Blondie, Kool & the Gang, Ambrosia… Rubik’s Cube, Break Dancing, Transformers… The A-Team, 21 Jump Street, Moonlighting… the 80′s! Our walk through time now brings us to the 8o’s. Our exploration of authentic newspaper pricing through time takes us back to Catalog 60. To see a larger image of the catalog’s page, go here: [...]
This week I ventured off the date just a bit, but staying within the current week. I began reading through the October 3, 1810 issue of Thomas’s Massachusetts Spy, or Worcester Gazette when a lengthy front page article entitled “An Island of Savage Cannibals” caught my eye. This was from The Fejee Islands, and after [...]
Forest Gump, Jerry Maguire, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana… the 90′s. Our price-searching through time continues… all the way to “back in the day”… when everything was “aiight. Over the past few weeks we’ve looked at sample prices from 2006 and 2009. Today we explore a half-dozen years earlier – 1993. To see a larger image of [...]
The image shows a portion of a full-page ad found buried in the back of the January 4, 1902 edition of Harper’s Weekly Illustrated. One of the joys of collecting rare and early newspapers is the fun collectors have digging up hidden treasures. A student at Arizona State University recently noticed that one of the [...]
A week ago we looked at authentic newspaper prices from 2006. Today will go a little farther back in time… to 1999. To see a larger image of the catalog’s page, go to: Catalog 120
Enjoy the following, which appeared in an 1857 newspaper:
We often list on our website issues from the island of Guernsey during World War II when it was occupied by the Nazis. As such all news is filtered through the German propaganda machine which offers interesting reading, as the reports are in English because the residents speak English. Although many battles reports border on [...]
And just in time for Halloween, a report from “The Observer” of London, January 1, 1797:
Numerous books have come my way, including several from McFarland which is always appreciated.
Head Shot: The Science Behind the JFK Assassination
Author: G. Paul Chambers
Binding: Hardcover
260 pages (illustrations)
ISBN: 978-1-61614-209-4
Author joins a crowded study area concerning the loan gunner (Lee Harvey Oswald) theory since the Warner Commission report. Book after book has challenged the evidence that [...]
America The Story of Us is a series (12 hours) of docudramas that aired over six days on the History Channel last year. The national educational initiative covers the 400 years of American history. I asked for and received a review copy and spent the last two weeks taking time to view the series and [...]
Is this real or not and was it published by Lincoln?
UPDATE: It is not by Lincoln and in fact the fake business card of Abraham Lincoln was “probably printed by the Democratic committee in 1864.” [Source]