Tuesday Treasures - July 9, 2024

A real mixed lot of treasures today.

For 25¢ at St. Vincent de Paul I found this vintage lithograph.  It's a bit of an enigma.  The original painting is by Henry Alkin, with the title on the bottom of prints, "Going to the Meet."  However, this print is from a painting signed Reid.  I will assume Reid painted his own version for the publisher, Arthur A. Kaplan Co. Inc. (N. Y.).  I haven't found another, however there are lots of lithographs available from the 1970s and 1980s.  It has the look of older though, perhaps late '60s. This is mounted on cardboard, and the frame had broken glass, so I asked the cashier to just throw it out.  I only wanted what was in it!

This vintage photo album, unused, with black paper, is from the Bins.

Imagine, 49¢ new! 

That's not the first unused album I found in the Bins.  Earlier this year I found this scrapbook.  A few of these albums are for sale online, filled with dated ephemera, which show it to be an antique.

A modern scrapbook I'll use for postcards. I just got my order of acid and PVC free postcard pages to use instead of what's in it.  Each page holds three, one horizonal, two vertical, so three each page if need to leave backs visible, or six if nothing of interest written on them.  Another Bins find.  As books these were 25¢ each.

Speaking of postcards...

I've received two more from Postcrossing participants.

Japan

It's from the Japanese Modern Literature Museum.

I had a problem with translating, something to do with water, a bridge, and a cucumber.  The first lines translate to "A lot of cucumber, good luck."  I could make up a story to go with my vision of the illustration.  Once there was a man crossing a bridge.  He spied a large cucumber floating by (or perhaps he dropped the cucumber he was carrying).  He loved cucumbers.  So much so his wife had kicked him out of the house for eating all the cucumbers she'd been growing to turn into pickles.  Seeing the pickle floating there (or falling), he dove into the river after it.   The translation is no doubt nothing like that, and Google includes something about a "bald head."   So, the bald-headed man loves cucumbers.    You know, I could send a message to the sender and ask!  This is the orientation the sender used on her list of sent cards.

It came with some pretty stamps.

Expo 1975

Okinawa International Marine Memorial 

Bingata textile pattern

1982 Letter Writing Day

The fairy is getting a letter delivered by bird.

Where do these old stamps come from?  Do postcard and stamp collectors save them up for decades?  

Serbia

Isn't this cute?  The sender is an illustrator, and I suspect prints her own art for postcards.  Her Instagram is full of fabulous art.  

The stamps had cherries, chicory flowers, and one (2013) featuring a vintage postal truck . 

Postcrossing is free to use, you just pay for postcards and postage.  Give it a try!