Ephemera of Finance

Used and unused checks from Girard Trust and Republic National Bank, a receipt from the once great jewelry giant Linz Bros as well as a receipt from the iconic, Dallas based Neiman Marcus (when they were still quite a young company).

All are records of money collected and money spent. Not much has changed aside from our penmanship.

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Early 1900s Mugshots

Six ancient and yellowed police booking cards featuring photos of hardened and desperate men.
$50 each.

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Texas International Pop Festival Handbill

This incredible music event was Texas’ answer to Woodstock, happening just two weeks after Woodstock’s end. World class performances by Led the three day festival featured world class performances by Led Zeppelin, BB King, Chicago and many others.

This is an original handbill for the festival and would have been
sold as a souvenir. Sold.

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Vintage Girlie Magazines

Just got in a huge collection of 50s and 60s girlie mags. Here are a few of our favorites. $15. Each.

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The Odd, Unusual and Unique Can Be Found at Dolly Python

Dolly Python is not purposely weird, she’s not trying to be the odd girl. Dolly does her thing springing out if her tastes and wants. Dolly has no choice. Dolly’s hands are tied. Below you’ll see just a few of her favorite things. We’d love it if you’d stop by and view the rest.

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Album of Victorian Trade Cards

During the mid-1870s, about the time of the Philadelphia Centennial, printing processes hit a new height and little slices of Americana now referred to as trade cards quickly became popular with Victorian collectors. Today, collectors once again seek these old-time predecessors to modern day business cards.

The album below is filled with over 100 die cut and/or lithograph trade cards from this era. $125.

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Tijuana Bibles

Tijuana bibles (also known as eight-pagers, bluesies, gray-backs, Jiggs-and-Maggie books, jo-jo books, Tillie-and-Mac books, and two-by-fours) were little pornographic comic books produced in the United States from the 1920s to the early 1960s. Their popularity peaked during the Great Depression era. The typical “bible” was an eight-panel comic strip in a wallet-size 2.5×4 inch format (approximately 7×10.5 cm) with black print on cheap white paper and running eight pages in length.

Illegal, clandestine, and anonymous, the artists, writers, and publishers of these booklets are generally unknown. The quality of the artwork varied widely. The subjects are explicit sexual escapades usually featuring well known newspaper comic strip characters, movie stars, and (rarely) political figures, invariably used without respect for either copyright or libel law and without permission. Tijuana bibles repeated without a trace of self-consciousness the ethnic stereotypes found in popular culture at the time, although one Tijuana bible (“You Nazi Man”) concluded on a serious note with a brief message from the publisher pleading for greater tolerance in Germany for the Jews.

Most Tijuana bibles were obscene parodies of popular newspaper comic strips of the day, like “Blondie”, “Barney Google”, “Moon Mullins”, “Popeye”, “Tillie the Toiler”, “Dick Tracy”, “Little Orphan Annie”, “Bringing Up Father”, “Dixie Dugan”, and “Mutt and Jeff”. Others made use of characters based on popular movie stars and sports stars of the day, like Mae West and Joe Louis, sometimes with names thinly changed to (presumably) avoid libel. Before the war almost all the stories were humorous and frequently were cartoon versions of well-known dirty jokes that had been making the rounds for decades.
-source: wikipedia.

$10. Each.

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Random Reading Materials

Just a sampling of the many random reading materials we have here for sale.

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Erotic Art

Fascinating book originally sold as two volumes, published in this incarnation as one. Features erotic art through the ages from various cultures around the world. Hot! $28.

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