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Postcards of the Folger:
Midsommer, Romeo and Ivliet, Merchant of VeniceThey Don’t Know How to Spell, No Nude!
On Aug. 2, 1929 the Folgers made known the plays and the scenes from Shakespeare’s plays they had selected for the bas-reliefs.
Travel to England by Henry and Emily Folger, 1903 – 1923
Henry Folger was unlike his executive colleagues at the Standard Oil Company in New York who vacationed in Florida and California or cruised the Mediterranean. He took his wife and collecting...
Capt. Peter Strickland 1837–1921
Philatelic Covers of the 1st U.S. Consul to Senegal
To Mark the Centennial
For a quarter of a century––from 1880 to 1905––shipmaster Peter Strickland lived on Gorée Island in Senegal while toiling in the merchant marine.
From Bangs to Maggs: Folger Fourth Folios
In 1889, 10 years after he graduated from Amherst College and 84 years before I did, Henry Folger walked “with fear and trepidation” into the foremost book auction house in America, Bangs and Co. on...
Picture Postcards of France II
I ended Picture Postcards of France I by promising the next deltiological stop in France would be Brittany. I lied. La Bretagne will have to wait. Because January 2021 will be one of the most devastating and trying months in our nation’s history, I thought some humor might help a wee bit.
Nitty-Gritty of Postcard Collecting, Part III
Read PART I | Read PART IIFeatures of Old Postcards Size & color Postcards very rarely carry a date printed on the cards. In this, they are unlike most postage stamps, and are...
Nitty-Gritty of Postcard Collecting, Part II
A postcard is generally “a 3- by 5-inch piece of thin paperboard with a picture on its face.” What do you do with your postcards? They come in different sizes and colors and types. The history of postcard production has been divided into different eras.
Nitty-Gritty of Postcard Collecting, Part I
Collecting in general Either you are a collector or you are not. It is one way to divide up the world. It is clearly a leisure activity, unless you are in the business. It is a hobby, a pastime, a...
Queen Elizabeth’s Corsets
In October 1931, armored trucks left Brooklyn––where Shakespeare collectors Henry and Emily Folger had lived––for a night ride to Washington DC. Security guards packed Colt .45 pistols, riot guns,...
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