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Sales & Music At The Fargo Flea Market!
Sales & Music At The Fargo Flea Market!
It’s time for the annual June flea market at Fargo Antiques & Repurposed Market! That means, along with all the dealers, we will be having sales inside. Our YES booths,#25-27, will be 20% off. And the LunaTique Art Gallery, Occult, & Oddities space, code ART in booth #55, will be 10% off. We also will have a booth outside in the parking lot too – right next to the live musical entertainment! Yes,…
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Hellooooo gamer & fantasy fans!
Remember any of these??
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Falling In Mush Love
Falling In Mush Love
Part of my job as an antiques dealer (or vintage seller, if you prefer) is to properly clean, research, and identify reclaimed and discovered items in order to best present these old things to potential buyers. Continually making discoveries, uncovering new-to-me stories is one of my favorite parts of this gig. But sometimes, as I’ve recently noted on Twitter, I go down rabbit holes and end up…
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Remains on my reading list
...When will I make the time
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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Stetson was first published in 1892 in the New England Magazine. Influenced by her own personal experience under the treatment of Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell, Stetson's short story tells of a young married woman suffering from a "temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency," as diagnosed by her husband. The story remains an important commentary on mental health, gaslighting, and female oppression under the patriarchy.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1899.
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Worlds Collide 1977
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Dolly Parton and Mick Jagger backstage at her performance at The Bottom Line, New York, May 14, 1977, by Allan Tannenbaum
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I guess this was scary in the 50s...?
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Crazy costumes: A man getting arrested for dressing up as an alien to scare people (circa 1950).
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Antique Military Parade Photo Taken From High Perch WWI? Note all the cool signs and flags on the street sides - hotel, jewelry, Young & Co Tailors, Boston Teeth...
Photo on board; piece measures 8 x 10 inches.
SOLD but I had to show it off!
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Momma’s got a squeaze-box...
Bad-ass accordion player
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Lili Muráti in Az éjszaka lánya
Hungarian postcard. Edition Tempo, Budapest, 1942. Lili Muráti in Az éjszaka lánya (The Daughter of the Night, Frigyes Bán, Palatinus Filmen 1943). Music by Karoly De Fries, lyrics by Kalman Kovach. The film deals with a young woman who is made to forget her past, the men, and that she was 'The Girl of the Night'.
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Scrapbook Filled With Newspaper & Magazine Accounts of Wallace "Wally" Simpson & The Royals A real stunner!
Scrapbook measures 14 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches; 52 pages (& inside covers) all but 2 filled. 
BIN: $99 + $13.50 contus shipping (Otherwise from 56560) I always include insurance & tracking. I am happy to combine items for shipping. US, PayPal only. Thank you!
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Reminder ;)
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Dozens of fresh items have arrived in our vintage shop on Etsy - clicking this link gives you 15% off anything & everything we’ve got listed!
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Dukes sold, but the others are still available!
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Vintage & retro View-Master reels
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Americana Automobilia Vintage Photograph Featuring A Mercury Grill
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Vintage Single Swap Playing Cards Jokers - Hunting Theme
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Art & history
From Sailor to Samurai
In Japan, William Adams became known as Miura Anjin, the pilot of the Miura, after the bequest he received in recognition of his services to his adopted country. He was an English navigator. Adams first served under Francis Drake and was later recruited by the Dutch for their trading voyages to the East Indies. In 1600, after heavy storms, the Liefde, a dutch merchantman, was the only one of five ships to make it to the Japanese coast. Hunger and disease had decimated the crew, and only 24 of 110 men were left.
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From left to right, Blijde Boodschap (Good Tiding), Trouw (Loyalty), Geloof (Faith), Liefde (Love) (William Adams’s ship) and Hoope (Hope). 17th century engraving. On these ships, only the Liefde managed to arrive in Japan, where it was sent by Tokugawa Ieyasu to Edo. Rotten and beyond repair, the ship foundered during the journey. (x)
The completely exhausted sailors were not welcomed with open arms, however, because the Catholic Portuguese and Spanish, already established in Japan, were enemies of the Protestant Dutch and English.  Initially thought to be pirates, they were seized and imprisoned. Adams was almost executed, but as the fittest of the prisoners, he was taken to Osaka for interrogation. A powerful feudal lord named Tokugawa Ieyasu, who would later become shogun, took a liking to him and eventually made him a diplomatic and trade advisor and granted him great privileges. But not entirely altruistically. After a battle with his last rivals, the now shogun wanted to call a European ship his own and the Adams built it for him. First he built a small copy of a Japanese one, and now that the Liefde was completely broken apart after she reached Edo, he should simply build it anew.
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Portrait of William Adams from Perry Expedition - Black Ship Scroll, 1856  (x) The Black Ship Scroll is a 30-foot long scroll (emaki) painted in Shimoda, one of two treaty ports opened in 1854 as a result of Commodore Matthew Perry’s mission to long-secluded Japan. Several versions of this lively and often humorous scroll were circulated to satisfy curiosity about the foreigners.
Adams, who actually had a wife and children in England, remarried and started a family with his new wife. But he was never to leave Japan again. The Portuguese and Spaniard, who had been trying to proselytise Japan for some time, watched this good relationship with suspicion and had to watch idly as Adams managed to persuade the shogun to open a trading post for the East India company, which began trading in 1611.
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William Adams: The first Englishman in Japan (Miura Anjin), drawn 1866 (x)
He did similar for the Netherlands and became personally involved in the Japanese Red Seal trad,  in which merchant sailing vessels contucted business with Southeast Asian ports under the authority of a red seal permit issued by the Shogun. Adams managed to become a samurai, but the time of the Europeans seemed to be threatened. The Portuguese and the Spanish were expelled from the country and Christianity was punished. Only the British and the Dutch were spared. It was probably because Adams informed the Shogun about the true plans of the Spanish and Portuguese, who were planning to turn Japan into a colony.
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A Red Seal Ship, by unknown artist, 17th century (x)
Not much is known about the navigator’s fate. In 1620, Adams died in Japan at the age of 56, probably of malaria. In his will, he left his fortune to his wife in England, his Japanese family and some friends in the English trading post. 
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Simple beauty
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An illustration of color heritability in sweet peas from Reginald Punnett’s 1911 book Mendelism.
Full text available here.
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Lovely
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DaDa photo album 
A few pages from an old photo album scrapbook that just sold.
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