I just finished reading a delightful book, The Great Beanie Baby Bubble by Zac Bissonnette.
Along the way I made note of the following on page 89 :" My downfall was the Checklists"one early collector told me " Once you have a checklist, you don't look at what you have .You look at what you don't have"
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From my own experience I know this to be true.With each checklist I work on I get obsessed with getting the items I don't have. They are sometimes. not even to my liking .
Andrew Kay Womrath (1869-1939) lived and worked in America and England and France.. This makes the preparation of a check list more complicated..
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Albert Fisk
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Laura Van-Nest Talmage
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Along the way I made note of the following on page 89 :" My downfall was the Checklists"one early collector told me " Once you have a checklist, you don't look at what you have .You look at what you don't have"
Andrew Kay Womrath (1869-1939) lived and worked in America and England and France.. This makes the preparation of a check list more complicated..
Biographical Information Andrew Kay Womrath
From Wickipedia
"Andrew Kay Womrath (1869–1939) was an American artist who became well known in France, although he was not widely recognized in the United States.
Andrew Kay Womrath was born in Philadelphia in 1869. He moved to London to study, and then went to Paris, working in both cities for several years. He studied under Urushibara Mokuchu, who bought many of his works. He often worked in advertising. Womrath's work includes drawings, woodblocks and watercolors. His only known poster is an advertisement for a January 1897 exhibition of the Salon des Cent in Paris. It depicts a woman (Gertrude A. Kay ?) leafing through prints beside a somewhat Bohemian-looking man who is admiring a vase.] In April 1896 a number of his drawings and book plates were exhibited in the Champs de Mars Salon. A reviewer in 1902 placed Andrew Kay Womrath in what he called the "Pictorial" group. Some of his colored woodcuts are now held in the British Museum."
Checklist Of Bookplates by Andrew Kay Womrath
(An ongoing Work in Progress)
Therese Beyer
Mary Louise Blodget
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Edith Brown
Howard Carroll
Marie Clausen
Charles Lumas Dana (engraved by E.D. French)
The image below is from the Brewer Collection, University of Delaware.
Miss Dickinson
E.F.Draper Advertising Co.
Albert Fisk
Katherine Green
Hon. Claude Hay
Helen
Marion Lawrence
Claire MacDonald (from the Brewer Collection, University of Delaware, )
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Claire MacDonald (from the Brewer Collection, University of Delaware, )
George Gidley Robinson*
Dr. Leonard N. Robinson
Martha Thompson
Violet Tweedale
Hon.Arthur Walsh
Lady Clementine Walsh
Eva Cecela Wemyss
GeorgineWölber
Arthur Romaine Womrath
A.K. Womrath
Fred Yuengling
* Fellow Collector Anthony Pincott referred me to this issue of The Bookplate Journal which as it turns out is also a good reference for future checklists..Thank you Anthony.
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