This wikizine is all about old catalogs!...All kinds of old catalogs in every category!
Department store catalogs, car parts catalogs, boating catalogs, clothing catalogs, novelty and magic catalogs...The list is endless!
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This wikizine is all about old catalogs!...All kinds of old catalogs in every category!
Department store catalogs, car parts catalogs, boating catalogs, clothing catalogs, novelty and magic catalogs...The list is endless!
We're going to focus, mainly, on catalogs issued before 1980...
.Find an area that you like, maybe it's fishing lures or old guns and start collecting old catalogs too!
Anything you can contribute by way of photos or info (like sources for old catalogs, articles on old catalogs, your personal experiences, etc) will be greatly appreciated!
For complete DOWNLOADS of these Gambling Catalogs...Go to: http://www.acnovelty.info
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As I have always contended, collecting old catalogs is a hobby for anyone and everyone! …You're bound to find a category that you can collect whatever your interests may be...from fishing to gambling!
Gambling???......That opens up a very interesting little niche that I want to talk about today...Not just gambling , but crooked gambling!
More specifically, what I am talking about... Read Full Story
From the 1921 Montgomery Ward MidWinter Sale Catalog
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Forrest Flanders here again for OLD CATALOGS.
I’ve been busy for the past week with catalog scans.
I I’ve just uploaded a scan of a 1960 Crooked Gambling Supply House catalog (the K.C. Card Co. of Chicago) to Flickr…It’s a scan of the entire 77 page catalog…I think you’ll find it fascinating!...You can access it at this URL: http://flickr.com... Read Full Story
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This is Forrest Flanders for OLD CATALOGS...
This has been a long and tedious project, but now it's completed.
For the past week, I've been working on a complete scan of the Eaton's 1917-1918 Fall/Winter catalog.
It's a biggie and runs 529 pages!
I think it's one of their best old catalogs and it beats the previous Eaton's catalog (1917 Eatons Spring/Summer) that I scanned for you last week...
Just go to this URL to view the entire... Read Full Story
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This week I “camera scanned“ a 1935 Johnson Smith & Co. Supplemental Catalog …This was their last year in the Racine, Wisconsin location…It’s written like a newsletter with “Vol.1 No.9” appearing on the front cover together with the date “Feb., 1935”… .,..The catalog runs 48 full-sized pages measuring 7 ½” X 10” !...That’s about double the size of their regular catalog issues (which normally measure approx. 5” X 8”).
I... Read Full Story
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I have just uploaded a complete "camera" scan of a rare Royal Novelty Co. catalog that was issued circa 1922...We have seen this catalog offered for between $20.00 to $125. on the collector market.
Royal was based in Norwalk, Connecticut and were a mild "competitor" to the Johnson Smith & Co. novelty company, although their catalog and inventory could... Read Full Story
