Won four auctions on eBay today! A $.01 bid got me a 1954 letter from the Mayor of New Orleans. I’m trying to figure out how to pay for it. Send it via PayPal or should I mail the guy a penny? There’s no shipping charge on the item. I’ve emailed the seller to find out how to proceed.
But this begs the question, the one you’re dying to ask… why the hell do you want a letter from the mayor of New Orleans, written in 1954? Hey. It’s a penny. Okay? I’ll use it in one of my 3-D collages, maybe next to the letter by J. Edgar Hoover. I also paid $5.00 for 10 legal documents from the late 1800s. Again — artistic possibilities abound.
The nice thing about collecting vintage papers is the story each one contains. Story? I mean “stories”. I daresay a novel could be written using just one item as the inspiration for the plot. The link is to Rob’s BANS for ephemera, he made it for me so I could search for papers easier. [oops, there it is again, that personal unpaid unsponsored link.]
There’s this little other sale I won. Shipping is $8.95 so I had to limit the amount I’d pay for the items, but my total was under $20 with shipping cost. I bought a junk drawer full of papers. Some books, letters, old cards, some swell postcards (the fold-out kind) and more.
When I finally take the time to sell my stuff on eBay, I will sell it by the junk drawer-full. I love those auctions. Trust me — I can fill a lot of virtual junk drawers. Just ask my friends… where do you think I got the stuff?
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