Arte y pico award

premio.jpg Thanks to Ms Bluewyvern at Blue Tea for honouring { feuilleton } with the Arte y pico award, the details of which are as follows:

1. You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also contributes to the blogging community, no matter what language.
2. Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his/her blog to be visited by everyone.
3. Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her/him the award itself.
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There’s a number of excellent blogs I visit more or less daily but the following five are the ones I find are always surprising me with things I haven’t seen before or things I never expected to see. So in alphabetical order we have:

• Mariana at Beautiful Century

• Thombeau at Fabulon

• Mr Door Tree at Golden Age Comic Book Stories

• Jahsonic at Jahsonic

• Pam at Phantasmaphile

All places worthy of your sustained attention.

Children’s toys for Christmas, 1896

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An ad from The Queen magazine, November 28th, 1896, showing what lucky children in London and elsewhere might expect to receive for Christmas. (Close-ups follow below.) Those children would have needed wealthy parents since many of these toys cost half a week’s pay or more for the average worker. Scanned from Victorian Advertisements (1968) by Leonard de Vries.

A note about the prices: 10/6 means “ten and six” or 10 shillings (10s) and sixpence (6d). Before decimalisation in 1971 there were 12 pence to the shilling and 20 shillings to the pound. 1 shilling is the equivalent of 5 pence in today’s currency.

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