Dig This Treasure!

As promised, here’s part two of my report on what we found at the Letterpress sale. Early on when we were there, Adam noticed a really large flat file that people were going through. I could see that there was some cool stuff in it. I hate when that happens because then I get really impatient and annoyed with the person looking at the items, which is really fair and not greedy at all of me. It was about 95 degrees on this day, and there was no A/C in the house. The second floor was killer, so after about 15 minutes up there (where all the cool books were), I ventured back downstairs and the flat file was free. Here are some of the cool things I found inside: 

That newspaper says 1914! Crazy, huh? 

Those are just some of the posters we came out of the sale with… I love the one about souls dwelling. Such cool finds. 

I also found a bunch of super cool books, as mentioned in the previous post. Here are some pictures of the coolest of those: 

These are a bunch of Hobby Printers’ Scrapbooks from the 1960s. I’ve already sold them on eBay, but they were really cool to look at and contained things like this: 

What I realized is that these are basically vintage zines!

Here are some pictures from inside some of the other cool books I found: 

I haven’t tried selling any of these specimen books or chapbooks yet, but I’ll keep y'all posted! But I feel like someone out there might be into them… I just have a feeling.

This is a great example of finding something that I really feel like I could connect with the right person. I get so excited when this happens–it’s different than finding something that you just know is simply valuable. For example, I had no idea whether anyone would bid on those hobby printer scrapbooks, but I got SO excited when someone did because to bid on something like that, you’ve gotta be a superfan and unless a crazy person like me tries to sell it, you’ll never find it.

Making a few bucks is nice but the real joy is discovering that you’ve connected a person with a treasure that they never thought they’d find. That sounds hokey but it’s true. 

-Sarah