, managing editor Evidence has been brought to light that charms were perhaps first formed as far back as 75,000 years ago according to the discovery in Africa ...
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Eisenberg Originals

Agnini & Singer in Chicago, Berns-Friedman, costume jewelry, Eisenberg & Sons, Eisenberg belts, Eisenberg cosmetics, Eisenberg Ice, Eisenberg Jewelry Inc., Eisenberg Originals The Golden Years of Fashion Jewelry and Fragrance 1920s-1950s, enamel detailing, Fallon & Kappel, Features, jewelry line, Jonas Eisenberg, Julius Eisenberg, Laura Sutton, Of Times Gone By, rhinestone dangles, rhinestone dress accents, Ruby Lane, Ruth Kamke, Sam Eisenberg
Eisenberg Originals gold-plated Sinbad figural fur clip with turbaned head with pave and enamel detailing and multi-colored teardrop framed rhinestone dangles, circa 1940. Sold for $1,250
by Ken Hall Eisenberg Originals are the most beautiful and brilliant pieces of costume jewelry no one’s ever heard of. The massive collection of someone who literally wrote the book ...
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Cameos – Wearable Sculpture in Relief

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Cameos come in all sizes, forms, materials, subjects, and colors. This is an example of a carnelian shell cameo brooch
by Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher Cameos are one of the most widely recognized types of jewelry. Many of us may even own a piece, most probably handed down from a family ...
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O Christmas Tree: And the Inspired Collectible Christmas Tree Pins

Addis Brush Company artificial trees, Albert Sadacca, Alexis Bittar’s jeweled Lucite trees, Art, artificial trees introduced in 1950, Christmas, Christmas Tree, Christmas tree pins, Christmas tree tradition, costume jewelry, Edward Johnson, Edward Johnson a Thomas Edison employee, Eisenberg, Features, fine jewelry pins, Gale & Friends, Gerry’s Creations, Hattie Carnegie, Hobé, holiday decorating, Hollycraft, J.J. (Jonette Jewelry), Kenneth J. Lane, Kirks Folly, Lisner, Liz Claiborne, Lunch at the Ritz, Martin Luther, mid-twentieth century, Miriam Haskell, Monet, Mylu., NOMA Electric Company, Pins, Prince Albert, Queen Victoria, rhinestones, safety Christmas light, Silver Pine Brush Tree, silvery aluminum tree with pom-pom branches, Swarovski, Tancer-II, tree with electric bulbs in 1882, twinkling lights, Weiss
Art tree with sweeping branches, $20-30
Story & Photos by Donald-Brian Johnson What do you do on the day after Thanksgiving? Some folks start baking Christmas cookies (or eating them). Others begin unraveling myriad strings of ...
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Horns of Plenty: Decorated Military Powder Horns in Colonial America

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William Williams Jr. Powder Horn attributed to the carver John Bush. Historic Deerfield, 2005.20.6
by Erica Lome, Ph.D. On a cool April morning in 1775, Amos Barrett readied his musket and prepared for combat. Earlier that day, 23-year-old Barrett had awoken to the news ...
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Two Collectors, One Passion: Pawprints on Paper

Antique Advertising Association of America, Black Cat cafês, Black Cat Cigarettes, Black Cat detective book series, Black Cat Dominoes, Black Cat Fireworks, Black Cat Fortune Telling game, Black Cat Hosiery, Black Cat Safety Matches, Black Cat Stove and Shoe Polishes, Black Cat Whiskey, Cat Tongues cookies, cat-themed postcards, Cat’s Paw rubber heels, Catchy, Catlin’s, cats, cats in advertising, celebrating Halloween with black cat imagery, Chat Noir Coffee, Clark’s, Corbett, Corticelli, Ephemera advertising, Features, Goodrich rubber boots, Kilkenny Cats game, Kitty Kat Shoes, Langues de Chat, Louis Wain, McLoughlin Brothers’ game Black Cat, Mr. Thomas cigars, Old Tom Gin, Robber Kittens game, Tabby, The Black Cat magazine, The Game of Black Cat, the late 1800s, Two Toms cigars, Willimantic
The Game of Black Cat
By Margaret Carpenter and Alice Muncaster Is it possible for cats to spark a friendship between two people miles (and states) apart? Absolutely! Thanks to the Antique Advertising Association of ...
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