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The Bookplates of Pauline Srone
Last week's blog about Leonard Baskin is expanding as I had hoped .Readers sent in additional scans and more are coming. This week I have begun a checklist for Pauline Stone. I am aided greatly in...
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This Week in Bookplates 3/2/2014
Fellow Collector David Wilton has a new wood engraved bookplate by Andy English.www.andyenglish.comIt is based on a William Kent mirror design.I purchased this Mayan bookplate last week because it...
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This Week in Bookplates 3/9/2014
Holly Hurd-Forsyth ,The Collections Manager and Registrar at The Maine Historical Society sent the following information, extracted from The Maine Historical Society...
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Why Do I Collect ?
Many years ago someone asked me why I collected . The question caught me off guard becausethe person asking did not understand why anyone would collect anything. There are no simple answers to such...
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This Week in Bookplates 3/23/2014
Earlier in the week I spotted a collection of 160 bookplates on Ebay and asked the seller this question:Q: What do the corners of the two presidential bookplates look like when removed from the corner...
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Some Interesting Bookplates
Here is a link to a blog posting by Karl Marxhausen.http://www.underfowler.blogspot.com/It is loaded with interesting information about these bookplates and their owner'sThis image shown above came...
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The Shadow Show in New York City , April 6th,2014
I attended a book show in New York City yesterday and was pleased to find two booksellers who had a few items which I purchased..If logic was my emotional compass I would make a computerized inventory...
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This Week In Bookplates April 13th, 2014
Mystery Bookplate Artist M.RDoes anyone out there recognize the artist M.R. ?Can anyone out there translate the hieroglyphics ?4/14/2014 A.K.Eyma was kind enough to submit the following:The first plate...
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A Note from Andrew Peake
The bookplates relating to Crabites brought back memories of my owntime in Iraq and Baghdad. I was in Baghdad in August through toDecember, 1990, when the country's leader at the time, Saddam...
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The Bookplates of Achmed Abdullah and Jean Wick
I have a copy of Sign Posts by Faith Baldwin , inscribed "To Achmed A very important "signpost" on the paths of friendship- Faith- 24" .It has the recipient's bookplate as well as another bookplate...
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Philadelphia Flea Market
I just got back from a flea market . We are fortunate in that there are always several flea markets to choose from during the spring and summer months.Here is a schedule in case you plan to visit...
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Some Interesting Bookplates
Daniel Dulany the Younger (June 28, 1722 – March 17, 1797) was a Maryland Loyalist politician, Mayor of Annapolis, and an influential American lawyer in the period immediately before the American...
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Clara Tice,The Quill, Howard Greer and Edith Head
Yesterday's flea market excursion provided me with a few ephemeral items one of which intersects with my bookplate collection.I obtained a copy of The Quill a monthly magazine devoted to Greenwich...
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An Article by Mark Schumacher about Amy Sacker
I am always pleased to receive bookplate articles for inclusion in the blog. In this case I am doubly pleasedbecause Mark Schumacher has done extensive research about Amy M. Sacker over a long period...
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Some Recent Bookplate Purchases, Exchanges and Discoveries
Stanley Kauffmann (1916 -2013)"Mr. Kauffmann started with The New Republic in 1958 and contributed film criticism to that magazine for the next fifty-five years. He had one brief break in his New...
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The XXXV International Congress of Ex Librist Catalonia-Submitted by Andrew...
Turkish delegation in the foreground Frank-Ivo van Damme (Belgium)The 35th Congress got off to a good start in the seaside resort of La Pineda, Vila-Seca which is located a few kilometres from...
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Bookplates for Sale ,Dugald Stewart Walker, Rockwell Kent/John Sloan
Original artwork by Dugald Stewart Walker is not often offered for sale so I am pleased to mention that Nicholas Cooke of Black Swan Books currently is selling an unfinished pen and ink drawing by him....
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Building a Bookplate Collection at a Congress by James P. Keenan,
Building a Bookplate Collection at a Congress by James P. Keenan, Director of the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers Bookplates are personal marks of book ownership. A reflection...
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Abraham Lincoln-My Shining Star by Robert Weinberg
This week I am pleased to publish a guest article submitted by fellow collector Robert Weinberg(A.K.A Bookplate...
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Henry Grandin's Bookplate
Do any of you recognize the owner's name or the artist AM ?I suspect it is a California plate. It was purchased in San Francisco ( Paul Elder Bookseller label)The book it was in was about etching and...
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