6th Century Chinese Buddhist Stone Sculpture on Vintage 1910s-20s Postcard by The Meriden Gravure Company - ca 1910s-20s: The Lord Buddha, 2 Bodhisattva & 2 Disciples. On Display at the Freer Gallery of Art, Washinbgton D.C.

Meriden, CT: The Meriden Gravure Company. Pictorial View Book of the White Mountains The Year Around Vacationland. Published by The Meriden Gravure Company, Meriden, CT, 1938. This 6 x 9 inch, 60 page souvenir guide book is filled with black and white pictures . Remember the Old Man of the Mountain? Sure glad I saw him in person, but if you 's didn't there's one in the book along with pictures of Polar Caves, Rainbow Falls, Franconia Notch, The Indian Head, Avalanche Falls, Cherry Mountain, The Cog Railway, (fun!), Old Man of the River, Tuckerman Ravine and many many other places. Condition: Wear,dust soiling, creasing and chipping to lower corner front cover. Stapled binding is tight See Photos wb8

Bethany, Connecticut, circa [1941]., [1941].. Good. - Over 400 words typed on 11 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide onion skin paper, consisting of the minutes of the club's "Meeting held September 23 at Ed Rudge's Home in Bethany". The word "COPY" is stamped in red on the verso. Parker Allen, Harold Hugo, Carl Rollins and Ed Rudge were among those present as well as the club's 2 special guests, Bob Dothard and the Austrian-Impressionist artist & printmaker Hugo Steiner-Prag. The minutes mention distribution of the club's "Keepsake No. 50" which was printed by Gregg Anderson in Los Angeles in 1941. That keepsake's subject was "Collecting, especially books" written by Henry R. Wagner. Copies of the essay "Of Typecasting", which was published as the Columbiad Club's Keepsake No. 42, were presented to Bob Dothard and Dr. Steiner-Prag. A letter from Rollo G. Silver to Carl Rollins was read to the membership and mention is made that "Keepsake No. 51 will be due from Valenti Angelo" at the next meeting. Dr.… Read More

Little Rock, Arkansas; Dayton, Ohio; et al. 1931 through 1932. [1931]., [1931].. - A collection of 12 letters penned by E. Harold Hugo addressed to Parker Breese Allen, President of the Meriden Gravure Company, chronicling Hugo's sales trips on behalf of the printing company. Hugo's letters are preceded by a March 27th, 1931 Inter-Office letter from Parker Allen to E. Harold Hugo, initialed by Allen. At the bottom of this one-page typed letter is a 25 word annotation penned by Allen about the "Manning-Bowman" job. Hugo's subsequent letters are penned or penciled on 34 pages, the first 3 of which are on 9-1/4 inch high by 5-7/8 inch high hotel stationery, including that of the Southwest Hotels in Little Rock and The Dayton-Biltmore in Ohio. The very last letter is penned on 11 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide Lord Baltimore Hotel stationery. All of the other letters are written on The Meriden Gravure Co.'s 11 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide "Inter-Office Correspondence" stationery. The letters are as… Read More