Dull Tool Dim Bulb: Antique

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Folk Art Ventriloquist Figures

Chatterboxes! Pair of Antique Folk Art Vent Figures early 20th century. Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Vintage Wooden Matchbox collection c. 1926

Selected pages from aVintage Wooden Matchbox collection c. 1926 Collection Jim Linderman

Antique Folk Art Carved Wooden Horse and Cart 19th / early 20th c.

Antique Folk Art Carved Wooden Horse and Cart late 19th / early 20th c. 48 inches long, the horse is 21" tall and 24 inches long. Child's riding size! The largest pull toy I've even seen. Original paint. Handmade carriage is made of wood and shaped tin. Found in Michigan
Collection Jim Linderman

Antique Wood Folk Art Toy with Original Paint

Antique Wooden Folk Art Toy with Original Paint. A sliding motion toy depicting cartoon figures from the early 20th century. 12" long. Collection Jim Linderman

Antique Shaking Hands Memory Help Sewing Card

Shaking Hands Memory Help Sewing Card, unfinished. Printed "child's work" template. Cook Publishing 1909. Elgin, Illinois. Collection Jim Linderman.

Antique Folk Art Doll Wood Carving Late 19th / Early 20th Century

Antique Folk Art Doll Wood Carving. Carved by hand with original paint, circa 1890-1920.
Collection Jim Linderman Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Antique American Folk Art Wood Carving Miniatures

Antique American Folk Art Wood Carving Miniatures. 1" to 2" tall.
Collection Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Doodle Bug Antique Folk Art Drawing Collection Jim Linderman

Doodle Bug early 20th Century Folk Art Drawing Collection Jim Linderman

Antique American Folk Art Sculpture Woman with Necklace 19th Century

Antique American Folk Art Sculpture Woman with Necklace Life sized. Three views. Collection Jim Linderman

Antique Folk Art Toy Carving Articulated Dancing Man

Antique Folk Art Toy Carving Articulated Dancing Man in original "radiator" silver paint. 13" tall.
Collection Jim Linderman

Antique Folk Art Cat Carving Sculpture Playing Card Suit Reminder.

Antique Folk Art Carving Sculpture Playing Card Suit Reminder. Original paint with a subtle reminder that even while playing games, it is hard to escape the current political situation.
Collection Jim Linderman

Antique Redware Folk Art Pottery Figure of a Lamb 19th century Pennsylvania ?

A redware glazed lamb, likely 19th century. The piece has characteristics of Pennsylvania and Shenandoah Valley Virginia figural redware toys like those of Samuel Bell. A large group of similar figures (and glaze) are found HERE. Age and maker unknown.
Redware Lamb collection Jim Linderman

Old Folk Art Carving / Sculpture of a Baby

Old Folk Art Carving / Sculpture of a Baby. Anonymous, circa 1950? Collection Jim Linderman

Machine age paper die cut stamp

Machine age paper die cut stamp, both sides! Collection Jim Linderman
Courtesy BOX LOT on Facebook.

Long lost childhood craft? Antique Folk Art paper cut colorful whatever!

Folk Art paper cutting colorful whatever! I don't know a name for the technique. Paper cutting for sure, as the top portion was folded and cut...then glued atop a second piece of paper which seems to have been painted first. Paper stained glass! If there is someone out there with a name for this (or these) let me know. Maybe a school teacher who was working around the turn of the century?

Collection Jim Linderman

Antique Southern Hooked Rugs Folk Art from Georgia RPPC Collection Jim Linderman

Adairsville, Georgia is about halfway between Atlanta, GA and Chattanooga, TN. Route 75 probably allows one to skirt the roadside craft folk one could have run into during the 1930s, but it looks like Mrs. J. A. Greene did all right. Hooked Rugs and knick-knacks of wood likely made by her son. Folk Art of the rural South. RPPC dated 1941 Collection Jim Linderman
SEE ALSO THE BOOK AND EBOOK IN SITU: AMERICAN FOLK ART IN PLACE available from Blurb.com

19th century Folk Art Hearts on a String paper Momento Love Whimsy

19th century Folk Art Hearts on a String paper Momento Love Whimsy Scrap paper, glue, string. Collection Jim Linderman

Antique Erotic Folk Art Debauched Bacchanal Nude Women Carving

Erotic Folk Art Antique Carving Two Nude Women in Debauched Revelry! Circa 1930 Pennsylvania origin Collection Jim Linderman. Thanks to Mark Smerkanich

Antique Folk Art Sculpture Cod Fish Weathervane with Directional and Original Mount

Antique Folk Art Sculpture Cod Fish Weathervane with Directional and Original Mount circa 1930 Collection Jim Linderman

