This Old Paper

I dreamed a dream in which I presented Katie Grace with a real, live bear. A dream so intense that I woke up in the night vowing to remember it. A dream so intense that upon awakening I was filled to overflowing with positive energy. Browsing The Hartville Marketplace that morning I [...]

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Happy National Library Week April 11-17, 2010!
A perfect week to be sharing this Congressional Library postcard, postmarked 1908, purchased at the Hartville Marketplace. Beautiful full-moon nighttime view of the building – oh, or is it?

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I found this 1909 postcard at the Hartville Marketplace last Saturday.  It is actually an advertisement for tailoring services, so it is actually a perfect postcard to welcome our own Daniel’s other site to our Links page – Heliopsis!

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This Sheaffer pen ad is featured on the back of a December 1955 Coronet magazine acquired at the Hartville Marketplace as a freebie from a vendor affectionately known as “Mr. Estate Sale”.

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Extending a warm This Old Paper welcome to Leo of Postcardiness, the newest site to be added to our Links page.  Leo inaugurated Postcardiness last month, just in time to participate in the Festival of Postcards 5th Edition: Quadrupeds.
Knowing that Leo is fond of postcards and tends to seek out [...]

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