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Queen of the Road.  You would have to look through posts a plenty to find a Gay image on this blog, not that there is anything wrong with it...and there is a first for everything.  Likely one of the most scarce digest size covers by Eugene Bilbrew, African-American fetish artist.  As I have profiled Bilbrew and his work many times, I can't let this one go by without sharing it.  The book, circa 1960-1970 by an unknown author (and unknown publisher) recently sold on ebay.  As such, one of the...Read Full Story

A folk art game board made from plywood.  I know, you folk art snobs, plywood is sneered at.  Well, as I have said before, plywood is now an antique  and THEN some.  The earliest plywood is now well over 100 years old.  I'm going to say this is around 1950?  I'm also saying it is Radiator paint and Boy Scout Blue.  A primitive version of the game Aggravation?  Folk Art Gameboard Collection Jim LindermanBooks and eBooks by Jim Linderman available HERERead Full Story

The cover of one of those "cartoon booklets, the kind men like" advertised in the back pages of magazines way back in the 1920s to the 1950s.  Top Notcher comes from "top notch" a now arcane phrase meaning good.  The jokes inside were cribbed from Smokehouse and Whiz Bang, early Fawcett publications...and likely without permission.Top Notcher 12 page mini-comic risque booklet.  Collection Victor MinxOrder Books and eBooks by Jim Linderman HEREhttp://vintagesleaze.blogspot.com/Read Full Story

I don't know if the lovely ladies posing here are part of the Lewis Stock company, but they are coming to town.Original Snapshot, circa 1920? Collection Jim LindermanJim Linderman Books and Ebook Downloads are HERERead Full Story

CLICK TO ENLARGEA considerable step beyond tinting, and one of those painted tintypes in which the embellishment is far more extraordinary then the sitter.  A Full-Size plate, 6.5" x 8.5 and found in one of those ungodly fat frames which is now in the basement.  Untitled (Woman with Painted Gold Glasses) circa 1880 Ferrotype Tintype Photograph Collection Jim LindermanBOOKS AND eBooks by Jim Linderman are available for purchase HERERead Full Story