Antique Folk Art Sculpture Sewer Tile Pottery Man with a Feather in his Cap (and his boss in his hand) End of Day Work

Antique Folk Art Sculpture Sewer Tile Man with a Feather in his Cap (and what appears to be his boss's head in his hand) End of Day Work, usually items like this were produced after a long day. In this case, the worker may be taking revenge on his boss. Circa 1900 Collection Jim Linderman Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Similar piece on a Brick HERE

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The Museum of Everything 2014

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"...grumpy..." The Austin Chronicle 2014

"Perpetually ahead of the collecting curve...a one man Taschen. An authentically curious individual...diligently archiving the forgotten curiosities of American History"

Emma Higgins in Art Hack May 2012

"Jim Linderman likes Art, Antiques and Photography and his collection of Vernacular Photography, Folk Art, Ephemera and Curiosities is a wonderful place..."
LifeElsewhere with Norman B. 2014

"...collected over the years by Jim Linderman, a character who seems the perfect subject for a Harvey Pekar comic. Linderman treats collecting like a calling, and his finds have a resulting air of authority, stunning in their capture of bygone picturesque moments."
Derek Taylor Dusted

"The pictures, discarded artifacts of ecstatic Americana, come from the stash of Jim Linderman, who in his introduction recalls advice he’s plainly taken to heart: “Collect the heck” out of whatever you find interesting."
Drew Jubera Paste Magazine

"His interest in art is rivaled only by his interest in music, and one expression informs the other. He pursues objects with thoroughness and an innate sense of curiosity..."
Tanya Heinrich Folk Art Magazine

"Linderman acknowledges the obscure at the same time that he elevates it.... His collections tell vast stories in sotto voce, allowing curios and objects shadowed by mainstream culture and ideology to converse and be heard. What we hear is an enormous American sub-culture speaking in forbidden, marginalized languages: stuff discovered boxed in the attic out of embarrassment or zealotry, smutty ash trays crowing next to religious pamphlets, each claiming a part of the complex, sometimes contradictory, always conflicted American imagination, a chaos of memories that will one day vanish."
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"...he's one of the world's greatest pickers."
Brian Wallis in The New York Times

"Documenting--one clipping at a time--the scrapbook of a leg and garter aficionado that was dumpster-dived in Virginia in the 60s" "...an outstanding image-archaeologist who has compiled a shelf-ful of worthy and unique photographic histories."
William Smith Hang Fire Books

"Linderman has a knack for discovering untold stories and introducing them to a wider audience"
Joey Lin Anonymous Works

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Could it be Madness-this?

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The Cynephile

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Color Me in Blog

"...there's something beyond the endless photos and postcards and weird propaganda from another time that he lovingly documents - I think it's the collection as a whole, the portrait of a person fascinated with culture and communication. I have met people like this before, and in reading Dull Tool Dim Bulb I feel I have been lucky enough to meet one more. This site is a goldmine in terms of links..."
The Hyggelic Life October 2009

"Linderman is always on the lookout for the new and exciting"
Chuck and Jan Rosenak Contemporary American Folk Art

"...an amazing collection..."
Revel in New York October 2009

"Jim Linderman has a nice little colllection of interesting books and blogs...But every so often he just loses it."
American Digest March 2010

"FOR MOST OF HIS LIFE, COLLECTOR JIM LINDERMAN has searched high and low for authentic things--unique and special objects that define the artistic culture of the American experience. From folk art to popular culture, from pulp fiction to Delta Blues-- Jim is a walking authority on so many things American they are too numerous to mention. One thing is certain-- his collecting interests are for things that have fallen through the cracks, those things lost and forgotten--the box of material under the table at the flea market booth. If it wasn't for dedicated collectors like Jim Linderman-- so many important objects about our culture would have surely been lost to time and indifference."

"Jim Linderman maintains a most interesting blog about the most amazing things from his collection—a site he calls “Dull Tool Dim Bulb,” the only curse words his father ever uttered. I love it, and read it everyday."
"...an excellent writer and I devour your blog daily. I am impressed at your deep knowledge of things within your niche..."
John Foster Accidental Mysteries

"I am grateful to Jim Linderman for first alerting me to the existence of the 1930s Spiritualist hymn "Jesus is My Air-o-plane."
William Fagaly New Orleans Museum of Art, Author Tools of her Ministry: The art of Sister Gertrude Morgan

"Linderman describes a long gone world...(he) claims not to be a writer but he is most certainly an excellent researcher..."
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"Almost an experimental narrative"
Idiopath

"He came to us with hundreds of jaw-dropping baptism photos that he'd been collecting for 25 years," Ledbetter explains. "By the time he found us, he'd already done half a lifetime's works, and he trusted us to handle it properly." Lance Ledbetter in Creative Loafing 10/13/11

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