http://assemblagist.org :: Valerie MacEwan :: Revise & Remake :: Fluxus is my chisel. :: Wed, 23 May 2012 15:45:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://assemblagist.org/2009/04/matchbook-covers-as-art/ http://assemblagist.org/2009/04/matchbook-covers-as-art/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:11:57 +0000 VMac http://assemblagist.org/?p=212 The last Woodside Antiques auction we attended must have been in, what... January? That's when we acquired the Victorian scrapbook and the sewing basket filled with dozens of spools of vintage thread. And the Victorian handmade lace, the 1920s dresses... great bunches of "stuff" at some very low prices. Yes, I'm talking to myself. Didn't I end up with a huge box filled with matchbooks? It was the time I bid without knowing I'd done so? Yeah, it's all coming back to me now. Well, seems the $5.00 purchase price may not have been so ignorant after all. Turns out, matchbooks are collectible. Who knew? You did, right? Why didn't you tell me? ... read more

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