A Venture by Ephemerists - Diane DeBlois and Robert Dalton Harris
Boston 2026 WORLD EXPO, Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, May 23-30
A Venture by Ephemerists - Diane DeBlois and Robert Dalton Harris
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BROADSIDE, TEXTILE: Report of the Committee of the Senate of the United States, With which the Senate concurred, January 20, 1829. Messrs. Johnson, of Kentucky, Ellis, Tyler, Johnson of Louisiana, and Silbee, the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to which had been referred various petitions remonstrating against the Transportation and Delivery of the Mails on the SABBATH, Report: “Wm. Wooddy, printer, No. 2, S. Calvert-st. Balt.” [text in 3 columns with Troy coach, on silk, 16 x 20.5 inches]
BROADSIDE, TEXTILE: Johnson’s Report on Sunday Mails. In Congress, March 4, 1830. “Henry Bowen’s Print, Washington-Street, nearly opposite the Old South …. Sold by J[ared]. Austin, [15] Marshall-Street, Boston.” [text in 5 columns with Troy coach, on silk, 20 inches square]
BROADSIDE, TEXTILE: Johnson’s Report on Sunday Mails. In Congress, March 4, 1830, The Hon. Richard M. Johnson, Chairman of the Committee of the House of Representatives, to whom had been committed the Petitions for stopping the Sunday Mails, with the Remonstrances against the same, made the following Report. Published by Henry Bowen, No. 4, Province House Row, Washington-Street, nearly opposite the Old South, Boston. [text in five columns, on muslin, 18 inches square]
November 2, 1817, 12-year old Marilla Hall of Greenville, New York wrote a letter to her friend Polly Hickock in the same town, inviting her to visit. She used red ink, and decorated the address leaf as if it were embroidered around its edges, drawing simulations of wax seals (while using a real one) and drawing a postal marking of 12 1/2 (while indicating “twelve centes” in the address), which would have carried to New York City and a likely model for Marilla’s concoction.
From our “Collection of Collections” we offer albums of stamps and philatelic-adjacent collections. These items illustrate the development of published stamp albums, and the early interest in saving just the postmark on mail as being more interesting than the often repetitive stamps. The popularity of mounting small images in albums, both specially published and handmade, extended to monograms and emblems. To feed these taxonomic hobbies, dealers in stamps and publishers of emblem sheets appear, and correspondents respond to gift requests. Contact us for more information on any of these items.
Chromolithographed trompe l’oeil cover to 1888 trade catalog for Fuller & Warren Co., Clinton Stove Works, Troy NY., printed by Charles Van Benthuysen & Sons., Albany NY.
Encompassing the period 1800 to 2021. These collections include samplings of over 75 types of ephemera, arranged in thematic groupings. Part of a larger collection formed by a retired physicist, fascinated with change associated with the Copernican/Cartesian/Newtonian revolution in scientific thinking.
25 trade cards
$750.
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The paper based on this talk was published in The Congress Book 2023, pages 7 to 30.