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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Mr and Mrs Cook Book

    22 March 2016

    Last year Shelf Appeal was doing some research on interwar cookbooks and leaflets. It’s a bit of a wheeze for...

  • The stationer’s shop

    31 May 2015

    Illustrations of shops and shopping pull me in like a magnet. Historical ones. New ones. I like them in a...

  • Casually Italian

    14 April 2014

    Shelf Appeal doesn’t knit much but likes lots of knitting-associated bits and pieces. This pattern has long been hanging around...

  • Attishu

    30 November 2013

    Such a prosaic item a handkerchief. Somewhat out of fashion now. There are some very lovely vintage handkerchief designs. There...

  • Kayser boys

    18 May 2013

    The marketing of women’s stockings has taken interesting turns and twists (or runs and ladders) over the years. The sexual...

  • Window shopping

    7 February 2013

    Ladybird books are lovely things. They pull gently at childhood memories if you are old enough to remember reading them....

  • Summer’s wane

    23 September 2012

    It’s always nice to find survivors. A small and attractive one here. This might have been for selling sweeties in,...

  • Sheep’s clothing

    6 February 2012

    I don’t know about you, but my feet are cold. I dally between my Icelandic wool slippers, layering up the...

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