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Best Throwback Ever

For #ThrowbackThursday here are three cards from the "Operation" board game. Found in "Richard Scarry's Little Counting Book" published by Random House, 1998.

I first posted this back in 2013.  I didn't know then how many times I would read that to my daughter.


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Portrait

Tintype photograph in sleeve.

Found in "Guide to Social Happiness" by Mrs. Ellis. Published by Edward Walker, 1847.

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What A Spectacle

Somewhere back in time, the former owner of these glasses is still looking for them. It looks like they have been in there so long, they have cracked the binding.
 Found in "The Story of a Fight" by Hugh Lloyd. Published by McLoughlin Brothers, 1907.

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Lucky, Part 104

Dried and pressed four leaf clover.

Found in "The Christians' Inheritance" by Samuel Clarke. Published by Evert Duyckinck, 1823.


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Giveaway winner

This week's winner was Anita Kirkham Jann, who entered on Facebook.

Thanks to all who entered, see you on Monday.

Friday Giveaway: Ten Matched Classics - contest closed

Contest now closed, I will announce the winner in a moment.

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Friday Giveaway: Ten Matched Classics

 I'm giving away these ten matched classics this week. To enter, just leave a comment below.

You can also enter on Facebook , Twitter , Instagram or via email .

I will gather up all the entries and select a winner at random tomorrow morning at 10:00 AM Eastern.

Good luck!

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Back In Time

For this week's #ThrowbackThursday, here's a postcard I posted here on the site back in June of 2014 :

Postcard from Tokyo, 1915:

Dear Friend,

I beg to thank you very much for your pretty card. I sent you a Japan news papers and which I beg of you to accept from. I will send you some Japan fairy tales if you send me a few United States fairy tales. I hope too that you will soon write to me.

Your loving friend

Found in "In The World's Attic" by Henrietta Sands Merrick. Published by G.P. Putnam, 1931.


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Betty Grable, We Love You

 Small card from the Peerless Vending and Weighing Machine. This card features Betty Grable on one side, and the user's weight and fortune on the other (139 pounds as of July 28, unknown year, and "YOU believe in fair play and in giving the other person an equal chance")

If you've never seen these vintage fortune and weight telling machines, they look like this:


 Found in "The Phantom Treasure" by Harriet Pyne Grove. Published by Saalfield, 1928.

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Alice In Christmasland

Christmas card.

Found in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll. Published by Henry Altemus, copyright page missing, circa 1900.

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