Forgotten Bookmarks: 2018

Giveaway winner

This week's giveaway winner was Debbie Barton, who entered on Facebook.

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Friday Giveaway: Nine Antique Books - contest closed

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The Christmas House

Lovely little fold out Christmas card.

Found in "Numbers: Count and Color" published by Samuel Lowe, no date.

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Giveaway winner

This week's winner was @RamblinGarden, who entered on Twitter.

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Friday Giveaway: signed copy of my book HANDWRITTEN RECIPES - contest closed

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Giveaway winner

This week's winner was Robin Choy, who entered on Facebook.

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Friday Giveaway: Signed Copy of my book FORGOTTEN BOOKMARKS - contest closed

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Festive Sponge

Recipe for orange sponge cake:

Beat whites of three eggs stiff.
Add 3 yolks, one at a time, beating constantly.
Add - gradually - one cup of sugar, grated rind of one orange and one-third cup of orange juice.
Fold in one cup flour, sifted with one teaspoon baking powder and 1/4 teaspoon salt.

Turn into buttered shallow pan, and bake in a moderate over - 25 or 20 minutes.

Found in "St. Nicholas' Travels" by Hertha Pauli. Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1945.

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Kick Me When I'm Down

Jim Bunning baseball card from 1957, Topps 338.

Found in "The Minister Who Kicked The Cat" by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott. Published by D. Appleton and Co., 1932.

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Giveaway winner

This week's winner was @rae_of__light, who entered on Instagram.

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Friday Giveaway: Nine Classic Children's Books - contest closed

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Giveaway winner

This week's winner was Jessica R-W, who entered here on the site.

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Friday Giveaway: Eight Vintage Classics - contest closed

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Giveaway winner

This week's winner was Bridget Shanahan, who entered on Facebook.

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Friday Giveaway: 12 Vintage Children's Nonfiction Books - contest closed

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Round Of Applause

Name card of Mr. William D. Clapp.

Found in "Pierre The Organ Boy" by T.S. Arthur. Published by Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1854.

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Vintage postcard featuring Simone Simon and Don Ameche. No writing on reverse side.

Found in "On The Educational Front" by William Wattenberg. Published by Columbia University Press, 1936.

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Giveaway winner

This week's winner was David D. Brennan, who entered here on the site via email.

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Friday Giveaway: Nine Antique Classics - contest closed

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Chicken In The Rough

Photograph, no date or writing on reverse. In the background there's a sign for "Martin's Chicken in the Rough." Before KFC, Burger King or McDonalds, Chicken in the Rough was a well-known franchise restaurant, it's first location in Oklahoma City. The picture above is from "Martin's," which was the Syracuse, NY location.

Found in "Behind My Greasepaint" by Coco the Clown. Published by Hutchinson, 1950.

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Giveaway winner

This week's winner was @Big5Army, who entered on Twitter.

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Friday Giveaway: 10 Vintage Children's Books - contest closed

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Patterns

Handwritten knitting pattern (or so I am told).

Found in "The Wanderers" by Peter Parley. Published by D. Appleton, 1855.

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All Stars

Schedule (with some scores) from the 1928-1929 Converse High School basketball season.

Found in "Virginia Beautiful" by Wallace Nutting. Published by Old America Co., 1930.

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Giveaway winner

This week's winner was Kayla Carr, who entered on Facebook.

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Friday Giveaway: Eight Vintage Classics - contest closed

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Clowning Around

Inscription:

Steal not this book
you little clown
there is a jail at Cooperstown

I love you with my heart

Your frend

Written in "New Education Readers: Book Four" published by the American Book Company, 1901.

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Mother's Day

Bookmark:

A Bookmark for Mother

Laden with love

This bookmark goes to the dearest of mothers,

From one who knows.

- To Mother

From Jerry and Fred

On the reverse side is written "Mother's Day 1927."

Found in "The Rumford Complete Cookbook"by Lily Haxworth Wallace. Published by The Rumford Co., 1925.

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Giveaway winner

This week's winner was @zimmerpants, who entered on Instagram.

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Friday Giveaway: Eight Children's Classics - contest closed

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Jeanette and Mary

Photograph.

Written on the front: "Jeannette - Mary."

On reverse: "Mary Louise and and Jeanette McIntosh, Rome NY. 1945 - 7 and 9 years old. For Mrs. Mattice."

Found in "Jessie Graham" by Mary J. Holmes. Published by Dillingham, 1906.

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Spencer For Hire

Basketball card featuring Spencer Haywood of the Sonics from 1968.

Found in "A Midwife's Tale" by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Published by Vintage, 1990.

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Giveaway winner

This week's winner was Marnie Vasquez, who entered via email.

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Friday Giveaway: Seven Modern Library Classics - contest closed

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Portrait of a Lady

Small photograph.

On the reverse side is written Harriett Jackson Bennett.

Found in "Ten Boys Who Lived on The Road From Long Ago To Now" by Jane Andrews. Published by Ginn and Co., 1895.

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Giveaway winner

This week's winner was @debovine, who entered on Instagram.

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Friday Giveaway: Eight Vintage Classics - contest closed

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Puzzled

Trade card advertising Pond's Extract. This one is a puzzle card, with some hidden images in the background.

Found in "Building The Nation" by Charles Carelton Coffin. Published by Harper and Brothers, 1883.

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Danger In Boy's Town

Six Boy's Town stamps.

Found in "Danger In Paradise" by Octavius Roy Cohen. Published by The Popular Library, 1944.

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Grizzly

Crayon drawing. Written on the reverse side is "Cathy, 1972."

Found in "King of The Grizzlies" by Ernest Thompson Seton. Published by Scholastic, 1970.

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Giveaway winner

This week's winner was Ursula M. Kinsler, who entered on Facebook.

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Friday Giveaway: Nine Vintage Books - contest closed

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Kind Remembrance

Inscription:

To Elizabeth
This book -
Tis a token of kind remembrance;
Of true and affectionate regard:
Let it speak the kind wish my heart bears
To thee; and oft as it shall ?? thy ??
May it bring a thought of the absent;
And speak to thee of a faithful friend.

J

Delhi, Dec 5th, 1853

Found in "Select Poems of Mrs. L. H. Sigourney" published by Carey and Hart, 1852.

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Cement

Note:

Receipt for Cementing Wood

Shellac dissolved in alcohol will cement wood together

Found in "Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts in all the Useful and Domestic Arts" published by James Kay, 1829.

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Lucky, Part 98

Dried and pressed four leaf clover.

Found in "Article Thirty-Two" by John R. Oliver. Published by Macmillan, 1931.

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Giveaway winner

This week's winner is Brandy Stewart, who entered on Facebook.

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Friday Giveaway: 10 Antiquarian History Books - contest closed

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Ruddy

Card #16 from the Arm & Hammer "Game Bird Series" dated 1904. This is Ruddy Duck.

Found in "By England's Aid" by G.A. Henty. Published by Hurst and Co., no date.

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