Posted By: Alex - Tue Jul 11, 2017 -
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Category: Inventions
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 11, 2017 -
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Category: Music, Obituaries
"This cricket has been mounted to represent a vendor of flowers and plants."
"These crickets represent a barber shaving a customer."
"Barbers bring their trade to the customer in China. They carry their 'shops' on long poles which they balance on one shoulder. Above is a Chinese cricket-barber carrying his tools along the street, offering to shave the head of any he meets."
"Bicycles fill the streets of Peiping. Hence the toy-man's set would be incomplete without a cricket astride a wheel."
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jul 10, 2017 -
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Category: Toys, 1930s
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 10, 2017 -
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Category: Foreign Customs, 1930s, Africa, Middle East
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jul 09, 2017 -
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Category: Clubs, Fraternities and Other Self-selecting Organizations, Hobbies and DIY, Travel, Collectors
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 09, 2017 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Death, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, 1950s, Australia, North America
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jul 08, 2017 -
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Category: Advertising
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 08, 2017 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, 1960s
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Posted By: Alex - Fri Jul 07, 2017 -
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Category: World Records
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 07, 2017 -
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Category: Cult Figures and Artifacts, Sexuality, Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal, Australia, Twentieth Century
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