This Old Paper

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And here is the Old Paper Art mail art with the postmark: Last Chance Station Helena MT 59624 Dec 31 2009.

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What would you get if you crossed this 1938 Baby Ruth ad from Modern Romance magazine with this 1934 Baby Ruth receipt via Forgotten Bookmarks? In the skilled hands of Dave Dube -  MrCachet himself – of Old Paper Art, most definitely a piece of art suitable for framing!
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Taking a behind-the-scenes look at Forgotten Bookmarks, I found Popek’s Used and Rare Book Store – the very source of those ever-intriguing old ephemera bits that we look forward to daily. Seeing the photo of smiling Michael Popek among the towering shelves of books in the accompanying Press and Sun-Bulletin article increases my happiness-factor, making [...]

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On the morning of March 26, I discovered the intriguing website Forgotten Bookmarks: Found Items Left in Old Books featured on LISNews: Librarian Information and Science News. In a same day co-incidence, I found a forgotten bookmark of my own in a book I purchased at a Friends of the Library [...]

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