Tales From an Antique Typewriter Collector

Columbia 2 with link follw to the Martin Howard Collection

My First Great Antique Typewriter Find Guest Column By Martin Howard I have been a collector of antique typewriters for twenty years now and have acquired many beautiful and historically important typewriters but my first real treasure will always be one of my favorites, the Columbia. COLUMBIA 2 – 1885 Columbia Typewriter Co. of New [...]

Josephine Baker Antique Collectibles

Revue Nègre  josephine baker sold at auction with link follow

The Incomparable Josephine Baker (Sold by Poster Auctions International, Inc for $322,000.00 in November of 2007) This poster by PAUL COLIN (1892-1986) for the Revue Nègre, is claimed by him, and others, to be the debut poster for Josephine Baker’s entree into the world of Paris nightlife and theater. It is a hand signed gouache [...]