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Small moments in history captured and shared via transcribed love letters, View-Master reels & other ephemera.
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Montyne: The Bigger than Life Artist, Sculptor and Sideshow Performer (opens the original)
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I’m traveling this week, so I thought I’d pull up this post that I first sent to subscribers way back in 2022! It was one of my first in-depth posts with details you won’t find anywhere else online, and two very cool things (to me) came from it: An actor I love, Michael McKean, posted a link to it with kind comments and, a few weeks after it posted, I got a very fascinating email from Montyne’s son, thanking me for the post!On Instagram, people ask me about the artists behind View-Master scenes
A Love Letter to New York (opens the original)
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Illustrating the Nations of the World (opens the original)
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You voted a couple of weeks back and today I am responding to the will of the voters! What a novel concept! Happy Labor Day weekend, by the way. I’ve been covering the Nations of the World for a few weeks now (probably too many), but this final post is a sweet one to me. Not many people have the U.S.-issued Nations of the World folders and library set so not that many collectors have seen the illustrations inside each folder. <div class="preambl
The Nations of the World from Belgium’s Point of View (opens the original)
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We’ve been talking about the fun (and wide-ranging) Nations of the World View-Master packets. You can catch up on previous posts here: This week, we’re talking about the Nations of the World series released from View-Master’s Belgium factory. These 32 packets feature a different line-up and packaging style entirely. There is also a library to keep all the packets it that is very different from the bubble gum colors of the U.S. library. Writing this post was a little tricky for me because I do no
Nations of the World, Outside the Box (opens the original)
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We’ve been talking about the Nations of the World for the past two weeks, and I’m going to draw this out a little further by explaining that there are complications to this aspect of collecting View-Master reels (as there always are in every aspect of this hobby). <source type="image
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