Posts tagged vintage
Hélios Typeface Specimen
Fonderie Typographique Française
Monkey Brand Soap Advertising, ca. 1895 (via Wayside Mews Collectables)
Creeptastic.
Chocolates for Breakfast Book Covers
Since its publication in 1956, “Chocolates for Breakfast” has appeared in eleven languages, including French, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, German, Japanese, and Swedish. It was a bestseller in the US, Italy, and France.
In the US, according to the Bantam paperback edition, it went through 11 printings and sold over one million copies.
Compass rose from a 1956 map of Westphalia (via Michael Stoll)
“No other trade brings its craftsmen so naturally into direct touch with the greatest thoughts of famous men and women as that of the printer…”
Save waste fats for explosives (via Retronaut where there are more from the WWII series)
Scurvy (1859)
“A remarkable atlas with portraits of patients suffering from various diseases. Baumgärtner, professor of medicine in Freiburg, taught it was possible to make a correct diagnosis with accompanying medical treatment by studying the patient’s physiognomy, the expression of the face, the colour of the skin, the eyes, the lips, etc.” — Wunderkammer)
Farbbanddose Helvetica Typewriter Ribbon Tin (by Georg Sommeregger)
Bossmobile Gal Friday Execustreak, 1958
Bulgemobile Corp. decided to give the busy Fifties executive the break he needed with its premier dream car for the ’58 season. Enter the fabulous Bossmobile, where the high-salaried corporate big shot could sit back, digest his three-martini lunch, and dictate memos or gab to his golf pro on the portable Electrofone or just uncap the Johnny Walker in the lower right-hand desk drawer for a bracing nip or three before the Bossmobile deposited him at his split-level suburban home in time for cocktail hour.From Bruce McCall’s 2001 book “The Last Dream-o-Rama” (via Tom Wigley)
Wagon Jazz from the Wagon Leader! (via The Pie Shops)
See more jazzy woodgrain station wagons in detail at Chromeography.
Flea market find: Lingua, a German Scrabble-like game from 1972.
Genzsch & Heyse: Chronik 1833-1908
(via Klingspor Museum)
Hits The Mark Sign (by Barry Smith)
