this 1938 first edition of “Developing Sales Technique and Personality” by Dave Colcord does a pretty good job of selling itself
they have a darker stain starting about a third of the way down the handles
8 1/4" t including solid wooden base
In wooden crate with jointed corners and smart looking American Crayon Company paper label: Freart for Free Expression Work--a phrase which itself feels like a timely mandate
and an almost expressionistically carved head of hair
1840s Boxed German Album Amicorum with Many Lovelies good shepherd retablo this 1938 first edition ofI only recently learned about album amicorum (Latin for "book of friends") or liber amicorum, a European manuscript tradition, beginning in the 16ht century, where individualsoften students, scholars, or aristocratscollected signatures, poems, illustrations, and in this case embroideries, from friends, colleagues, and notable figures. A sort of precursor to the Victorian autograph album, but these were comprised of loose pieces, collected over time,