tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post4970408292429073508..comments2024-01-08T14:21:37.465-08:00Comments on Infinite Art Tournament: The Straw-Stacker Stamp Album of Grandpa5000Michael5000http://www.blogger.com/profile/10148584819327475239noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-25882596582805037572011-05-19T12:57:56.949-07:002011-05-19T12:57:56.949-07:00Update: Handwriting -- not Grandpa's! Provena...<b>Update: Handwriting -- not Grandpa's! Provenance -- unknown, unknowable.</b>Michael5000https://www.blogger.com/profile/10148584819327475239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-51863164634093606422011-05-16T21:09:38.736-07:002011-05-16T21:09:38.736-07:00I like to think that your grandfather inherited th...I like to think that your grandfather inherited this album from someone in the same fashion as you received yours, making it a family tradition. I too approve of this blog theme.Aviatrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13634111275860140084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-12863456080682592542011-05-16T18:00:44.184-07:002011-05-16T18:00:44.184-07:00Me as well! I have a stamp collection - over 5K s...Me as well! I have a stamp collection - over 5K stamps, covering about 95% of the countries of the world (naturally, I made a map showing the countries I have) but the ones I like the most are the old stamps exactly like what your grandfather had (and you have now). Keep it and cherish it forever. (My dad did the same thing, collected stamps when he was little, stopped after a few years, recently he offered me his stamp album and, while it's full of the old (ie pre 1960 or so stamps that are mostly one colour, like what you show) stamps that I like, I asked him to keep it, so that he can still get enjoyment out of it. i offered to take it after he passes on, so that I can remember him when I look at his stamps.<br /><br />I too was wondering about that African countries list, as there wasn't that many African countries to begin with (the Scramble for Africa left I think just two countries (Liberia and Ethiopia) unclaimed by European powers on the continent). I have a map of Europe my grandmother drew for a homework assignment in the early 1920s that also lists countries and their capitals (however, I think she may have copied them from somewhere, she lists the capital of Turkey as Moscow, then the capital of Russia as Oslo, then the capital of Norway as Stockholm, etc.) I also got from her after she died an old atlas; it seems to have been published in early September 1939, and has a postscript in it of how Poland no longer exists, having been recently conquered by Germany and the Soviet Union.<br /><br />One can never put a price on these.dhkendallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04810149407928718294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-32286538027967485442011-05-16T16:56:43.562-07:002011-05-16T16:56:43.562-07:00Judging from the comments, this series is going to...Judging from the comments, this series is going to be a big big hit.Jennershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08044537551139633301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-13323557076280211562011-05-16T10:48:32.007-07:002011-05-16T10:48:32.007-07:00Aww, the best kind of gift! (And one of the best k...Aww, the best kind of gift! (And one of the best kinds of jests.)Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09075041892999096779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-81109150488409481822011-05-16T10:43:56.700-07:002011-05-16T10:43:56.700-07:00Jennifer, you think you jest, but when I found the...<b>Jennifer, you think you jest, but when I found the 1898 Dept of Agriculture census of sugar beet production in a heap of rubbish, I knew that Mrs.5000 would be on Cloud 9. And I was right!</b>Michael5000https://www.blogger.com/profile/10148584819327475239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-81115205573106679052011-05-16T10:00:21.767-07:002011-05-16T10:00:21.767-07:00Gape-worm disease in fowls? *Swoon!*
Congratulati...Gape-worm disease in fowls? *Swoon!*<br /><br />Congratulations on your new collection! Instead of receiving postcards and old maps and things, your family can receive old agricultural texts for all the major gift-giving holidays--something to look forward to!<br /><br />Now, if only I could find an old postcard of a farmer driving a straw-stacker across a map of a midwestern state....Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09075041892999096779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-89543986340001529782011-05-16T09:55:11.025-07:002011-05-16T09:55:11.025-07:00I love it. And am impressed at all the research al...I love it. And am impressed at all the research already! But we're not selling. I declare this a priceless cornerstone of our Proto-Book-Arts collection, since it turns out we have TWO late 19th C. agricultural publications with fabulous paste-ins. Perhaps a future post on the prettification of gape-worm disease in fowls is in order.mrs.5000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-84729325018165065032011-05-16T08:23:59.262-07:002011-05-16T08:23:59.262-07:00AIEEEE! Blogger just ate a comment of mine that wa...AIEEEE! Blogger just ate a comment of mine that was almost as long as the original post (allowing for some exaggeration).