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EcommerceBytes-Update, Number 39 - June 02, 2001 - ISSN 1528-6703
Collector's Corner
1) Hotel Labels
By Ina Steiner
Joao-Manuel Mimoso has created a Web site devoted to hotel labels. People in the 1800s and early 1900s would apply hotel labels to their luggage as souvenirs chronicling their travels. The site has some beautiful examples of these small works of art along with their history.
The author, Joao-Manuel Mimoso, is a mechanical engineer and collector who has traveled extensively searching for old luggage labels and gathering information on these little-studied but highly interesting pieces of graphic design. He has written a book on the topic of hotel labels soon to be published.
~http://pagina.netc.pt/~nd24322a/index.html
2) Hobo Nickels
By Ina Steiner
A colleague mentioned that he has a friend who collects Hobo Nickels. I had never heard of Hobo Nickels, so I went online to find out more. http://www.hobonickel.net/thestory.htm tells the story of how hobos carved drawings on nickels and bartered with them during the Great Depression. They are now considered folk art pieces. Here are some more links: http://localsonly.wilmington.net/mwallace/exonumia/hobo.html, http://www.hobonickels.org.
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