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Marvelous Marg
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Retired landscaper/ Collector/ Books/ Ephemera Vintage resale/ 😺Cats/ 🌱Plants/ 🧘MBSR Metro Detroit Derailed by Long Covid since 2020 😷 Politics-free zone❗️
Happy birthday to the master of psychedelic cats, Louis Wain 😺 Read more about the painter 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/the-electrical-art-of-outsider-painter-louis-wain 📷 Wellcome Collection
Japanese artist Tomoko Sato, known for her carving skills as a food sculptor, often using fruit such as melons and apples #WomensArt
Ok, people. It's Ray Collins as Lieutenant Tragg LAPD in Perry Mason. Funny that there only seems to be one cop and one lawyer in all of LA. IYKYK 😉
Marvelous Marg@marvelousmarg.bsky.social · 3d agoSunday night quiz: Who is this man?
The #sun put on a spectacular show last night. 🌞✨ A solar storm triggered beautiful #auroras across northern skies, delighting skywatchers in high-latitude regions. Read today's sun news and be ready for the next aurora. 🌌 buff.ly/psrnJek 📸 This is what an aurora looks like from space. NASA.
longworth strawberries, painted by amanda almira newton, 1912
Our friend Peter Lowenstein in Mutare, Zimbabwe, posted last week's full Buck #Moon on the EarthSky community page. Thank you, Peter! See Peter's time-lapse here: buff.ly/yE7gID5 Have a photo of your own to share? Submit it to us here! buff.ly/SlEv9ZB
Day five of The Beatles Film Posters Volume 3 series. This time…Nowhere Man. Prints of all sixty three entries in this series are available here... stuffbymark.co.uk/shop
Teacher and pupils in Manchester, 1956, photo by Bert Hardy (Picture Post).
Happy weekend, everybody. 😸 Wordle 1,869 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Friday, July 31 Wordle 1,868 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟨⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
It's a blockbuster summer at the movies! Did you know movie theaters were some of the very first public spaces in America to be air conditioned? The promise of cool air became a way to attract audiences, as these pictures from the Library's collection illustrate.
Historic Detroit The old Greyhound Station and Cunningham’s Drug Store with the Statler Hotel in the background. Detroit, Michigan (1960) in Detroit, MI, United States.
Beautiful planting at city hall. I did my civic duty yesterday and paid my taxes and voted. This softened the blow. 🩷💕🩷 #PinkMon
In a couple of days I'll be launching Volume 3 of the Beatles Film Posters series. Here's a look back at the twenty posters that made up Volume 1...
Sunset Diner New Jersey 1947 📷 Ralph Morse for Life Magazine
It's a nice day for the farmer's market. Luna is ready for business. #Caturday #GrowYourOwn #BuyLocal
The Peacock's Complaint The peacock considered it wrong That he had not the nightingale's song; So to Juno he went, She replied, "Be content with thy having, and hold thy fool's tongue!" "Do not quarrel with nature." -Walter Crane
Spied on this little one through the fence yesterday. 🤎
A spectacular bibliophilic souvenir: book box opening to reveal opera glasses and a pillbox. Published in Vienna in the 1880s, the books themselves are by Enlightenment philosopher Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, author of the Laocoön. More in today’s short list: www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/pdfs/Jul2026...
![[DESIGN]. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Werke (book box). Vienna: Verlag von Sigmund Bensinger, 1880s. Box carved out of two hollowed octavo volumes, exterior dimensions 10.5 x 7.5 x 2.5 inches. Full chestnut morocco elaborately stamped in black and gilt with central gilt portrait of Lessing on upper board serving as box lid, secured by a pair of green silk ribbons. Interior finished with gilt title “Milano,” marbled paper trim, and color-printed pictorial onlay. Two purpose-built compartments housing a pair of mother-of-pearl opera glasses and a circular blue and white monogrammed floral pillbox. Lightest shelfwear to edges and spine panels.
Decorative box fashioned out of two converted books, opening to reveal a pair of opera glasses and a small porcelain pillbox. Originally published in Vienna, the hollowed books themselves are two handsomely bound volumes of the works of German Enlightenment philosopher Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, author of the Laocoön. The interior of the books is lined with a portrait of two herald angels, heightened in gilt, under the heading “Moderne Kunst.” Fitted compartments house a pair of opera glasses in iridescent brown mother-of-pearl and a floral box for pills or pastilles, monogrammed with a Gothic letter “G.” A spectacular bibliophilic souvenir.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ougq5fx4l5byg3iu6mqnadkk/bafkreied4t2pxn55u7fgzgiaj673cw6stuledqz2xa53zmctxtwnlfisw4)
![[DESIGN]. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Werke (book box). Vienna: Verlag von Sigmund Bensinger, 1880s.
Box carved out of two hollowed octavo volumes, exterior dimensions 10.5 x 7.5 x 2.5 inches. Full chestnut morocco elaborately stamped in black and gilt with central gilt portrait of Lessing on upper board serving as box lid, secured by a pair of green silk ribbons. Interior finished with gilt title “Milano,” marbled paper trim, and color-printed pictorial onlay. Two purpose-built compartments housing a pair of mother-of-pearl opera glasses and a circular blue and white monogrammed floral pillbox. Lightest shelfwear to edges and spine panels.
Decorative box fashioned out of two converted books, opening to reveal a pair of opera glasses and a small porcelain pillbox. Originally published in Vienna, the hollowed books themselves are two handsomely bound volumes of the works of German Enlightenment philosopher Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, author of the Laocoön. The interior of the books is lined with a portrait of two herald angels, heightened in gilt, under the heading “Moderne Kunst.” Fitted compartments house a pair of opera glasses in iridescent brown mother-of-pearl and a floral box for pills or pastilles, monogrammed with a Gothic letter “G.” A spectacular bibliophilic souvenir.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ougq5fx4l5byg3iu6mqnadkk/bafkreiagufirmrusg3c65zx5tfgsvp2ohn2kw6ym6m65oto56yorye6r3u)
![[DESIGN]. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Werke (book box). Vienna: Verlag von Sigmund Bensinger, 1880s.
Box carved out of two hollowed octavo volumes, exterior dimensions 10.5 x 7.5 x 2.5 inches. Full chestnut morocco elaborately stamped in black and gilt with central gilt portrait of Lessing on upper board serving as box lid, secured by a pair of green silk ribbons. Interior finished with gilt title “Milano,” marbled paper trim, and color-printed pictorial onlay. Two purpose-built compartments housing a pair of mother-of-pearl opera glasses and a circular blue and white monogrammed floral pillbox. Lightest shelfwear to edges and spine panels.
Decorative box fashioned out of two converted books, opening to reveal a pair of opera glasses and a small porcelain pillbox. Originally published in Vienna, the hollowed books themselves are two handsomely bound volumes of the works of German Enlightenment philosopher Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, author of the Laocoön. The interior of the books is lined with a portrait of two herald angels, heightened in gilt, under the heading “Moderne Kunst.” Fitted compartments house a pair of opera glasses in iridescent brown mother-of-pearl and a floral box for pills or pastilles, monogrammed with a Gothic letter “G.” A spectacular bibliophilic souvenir.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ougq5fx4l5byg3iu6mqnadkk/bafkreia3rpousaish2v7lluxd4z72bud64dyw6rsdqkzi6uhmb3b6qngnm)
July 21, 1926: Willie Harper hoists the trophy he won as champion of a national marbles tournament in Atlantic City, N.J., after returning to his home town of Bevier, Ky. He learned the sport playing with round lumps of coal near the mine where his father works.
