This small tin box, with a thin cherry wood top, was an etsy purchase from a very talented seller named Michelle from Fort Collins, Colorado. I love the box itself, but the "extra surprise" part was that she laser etched a ruler inside the lid of the cardboard box. Etsy sellers are the best.
Purchase (etsy) -- Michelle Mach ( michellemach ), Fort Collins, CO -- received 17 November 2021
I amuse myself.
This was a custom order from a very nice etsy seller named Melinda, of SprinkleGlitterCo, who put together this special package for me. A new treasure for my collection!
Purchase (etsy) -- Melinda of SprinkleGlitterCo, Long Beach, CA -- received 12 November 2021
November 14 is World Diabetes Day!
Today is the first day of a very important month: National Diabetes Awareness Month. Read up, my friends! It's a pain, but it's manageable.
Diabetes Awareness image: Purchase (etsy) -- Trisha from TriyaDigitalDesigns -- received 28 October 2021
Ruler template: Purchase (etsy) - Jessica Laurie, JLaurieStudio, Henderson, Nevada
Blotter book, calendar, advertisement, and ruler: I love these multi-purpose items.
This one, an ebay purchase, and, as it turns out, a duplicate, arrived on Saturday. It's in great shape for a paper item almost 80 years old.
According to Wikipedia, Air Express started services in 1927 as a division of the Railway Express Agency, a a national package delivery service that operated in the United States from 1918 to 1975.
Purchase (ebay) -- "cozmiccomics" = Brian Schur, Nebraska City, NE -- received 29 October 2021
I've probably said this before, but in our house, EVERY day is National Cat Day, not just October 29.
Here are some samples of cat-themed rulers that I've made myself.
Ruler templates: Purchase (etsy) - Jessica Laurie, JLaurieStudio, Henderson, Nevada
Why does the word "haberdashery" sound so funny to modern Americans? Not sure, but it always makes me smile. Wikipedia says this about the word origin: In British English, a haberdasher is a business or person who sells small articles for sewing, dressmaking and knitting, such as buttons, ribbons, and zips; in the United States, the term refers instead to a retailer who sells men's clothing, including suits, shirts, and neckties.
This small ruler/blotter--un-used as a blotter but who know if it was ever used as a ruler?--was a purchase on Sunday from Cathy & Don Mastrovito of Cheshire Cat Antiques, of Clinton, MA, who had a display at the Boxboro Paper Town fair.
Purchase -- Cheshire Cat Antiques, Clinton, MA, at the Boxboro Paper Town fair -- received 24 October 2021
Advertising rulers seldom have enough clues to assign a specific year of manufacture; this new acquisition is an exception. We can assume that it was manufactured in 1920 and used by the Bates-Street Shirt Co. (New York, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Lewiston, ME, etc.) to promote their products. (Bates is a big name in Maine!)
This was a purchase yesterday from Steve Bolick, of Aiglatson (= "Nostalgia," spelled backwards) in Framingham, MA, at the Boxboro Paper Town ephemera fair in Boxborough, MA, our first in-person book or paper fair since early 2020. Steve had an envelope set aside (for me?!) labeled "Rulers." We had a wonderful time.
Purchase -- Steve Bolick, Aiglatson, Framingham, MA -- received 24 October 2021
My usual method of buying postcards and other ephemera from Jose Rodriguez, of The Cartophilians in Cheshire, CT, at the annual fair held by the Ephemera Society of America. After a pandemic break, the ESA fair will resume in March 2022, so in the meantime I've been doing more shopping on ebay, and directly from vendors I know.
These two new trade cards are right on the edge of my collection policy. They are certainly made of paper, and they certainly include an image of a ruler, so now they are a part of the collection.
Purchase - Jose Rodriquez, The Cartophilians, Cheshire, CT - received 21 October 2021
You probably won't be surprised to hear that many "Golden Rule"-themed items also include rulers. This beautiful silk bookmark arrived on Monday from Portland, Oregon, a purchase through ebay from my friends Judith and Glenn Mason, of Cultural Images.
It's a treasure.
Purchase (ebay) - Cultural Images, Portland, OR - received 18 October 2021
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