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A.E. PENFOL BROMFORD GOLF BALL ADVERTISING PLAYING CARD
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End Time: 2008-07-23 01:00:28 GMT
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A.E. PENFOL BROMFORD GOLF BALL ADVERTISING PLAYING CARD
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THIS WEEK WE ARE PLEASED TO OFFER SEVERAL UNIQUE EXAMPLES OF EARLY AMERICAN EPHEMERA AND ADVERTISING
PLEASE CHECK OUR OTHER EBAY LISTINGS FOR MORE EXAMPLES OF EARLY EPHEMERA
COLLECTING EPHEMERA
Say the word "ephemera" to a dealer or collector of this material, and you'll be greeted with a delighted smile and regaled with stories of exciting finds and interesting associations. Say the word "ephemera" to the man on the street, and he's likely to reply, "Gesundheit!"
What the heck is this stuff called ephemera? The term (usually pronounced eFEMMera) derives from the Greek ephemeros, "for the day." No two ephemera enthusiasts will come up with quite the same definition - indeed, people have tried for years to develop a universally acceptable phrase to describe this area of collecting interest. In its broadest sense, the word has been adopted to indicate handwritten or printed items of a transitory nature.
Ephemera is usually considered to be two-dimensional material on paper, although there can be exceptions. For example, bookmarks, campaign pin-back buttons, and Scouting badges and pins might not be on paper but would still be considered as ephemera by some collectors. Packaging containers such as cereal boxes or egg cartons are often included in ephemera although they are three-dimensional. In addition, the transitory nature of ephemera varies. Some items are meant to be used once and discarded, such as tickets, advertising flyers, postage stamps, and newspapers. Some ephemera is intended to be kept for a limited time, including magazines, catalogs, calendars, receipts, manuals, posters, instructional booklets, and postcards. Other items are actually produced to be kept and treasured - memorial cards, souvenirs, literary keepsakes, photographs, and items printed with collecting interests in mind, such as trading cards.
Ephemera passes through our hands every day. The utility bills and advertising we receive in the mail, the morning newspaper, the bank statements, the photographs we take while on vacation, the receipt we are handed at a sales counter, the pamphlet we're handed on a street corner, the match book we save from a motel, all can be considered ephemera. There are hundreds of categories of ephemera, including letters, photos, diaries, brochures, seed packets, luggage tags, menus, maps, prints, stocks and bonds, ledgers, broadsides, Victorian trade cards, political and military memorabilia, timetables, deeds, popcorn bags, historical documents, laundry lists, business cards, and so on.
Why do people collect this stuff? Most of us, in fact, are ephemera collectors whether we acknowledge it or not. An album of family photos, the greeting cards or personal correspondence we keep, the post cards from friends and family we save, the political campaign literature and canceled checks that pile up in the desk drawer - all are intentional or unintentional collections of ephemera. Have you ever saved the little stickers from bananas or other fruit? A produce or canned food label with your name on it? The poster from a favorite concert or author appearance? The schoolwork your kids bring home? Programs from school concerts and recitals and graduations? Old driver's licenses or dog tags? Charity or Wildlife stamps you receive with a request for a donation? Surely you have kept certificates of birth, marriage, death, property titles, insurance policies.
But people do collect ephemera both knowingly and knowledgeably. Some of it is mundane while other categories can produce rare and valuable items. These flimsy fragments of paper trace our personal, national, political, and cultural histories as nothing else can. These are the artifacts of our cultural history, as meaningful to our understanding of who we are and where we came from as are the refuse dumps of prehistoric cultures to the archaeologist.
The reasons for collecting ephemera are as numerous as the categories of the material itself. Some love the artistry. Many fine illustrators such as Alphonse Mucha, Maxfield Parrish, Rose O'Neill, and the Leyendeckers created postcards, trade cards, magazine covers and ads, posters, and other illustrated items. Other pieces represent the epitome of design styles, such as Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Art Moderne, or Psychedelic Art. For some, these little paper treasures reveal the history of printing or advertising techniques. Early currencies, stocks and bonds, letterheads, and other pieces of business paper often demonstrate the highest standards of the engraver's art, as well as the evolution of design styles, topography, and printing equipment. One collector has used fruit crate and can labels to detail the legacy of United States Pacific Coast lithographers, as well as the agricultural history of the area.
Collectors, writers, archivists, and researchers use ephemera to trace the history of agricultural tools, veterinary practice, quack medicine, forms of transportation, racial and political issues and historical events, through acquisition of newspapers, magazines, popular music, letters, documents, catalogs, advertising, timetables, and other forms of ephemera. What may seem like whimsy to the uninitiated may, in fact, be part of important historical research. On the other hand, whimsy is just as compelling a reason to collect some ephemera.
Collectors define their own parameters. One person may collect Victorian trade cards, the next only cards having to do with cosmetics, the next with cosmetics cards having to do with soap, and yet another only Fairy Soap cards. Some will pursue anything with their name on it - either a first name, a family name, or items from a family business.
