Nothing Here

 

Holding The Gigantic Bubble

 and everything else too

Françoise Hardy

Françoise Hardy
(17 January 1944 – 11 June 2024)

Vintage Razor Blades and Wrappers

I came across this collection of vintage razor blades in wrappers. They are mostly Swedish and I would guess they are mainly from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.

The hobby of collecting these I know nothing about, however I can imagine it was pretty popular once upon a time. Being an affordable household item with varying and often elaborate design it must have been much like collecting matchboxes/books, bottle caps or cheap stamps.

If anyone has information on the subject or can point to a place of information, let us know.

Vintage Razor Blades and Wrappers

Cycling Home

Simon Palmer - Cycling Home, 1996.

via Ravenous Butterflies (FB)

Combat Aircraft Concepts of the Cold War

Hush-Kit: Batshit exciting combat aircraft concepts of the Cold War via things magazine

And it burns, burns, burns

Dick Sprang, 1944 (altered)

Maimed and Framed

Phantom of the Paradise (1974), Poster illustration by Richard Vance Corben (Neal Adams)

Golden Age

click to enlarge image

Martijn van der Klasch 

"Ursula van de Klomp, musician" 

 AI/Collage/Photoshop

 

Going Home

Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera

Draken

Creator: Flygvapenmuseum / Matilda Ahl 

| Credit: Stina Hedvall

Copyright: Creative Commons CC-by Flygvapenmuseum

Some retouching has been done to the original.

Summer Snapshots

The original photos from All Things Amazing

An Octopus Devours a Ship

 

Public Domain Review: Orra White Hitchcock’s Scientific Illustrations for the Classroom (1828–40)

Le Bar Bat

Le Bar Bat. Defunct bar in NYC.

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DXCI)

Catch-22

 

Book cover by Per Åhlin. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961), Swedish 1966 edition Moment 22.

Smart-Aleck Kill

 

Book cover by Per Åhlin. Smart-Aleck Kill by Raymond Chandler (1958), Swedish 1966 edition Bittra mandlar (Bitter Almonds).

Dust Jacket Cover Art and More

Ivan Chekhov - Flickr

"Collection of U.S. dust jacket cover art starting from the 1920's and paperback & digest cover art from the U.S., UK, Canada and Australia starting from the end of the 1930's - organized in chronological Albums per publisher / series"

Found through This isn't happiness

Good Night

Takato Yamamoto

In The Land Called Svithjod

Abecedarian

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

Illustrations from T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by Nicolas Bentley, 1940.