The Vulgar Eclectic

Tag: collecting

  • Turok!

    Things are looking pretty grim for Turok and Andar in this old Gold Key issue I picked up a while ago. I just love the Gold Key painted covers! I haven’t read it yet, but the cover intrigues me…it looks as if Turok and Andar are actually holding on to the feet of the “flyers”,…

  • 8 Babies and 4 Bugs

    Several months ago I came across a very memorable postcard. I finally got it scanned and added to the postcard page. It’s interesting enough that I thought I would make a post about it here.  It’s an old card, with one cent postage domestic and two cents foreign. I don’t know what in the world…

  • Postcard potpourri

    I added a number of new postcards to the postcard pages. Some of them I picked up to mail with particular people in mind. It’s fun finding old postcards and writing a note to someone special and mailing them off.

  • Postcard

    I recently received a new postcard in the mail for my collection. It features the Russian writer Anton Chekhov (and a couple of cute dogs!). It’s the third postcard I’ve gotten with a picture of Chekhov. He is one of my favorite writers. This card is blank and unposted. Here’s the front:

  • Whaling

    This set of whaling-themed tobacco cards from Ogden’s was released in 1927. It’s a 25 card set with beautiful images of ships, whales, sailors, and equipment. I can’t help but be reminded of Melville’s great chronicle of the sea, and Ahab’s obsessive quest for the solitary leviathan called by sailors Moby Dick.  “But as for…

  • Sea Adventure

    I added a new set of tobacco cards to my small collection. As you can see from the back of the card, it is called Sea Adventure and consists of 50 cards. There are quite a few beautiful images in the set, and I think this Robinson Crusoe one is a good example.