Two Fiddlers Fiddling Tintype collection Jim Linderman Ferrotype

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A fine pair of fiddlers  Tintype circa 1870 Collection Jim Linderman See Jim Linderman Books and Ebooks for the iPad HERE

World's Smallest Carvers! Engraved Copper Plate Folk Art Eagle

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CLICK TO ENLARGE A tiny copper plate engraving with a pennysworth of Honest Abe for size comparison.  It occurs to me that engravers a...
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Fat Man Tintype Circus Sideshow or Just a Large Man? Collection Jim Linderman

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Certainly the largest man I've ever seen fit onto a tintype.  Sideshow performer or just portly? Tintype circa 1870 collection Ji...

Fake Native American Band RPPC Real Photo Postcard collection Jim Linderman

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Real Photo Postcard circa 1910 Collection Jim Linderman Browse and Purchase Dull Tool Dim Bulb Books and EBOOKS ($5.99)  HERE

The Albatross of Maine Charles Tower's Fantasy Bird from the Insane Hospital collection Jim Linderman

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The Insane Hospital of Augusta, Maine opened in 1840, but much of it burned down ten years later.  Since there were so many insane ...

School for Boys Graduating Class By the Numbers

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CLICK TO ENLARGE URBAN SCHOOLYARD Someone went to plenty of trouble identifying all the young men here.  A few gaps, but not bad. ...

Wyoming Cowboys Roll into Town on a Float

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Click to Enlarge Fake Cowboys The Wyoming Cowboys roll into Cleveland on a float...I will refrain from saying these rough and tough hom...

Buyer Beware Folk Art This Little Piggy Went to Market

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All sold within the last few weeks on eBay.  These would fall into the "antiques made while you wait" category. Th...
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Rhoda Ann Sargent RIP 1886 Hair Folk Art Memorial Tribute Death

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Rhoda Ann Sargent's Hair woven into a tribute.  1886 Collection Jim Linderman Order Jim Linderman books and Ebooks HERE

Tintype Dog with Considerable Eyebrows Tintype Photograph collection Jim Linderman

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A real pair of eyebrows on this li'l fellow.  Perched on a birch stand, man's best friend. Tintype Photograph circa 18...

Rack of Carnival Knock-Down Punks and the Great Bicycle Ramp Jump Collection Jim Linderman

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CLICK TO ENLARGE (collection Jim Linderman) CLICK TO ENLARGE collection Jim Linderman CLICK TO ENLARGE collection Jim Linderman ...

Madcaps Fingerama Musical Madness (I guess...)

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Ladies and Gentlemen, give it up for THE MADCAPS and their original FINGERAMA !!! Original Real Photo Postcard Date Unknown Collection ...

Harlem History and Tan Pin Ups Teena, Vera and Dolores

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One of the earliest significant ads I can find in a mass market periodical offering nude photographs of African-American wo...

Pet Cemetery ? Real Photo Postcard collection Jim Linderman

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Mystery.  Pet Cemetery?  Garden layout?  Any guesses? Real Photo Postcard circa 1900 Collection Jim Linderman Jim Linderman boo...
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Good Boy (Dog) Toy Kraft Company Pull Toy

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Thanks to a friendly follower, what I thought was a craftsman toy project from a kit or hobbyist magazine turns out to be a man...

Baby Betty on Highway 61

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Baby Betty RPCC Collection Jim Linderman In a convoluted story which reads like a mid-1960s Bob Dylan song off Highway 61, Fat lady Ba...
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The Aerial Fire Fiend A.S. Danton the Daredevil of Charleston collection Jim Linderman

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I wish I had this brave young man's story to share, but I'm working on something and don't have time to scroll the mic...

Old Folk Art Doll House of Cardboard Collection Jim Linderman

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CLICK TO ENLARGE TEENY TINY TOILET Featuring a c omplete bathroom with a toilet paper roll, two tiny soap holders with soap,...
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Ghelyoon Okka Nargile Chillim One Hitter Bong

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Ever since Mughal Emperor Akbar invented the hubble-bubble (aka Hookah) mankind has been cooling the smoke he puts into his lungs.  Provid...

Slingshot as Weapon Utilitarian Folk Art Which Puts Food on the Table

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Does this look like a toy?  I used to collect handmade slingshots as pieces of utilitarian folk art…but thought of them as mere pea-shoot...