An African-American Calling Card in Calligraphy Mance McDaniel Plantation Entertainer?

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Elegant and a bit odd, what appears to be the calligraphic calling card of a 19th century performer. The name is certainly an unusual font....

Antique American Folk Art Button Table Mat

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A somewhat obsessive table mat with over 1,000 individually sewn buttons, circa 1940. 18" x 30" with irregular patterns. The pi...

Andy Warhol "Limited Edition Prints" by the USPS and Fred Collins

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Two limited edition prints here. One is a limited edition print of sorts (a United States postage stamp) affixed to another print on an ...

Antique Folk Art Animal Carvings with Original Paint

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Antique Folk Art Animal Carvings with Original Paint. "Make-do" mounted with wires. Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bu...

Lisa Z. Sigel The People's Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America Book Review

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Lisa Sigel is an audacious scholar. Her field of study is old as the species, but still appears to scare the pants off academia. None o...

Wood Carving Folk Art Puppet Head original paint circa 1950

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Wooden Folk Art Puppet Head original paint circa 1950 Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Meet the Press Leatrice Joy Original Press Photograph 1921

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I don't get to use the word exhuberant very often, but this "edited" for publication press photograph certainly is. Nearly mo...

Antique American Folk Art Automobile Collection. Made by Hand Vintage Wood Carving Toys c. 1930 Original Paint

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Antique American Folk Art Automobile Collection. Made by Hand Vintage Wood Carving Toys c. 1930 Original Paint. Each approx. 6" long....

Antique Folk Art Paper Cut / Folded Paper Froebel "Kindergarten" Projects circa 1903 - 1904 by Kenneth Miles Litchfield, CT Collection Jim Linderman

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Antique Folk Art Paper Cut / Folded Paper Froebel "Kindergarten" Projects circa 1903 - 1904 by Kenneth Miles, Litchfield, CT. The ...

Gorillas in Chains! Folk Art Real Photo Postcard

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A handsome giant gorilla is shown in the Crescent City Totem Pole Park, and a rudimentary smaller version from my shelf. Real Photo Postcar...

How to Index and Catalog your Video Collection!

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An amateur filmmaker (or video camera nut) indexes each one of his hundreds of films with a three-ring binder. Each one Hand drawn! No les...

Outsider Art Journalism from Home! Douglas Levicki Amateur Homedrawn Newspaper from England

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One of Douglas Levicki's handmade newspapers "The Enterprise Magazine" published (in his mind) in 1935. The reporter produce...

Antique carved folk art stone

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An antique folk art stone handcarved with incised initials. Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Naive Outsider Art of Moses Baker

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Naive Outsider Art of Moses Baker. 1974-1975. No further information on the artist. Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Tintograph Stencil Children's Art Kit c. 1915

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Several of these lovely 19th century stencil kits for children have been refound and posted over the years, but this one appears to be missi...

19th Century Folk Art Ledger with Drawings from Students in a One Room School

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Drawings dated 1894 from a one room school in King's Corner, Ohio. Doesn't seem to be much of a town there anymore. Note one drawi...

Untitled Cement Sculpture (Man looking Left) circa 1950 Collection Jim Linderman

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Untitled Cement Sculpture (Man looking Left)  circa 1950 15" tall. Collection Jim Linderman

Giant Tin Sardine Can Submarine Explores Lake Michigan Waters Folk Art Fish Sculpture

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Well, a giant homemade fish submarine!  "Lake Crossing in Sardine Can" reads the caption.  I'm not sure the date.  The fis...

Rasmus Petersen

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Rasmus Petersen stands by his rock garden Statue of Liberty with an odd plaque reading "Enjoy yourself, it's later than you thi...

Antique Articulated Figure Folk Art Dancing Man

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Antique Articulated Figure Folk Art Dancing Man c. 1920 Collection Jim Linderman