Vintage documents

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I'm plucking out cards from cancelled sales for typing use. This is the back of a card like the one below. The story of one customer and his watch. Each drawer held hundreds, if not thousands, of customer records. The earliest were from the 1920s and the latest from the 1960s. The entries from the '50s on weren't as interesting since they added small appliance repairs. I have a certain nerdy fascination with forgotten history gleaned from esoterica. Out of all the antiquities I looked at…

Here are three shabby and aged printable vintage receipts: The first is a receipt on behalf of Barton & Looker, wholesale and retail dealers in hardware, wooden and willow ware, paints and oil, glass, paper and paper bags, etc. The receipt was made out to Mrs. Emily N. Smith on June 24, 1896. The items...Read More

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Bliss! An enormous stack of antique documents from Paris and its environs....mostly 1700s....some 1800s....some 1600s....incredible wax seals....hand drawn maps....little attachments stitched on with fine thread....steel pins holding pages together....the most heavenly aroma, that mixture of cedar and tobacco that makes me swoon every time....beautiful watermarks....parchment so fine it is transparent....ragged edges....creases and stains....the foxiest foxing.... More to share with you…