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  • Braemar number

    25 September 2017

    Shelf Appeal has accumulated a few pieces of ephemera advertising the Braemar wool clothing label. They used fashion illustration very...

  • Coffee for enjoyment

    13 September 2017

    Coffee, there is nothing better. But, well, perhaps a nice bit of coffee ephemera comes close. This promotional leaflet Coffee...

  • Invalid Delicacies

    30 August 2017

    Invalid is a word one seldom hears these days. It’s certainly not a word found on a greeting card in...

  • Moderna Mytholmroyd

    9 July 2017

    The industrial landscape of West Yorkshire, much of it to do with 19th and 20th century textile history, is still...

  • Paris

    10 May 2017

    Paris is Shelf Appeal’s favorite city. Not simply because they do the best fashion and toy exhibitions there. Not only...

  • Wolsey weekending

    5 March 2017

    Shelf Appeal is a fan of Wolsey advertising from the first half of the 20th century. It came in two...

  • Cranks introduction

    8 February 2017

    Shelf Appeal is vegetarian and has been in London just long enough to remember the Cranks café/restaurants. There is always...

  • January sale

    29 December 2016

    The department store Jones & Higgins of Peckham, London closed in 1980 and I missed visiting it. Established in Rye...

  • Sunny delight

    4 September 2016

    Shelf Appeal is in danger of becoming the Ashley Havinden blog. Havinden’s name is all too frequently dotted around these...

  • Dress making

    20 July 2016

    Shelf Appeal often has dressmaking on the mind. Despite not sewing as much as I used to, I still love...

  • Museum of Natural History

    28 June 2016

      Shelf Appeal has a soft spot for illustrations of museums. Museum is my key word. I like old illustrations...

  • Before the wild things

    5 June 2016

    Shelf Appeal likes an exhibition catalogue. Or two. Particularly those little catalogues it seems aren’t viable to produce much any...

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