Ephemera: German Matchbox Labels

Shailesh Chavda: German matchbox labels

via This Isn't Happiness

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Vintage: Grickily

This is not the first time I mention it - and it probably won't be the last - but PCL made me revisit grickily's Flickr and I suggest you go there too. I mean it. Go!
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Uppdrag för gentlemän

Per Åhlin's 1962 cover for the Swedish edition of Pierre Boulle's Un metier de Seigneur from 1960.


Music: Wowie Zowie!



"Wowie Zowie! was a 1969 sampler album issued by the Decca Records label to promote its then current artists. It is notable for early tracks by Genesis, The Moody Blues, and other bands." - Wikipedia



The music will be available only for a while (a week or so). When it's gone it's gone. So get on with the listening!
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Art: George Grosz

George Grosz, Artist and Model in the Dunes, 1940, oil, gouache and watercolor on paper

George Grosz collection

via Coisas do arco da velha
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Auction: Ingmar's Stuff

A Swedish "Oscar" - the "Guldbaggen" by artist Karl Axel Pehrson. This one awarded, probably for "Fanny and Alexander", to Ingmar Bergman is up for auction.

Bergman possessions up for auction: Personal property of the legendary Swedish Theatre Director and Filmmaker Ingmar Bergman will be up for auction at Bukowski's in Stockholm, Sweden, autumn 2009.

Auction: September 28 Viewing: September 24–27

Browse the catalogue

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Thanks Bibi!
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Lockfågeln

Original title: La femme de paille
Cover by: Rolf Lagerson
Printed: 1958