<br /><br />Sigh.<br /><br />In more cursory fashion:<br /><br />I was going along with UO, agreeing about the dates of the countries and anticipating (in a clever and uber-dorky fashion which is now lost to eternity) Michael5000's comments about outdated reference materials and noting that the student was apparently writing down a list orally (based on the spelling "Mozambeak" and others).<br /><br />This is not the only company to have a Thresherman's Account Book printed for distribution. A. B. Baker of Baker Randolph Printers died in 1892, and most references seem to end in 1893; however, in the 1940s, a Randolph of Chicago (where they also had had a base) became president of a printer's union, so perhaps Randolph took over Baker-Randolph.<br /><br />I couldn't identify the fonts, but they seem consistent with a late Victorian/Art Nouveau period.<br /><br />I couldn't read the "Compliments of" guy unless it's "T. Wright," in which case I couldn't find any references to a T. Wright associated with Reeves & Co.<br /><br />I couldn't find info on the patents, but the straw stacker was invented 1881. Since it's No. 3, I would assume that the earliest possible date would be 1883, though this marketing tool might well not have been implemented immediately.<br /><br />In short, other evidence does corroborate the suggestion that the book could have been printed, distributed, and written in around the mid 1880s through early 1890s.Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09075041892999096779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-3737117930501543922011-05-16T07:35:08.359-07:002011-05-16T07:35:08.359-07:00Pretty sure I've been hooked on various M5000 ...Pretty sure I've been hooked on various M5000 items (except the postcards, I find them boring) for quite a while now, nothing new.<br /><br />Africa is fun times.UnwiseOwlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09466448988499591715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-59388748283975940772011-05-16T07:15:11.079-07:002011-05-16T07:15:11.079-07:00Owl: I think the list describes the state of play ...<b>Owl: I think the list describes the state of play in Africa, from a Euro perspective, before the 1888 Treaty of Berlin recarved the map into the fairly arbitrary shapes that we still have today. That means that our scholar would be working before 1888... OR, after 1888, with outdated reference materials. Which is consistent with a kid having used the book in the late 1880s in school, then digging it up a year or two later for a stamp album.<br /><br />Elaine: Why wouldn't he be hooked?</b>Michael5000https://www.blogger.com/profile/10148584819327475239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-22201442271956236712011-05-16T06:33:15.832-07:002011-05-16T06:33:15.832-07:00So, M5000 claims at least ONE victim with this blo...So, M5000 claims at least ONE victim with this blog entry. Unwise Owl is HOOKED!!Elainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13195458656221202202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-55694031437644492812011-05-16T05:09:22.075-07:002011-05-16T05:09:22.075-07:00Hrmm... looking at a few period documents, and thi...Hrmm... looking at a few period documents, and this list looks pretty similar to this 1885 atlas...investigations continue.<br /><br /><a rel="nofollow">http://www.library.illinois.edu/contentdm/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/africanmaps&CISOPTR=578&CISOBOX=1&REC=18</a>UnwiseOwlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09466448988499591715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-77605625692137911812011-05-16T04:51:02.849-07:002011-05-16T04:51:02.849-07:00Whenever this comes from it's pretty cool. If ...Whenever this comes from it's pretty cool. If I were you I wouldn't part with it for $500.UnwiseOwlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09466448988499591715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-74243043055772208462011-05-16T04:50:37.183-07:002011-05-16T04:50:37.183-07:00Assuming that whoever this student was was learnin...Assuming that whoever this student was was learning about CURRENT African countries we can assume this book was used between 1927 and 1934, because it lists Tripoli as a country in its own right (after Italian North Africa and before Libya)....<br />Then again, the Orange Free State stopped existing in what... 1899? And Senegambia only existed for a few years last century...<br />I give up.UnwiseOwlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09466448988499591715noreply@blogger.com