Comments on: Return of the Love Triangle

By: Mina

Mina — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:37:21 +0000

I’m tempted to buy them… But still making up my mind, so I won’t be mad if someone grabs ‘em first…

By: Maurine Ward

Maurine Ward — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:50:57 +0000

This is so fun. MMM,I don’t understand the clown suit, but I’m sure all of Ninnies would love to see you in your suit. We could order a special occasion just so you would have an excuse! HaHa

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:23:57 +0000

MMM, despite the cowboy on your website, I shall picture you from now on in your clown suit.

CurtA, you never fail to amaze me with your experience and the wide range of places you have lived and things you have done!

Clark, it doesn’t come through in the scans, but those fan-shaped cards are printed in sparkly metallic ink. They’re really quite pretty in the flesh — er, pasteboard — with the silver and gold and bronze sheen. I’m pretty sure they are as fresh today as they were in the 1880s, and that they weren’t originally colored like these. It’s quite a different print style (no indication on those fans as to who printed them, though).

Anybody gonna bid on the eBay set? Not me — but speak up if you are so no other ninny bids against you.

By: Clark

Clark — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:12:47 +0000

The costumes remind me of the John Tenniel illustrations of Tweedledum, done in approximately the same time period. I suspect the trading cards were originally done in the same bright colors, but have faded. In any case, an odd story. I can't see this series revived anytime soon as a "collect-all-four" set of cards in my morning cereal box.

By: CurtA

CurtA — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:35:45 +0000

Very interesting to say the least. A bit of a tangential comment, but I spent over two years of my work life very near the engraving shop’s “gravesite”. The brothers K would have been surrounded by shoemakers. When we moved on site to build the Mint in 1966, the Redevelopment Authority had just finished clearing the site and digging the basement. The two square block, thirty foot deep excavation was littered with trash, much of it old shoeleather and rubber soles as the area was taken up by shoeshops that made shoes to order. The NW corner of 4th and Arch, if my memory serves, became the loading dock where the trucks backed up to being the coils of coining strip which woulod soon produce those sandwich quarters and dimes we first saw inn the sixties to replace the 90% silver coins that were too expensive to produce.

By: MMM

MMM — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:21:56 +0000

I only have one wife, but I have that exact same outfit. (For special occasions)