Spinning Straw into Gold: Gilding Junk through Collecting
Abstract
I am a collector. I collect a lot of things, both significant and silly. I collect things related to the Birmingham printer John Baskerville; I collect antiquarian bibliography; I collect private library and book auction catalogues; I collect postal history and philatelic literature. In addition—and the reason I have been thought to have some expertise in collecting ephemera—I collect material related to the restaurants recommended from the 1930s to the 1950s by Duncan Hines.
Even though my Duncan Hines collection is the subject of this article, all of my collections involve some form of ephemera. While John Baskerville’s ...
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