Posts Tagged ‘Collections’
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My mate Paul collected collections. He wrote a book, ‘Recollections of a Collection Collector.’ It was never published. Lance Stater – Detectorists, Series #1 Episode 6 Back in 2019 I attended Boring IX, a conference dedicated to the “celebration of the mundane, the ordinary, the obvious and the overlooked”. As ever the day was anything […]
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Tags: Boring IX, Box certificates, Boxes, Cardboard boxes, Collection, Collections, Collector, Detectorists, Joyce Smith, Lance Stater
Radio, Live Transmission
Earlier this year I attended Boring IX, a conference dedicated to the “celebration of the mundane, the ordinary, the obvious and the overlooked”. As ever the day was anything but boring, with my personal highlight being the talk from Joyce Smith. Joyce spoke about her love of box certificates, the circular stamps that contain essential shipping […]
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Tags: Boring, Boring IX, Box certificates, Collecting, Collections, Joyce Smith, QSL cards, Radio
Ladybird Ladybird
Another batch of Ladybird books has arrived at Weir HQ and I don’t think I’ve ever added a finer selection to the number that I already own. Thanks to a colleague’s local auction house I am now the owner of a number of 1st edition Ladybirds resplendent in pristine matching dust jackets. Admittedly they’re some of […]
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Tags: Books, Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald, Childrens Books, Collecting, Collection, Collections, Ladybird, Ladybird Books, Stanley Roy Badmin, The Ladybird Book of Trees, Trees, Wills & Hepworth Ltd
Collecting Collections
As a collector of far too many things, Roo Reynolds’ recent excellent blog post on collecting explains an awful lot. I’ve never really considered why I collect what I collect because I think that travelling down roads such as those is probably a dangerous business and to be honest I don’t need any additional help in the […]
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Tags: Collecting, Collections, Collector's World, Roo Reynolds, The Electric Banana
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