What kind of ephemera should a person collect? I'd have to say, "something you're interested in." What should you pay for it? Whatever you can afford! Important archives and collections have been formed by people who invested little or no money, but who had the ability to perceive historical importance in a specific topic and who were able to acquire and arrange their materials in meaningful ways. Subjects such as food history, Black Americana, tobacciana, political cartoons, regional history, and advertising have lent themselves to the creation of formidable collections for very little monetary outlay. Collectibles such as matchbook covers, postcards, cigar bands, sheet music, bookmarks, business cards, cooking booklets, etc. can often be acquired with little or no financial investment, and collectors of these items often trade with each other to acquire needed examples.
Of course, you can also collect in categories where prices reflect the scarcity and desirability of the items. Historical documents, autographed materials, rare posters and prints, early currencies, photographs of historical significance or by important photographers, manuscripts of important works, early printing, some sports memorabilia, and examples in many other categories demand premium prices, from hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars.
Collector interests are addressed in specialized sites all over the Internet, from small hobby groups collecting poster stamps to university archives of vast collections. Any serious collector will consider joining the Ephemera Society (of America, UK, etc.) The American version puts out an excellent quarterly, an annual, and a member directory, all of which are valuable additions to a reference library.
The few general price guides available are not very useful. Given the range of topics they must cover they can provide only a few entries for each. More useful are specialized references on particular categories of ephemera, such as postcards, valentines, paper dolls, autographs, sheet music, and stereo views. Books on other kinds of collectibles often include ephemera, such as guides to collecting steamship, automotive, railroad, sport, advertising, animal, cowboy, smoking, political, military, or other memorabilia. There are also publications on collecting ephemera, such as Paper Collector's Marketplace and Barr's Postcard News.
DESCRIPTION
THIS WEEK WE OFFER SUPERB EXAMPLES OF RAILROAD, STEAMSHIP, OCEANLINER, CRUISE SHIP AND ADVERTISING PLAYING CARD SINGLES, SOMETIMES CALLED "SWAP" CARDS. ALL THESE CARDS CAME FROM AN EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF EARLY EXAMPLES AND ALLOW THE BUYER TO OBTAIN MULTIPLE ADDITIONS TO THEIR COLLECTIONS. PLAYING CARDS SINGLES OFFER A SIMPLE WAY TO COLLECT DIFFERENT CARDS FROM VARIOUS RAILROADS, WITHOUT PURCHASING COMPLETE, AND SOMETIMES EXPENSIVE, DECKS. THEY ARE GREAT FOR PLACEMENT IN AN ALBUM, WITH SOME OPTING TO FRAME THE COLLECTION FOR VIEWING.
>>> SHIPPING IS COMBINED FOR MULTIPLE EXAMPLES PURCHASED THIS WEEK ~ ANY NUMBER CAN BE SHIPPED FOR A TOTAL PRICE OF $1.00 <<<
THIS FANTASTIC SINGLE EXAMPLE IS A STANDARD SIZE PLAYING CARD.
FEATURED IS AN IMAGE OF A GOLF BALL, FLANKED BY THE HEAD OF A CLUB. LETTERING ON THE BALL READS BROMFORD. OTHER LETTERING READS FEWER STROKES PER ROUND ~ MORE ROUNDS PER BALL.
THE MANUFACTURER OF THE BROMFORD BALL, PENFOL HAS BEEN SYNONYMOUS WITH QUALITY IN THE GOLFING CIRCLES SINCE 1927 WHEN A.E. PENFOLD PATENTED THE WORLDS FIRST DIMPLED GOLF BALL.
INDEED OF INTEREST TO THOSE WHO COLLECT VINTAGE GOLFING MEMORABILIA.
FINE, OLD VINTAGE CONDITION, BEST NOTED BY EXAMINING THE IMAGES OFFERED.
HISTORY OF PLAYING CARDS
Did you know that at one time, the king of hearts represented Charlemagne, the king of Diamonds was Julius Caesar, the king of clubs was Alexander the Great and the king of spades was King David from the Bible? These fascinating identities, along with special designations for the other court cards, were bestowed by the French who were instrumental in bringing the pleasures of card play to people in Europe and the New World.
The earliest playing cards are believed to have originated in Central Asia. The documented history of card playing began in the 10th century, when the Chinese began using paper dominoes by shuffling and dealing them in new games. Four-suited decks with court cards evolved in the Moslem world and were imported by Europeans before 1370. In those days, cards were hand-painted and only the very wealthy could afford them, but with the invention of woodcuts in the 14th century, Europeans began mass-production.
It is from French designs that the cards we use today are derived. France gave us the suits of spades, clubs, diamonds and hearts, and the use of simple shapes and flat colors helped facilitate manufacture. French cards soon flooded the market and were exported in all directions. They became the standard in England first, and then in the British Colonies of America.
Americans began making their own cards around 1800. Yankee ingenuity soon invented or adopted practical refinements: double-headed court cards, to avoid the nuisance of turning the figure upright, varnished surfaces, for durability and smoothness in shuffling), and indexes, for identifying marks placed in the cards.
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