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Big top treasures: two centuries of the circus

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Collecting circus memorabilia allows the child in everyone to relieve dreams of running away with the circus. Among circus collectibles are books about the circus, circus costumes, circus movies and related movie memorabilia and posters with attractive color printing.

Author: Kirsch, Francine
Publisher: Lightner Publishing Corporation
Publication Name: Antiques & Collecting Magazine
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 1084-0818
Year: 1999
Methods, Circuses, Collectors and collecting, Collectors (Persons), Circus

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The collectibles of home sewing

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Home sewing offers wide range of collectibles from patterns, catalogs and periodicals to tape measures, scissors, needles and buttons. Ebenezer Butterick, Madame Demorest and James McCall are few of those publishers who introduced these patterns in 19th century.

Author: Kirsch, Francine
Publisher: Lightner Publishing Corporation
Publication Name: Antiques & Collecting Magazine
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 1084-0818
Year: 1997
History, Sewing

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The well-dressed kewpie

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Kewpies were used as holiday adornments, party decors, wedding-cake tops, centerpieces for tables and lamps in the early 1900s. Today, part of the fun of collecting these neuter novelty dolls is learning how to recreate their clothes from crepe paper or cloth.

Author: Kirsch, Francine
Publisher: Lightner Publishing Corporation
Publication Name: Antiques & Collecting Magazine
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 1084-0818
Year: 1996
Miniature dolls

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