Bookmars and advertizing
It starts slowly ... One finds an interesting paper in an old book and one decides to keep it. Then gradually little bits of paper or postcards, or old photos accumulate. After some years, a lot of those treasures has been collected, but still, they are not classified. And one is left with a decicion to make: bring order in all those papers or throw them away. That is the destiny of many collectors and that's what happened to my parents. As collectors and then as antiquarians, they found a lot of things. But dad died in 1995. It's only in 2011, after many years of hesitation, that my mother, now aged 86, finally decided to keep everything and put order in her collection of "advertisings". Here are some pictures that show you the beginning of this adventure wich is far from over.
Bookmars and advertizing
It starts slowly ... One finds an interesting paper in an old book and one decides to keep it. Then gradually little bits of paper or postcards, or old photos accumulate. After some years, a lot of those treasures has been collected, but still, they are not classified. And one is left with a decicion to make: bring order in all those papers or throw them away. That is the destiny of many collectors and that's what happened to my parents. As collectors and then as antiquarians, they found a lot of things. But dad died in 1995. It's only in 2011, after many years of hesitation, that my mother, now aged 86, finally decided to keep everything and put order in her collection of "advertisings". Here are some pictures that show you the beginning of this adventure wich is far from over.