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Trade Catalogs

Trade Catalogs of any ilk... plus covers, contents, history and resources

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Trade Catalogs

Trade Catalogs of any ilk... plus covers, contents, history and resources

April 29

Gary Roberts replied to Alana's discussion 'Can someone tell me what this is?'

Rita Holcomb said:LOL....not a Bridge or Canasta player are ya Gary? Whomever is keeping score is We and the opposing team is They.............. Only down here in Texas we use Us and Them! Nah. at best a poker player and in that game, there is on...

April 16

Gary Roberts replied to Alana's discussion 'Can someone tell me what this is?'

see...that library degree actually helps sometimes!

April 15

Gary Roberts replied to Alana's discussion 'Can someone tell me what this is?'

My take on it is a game score card for long distance train travel. The Zephyr and Vista-Domes were, passenger trains that crossed small places like the Rockies. The Ship-Travel refers to a suggestion to both ship goods and travel on the Burlington...

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Trade Catalogs

Trade Catalogs of any ilk... plus covers, contents, history and resources

April 9

Gary Roberts replied to martyweil's discussion 'What is your most prized piece of ephemera? Why?'

What a tough question. I'm torn between the Jos. Harm Trade Catalog, c1910 that offers Dutch, French, English and US woodworking tools. Complete with translations of the name of each tool. This one catalog has proved to be a gold mine for informat...

March 5

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early 19th Century joiners indentures

I've a friend who is looking for either copies of, or to purchase some examples of early 19th C carpenters or joiners indenture papers, preferably British but US also. All I have is early 18th C. If anyone has any, or knows of any, please give me ...

March 5

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Interest in Ephemera: Dealer/Collector, Curator/Archivist

About Me:: Specializing in the ephemera, photographs and books of early tools, trades, crafts and industries. As a librarian and archivist, I tend to bring my work ethics into my avocational pursuits. The end result is a blog and a website devoted to my favorite topic... ephemera and old tools.

My other avocation is ignoring the 30 odd boxes of books in the basement that really need to be sold to make room for more Stuff...

In addition to the main Toolemera site, there is also a blog from whence I may choose to inflict my opinions upon an unsuspecting world:

http://toolemerablog.typepad.com/

Website:: http://www.toolemera.com

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Widening the circle

Silly me. I was looking for the TEN blog and neglected to look down. Here it is. I just added a post over at my blog, extolling the virtues of The Ephemera Network (whilst inflicting my overblown prose on the unwary). While most of my readers are woodworkers, even they pick up a book, or a trade catalog or... gasp... even a billhead on occassion. With luck, some new blood will be brought into the fold

Gary

Posted on May 31, 2008 at 10:48am — 2 Comments

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At 4:00pm on August 30, 2008, Valerie MacEwan said…: The toolemera? I misread it, thought you blogged about tularemia...

oops. no rabbit fever here.
-val

At 12:42pm on June 3, 2008, Gary Roberts said…: Hi Gejus... thanks for adding me. It would be best to drop the email list as that is actually a group list rather then mine own! I put my list on hold for a while during yet another site rebuild. Thanks
Gary

At 11:56am on June 3, 2008, Gejus van Diggele said…: Hi Gary,
I started new Groups for dealers per theme and took the liberty of adding you to the Group Book dealers.
I hope that is o.k.
Please check the text and let me know if you want any changes.
Gejus

At 2:09pm on June 1, 2008, Gejus van Diggele said…: Great pics of woodwork ephemera. Thanks for showing.

At 10:43am on May 31, 2008, Gary Roberts said…: In the spirit of legal spamming, I added a post over at my blog to introduce people to The Ephemera Network...

Toolemera Blog

At 12:36pm on May 30, 2008, Mike Ferguson said…: Gary,
Welcome to T.E.N. and thanks for being one of our pioneering members.

At 7:13am on May 29, 2008, Gary Roberts said…: My thanks for the invite. It's good to see a community of ephemerists assembling online. Amongst the tools and trades community, we have many blogs and forums within which to socialize, exchange stories, ask questions etc. etc. It's high time ephemerists became less ephemeral and more visible!

At 6:00am on May 29, 2008, Gejus van Diggele said…: Hi Gary,
Welcome to this Network. Glad you are connected. A new tool to add more to your collection.