Cock a doodle doo
A theme that repeats itself throughout my blog is shop-related ephemera. I have studied shop display history and always been...
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May we help you?
Shelf Appeal likes the outsides of shops. And the insides. This photographic postcard is one of a very few images...
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The story of a carrot
Shelf Appeal is far too sniffy to take part in hashtag nonsense on social media. Except. This one was too...
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Shopping in London
Shopping in London isn’t what it was, even what it was in 2000, when Shelf Appeal moved down. There are...
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They stay up
Socks are famously a Christmas present for men. Along with, or instead of, a Boots gift box of Old Spice...
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Party outings
The train angst season is upon us. Cancellations, missing tea trolley services, overcrowded carriages, missing reservations, hassled travellers, luggage racks...
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China patterns
Shelf Appeal likes a work of scholarly specificity and also likes wallpaper. Having written a chapter for the book The...
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Post a smile
The allure of a smiling face in a graphic (or on a mug, or pretty much anywhere) never gets tired...
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Braemar number
Shelf Appeal has accumulated a few pieces of ephemera advertising the Braemar wool clothing label. They used fashion illustration very...
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Coffee for enjoyment
Coffee, there is nothing better. But, well, perhaps a nice bit of coffee ephemera comes close. This promotional leaflet Coffee...
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Invalid Delicacies
Invalid is a word one seldom hears these days. It’s certainly not a word found on a greeting card in...
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Moderna Mytholmroyd
The industrial landscape of West Yorkshire, much of it to do with 19th and 20th century textile history, is still...