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Ephemera and Things Found In Old Books (page 1/2)

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Sometimes you open a book and find things inside, like an old calling card, or a calculation written on a scrap of envelope. Or a pressed flower from two hundred years ago. I’ve saved these things and have started to scan them.

Title: Ephemera and Things Found In Old Books

Author: Various

Date: 1806

Total items: 7

Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.

Some sample images

[picture: Harwood 1: scrap of paper]

Harwood 1: scrap of paper

A small scrap of paper from Harwood’s 1801 “Grecian Antiquities”—I suspect it’s from the same person who left part of an envelope in the book, and dates from the early 1800s. [...]s, and half a pence?) and that 312 Galleons are £11/0/3. [more...] [$]

[picture: Harwood 5: pressed flower]

Harwood 5: pressed flower

I found a flower between two pages of my copy of Harwood’s 1801 “Grecian Antiquities”. [$]

[picture: Harwood 4: back of scrap of envelo;e.]

Harwood 4: back of scrap of envelo;e.

The other side of the scrap of a letter or envelope that I found tucked inside my copy of Harwood’s 1801 “Grecian Antiquities”—there is a list of books written on it, which I tried to transcribe here. The books all seem to have been published before 1806, consistent with my readong of the postmark or stamp mark on the other side. [more...] [$]

[picture: Harwood 2: scarp of paper (other side)]

Harwood 2: scarp of paper (other side)

The other side of a small scrap of paper I found in my copy of Harwood’s 1801 “Grecian Antiquities” with some writing on it which I cannot read. [more...] [$]

[picture: Harwood 6: pressed flower from the other side]

Harwood 6: pressed flower from the other side

I found a flower between two pages of my copy of Harwood’s 1801 “Grecian Antiquities”. [$]


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calligraphy colour contracts copperplate ephemera flowers handwriting mathematics paper postmarks pressed flowers script writing

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Sometimes you open a book and find things inside, like an old calling card, or a calculation written on a scrap of envelope. Or a pressed flower from two hundred years ago. I’ve saved these things and have started to scan them.


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