Current Events & Trends | February 14, 2011 | Rebecca Rego Barry

Vintage Valentine

In honor of the day, a very appropriate vintage (vinegar) valentine for most of us. Found it on a blog devoted to "vintage goodness," along with a short article about collectible valentines. Enjoy!

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Americana

The Custer letter

Post-Washita General Custer Letter Sold at Auction for $550,000

Gettysburg Rail Pass and Lincoln’s Last Message to Congress to Auction

Mysterious George Washington Historical Document Surfaces for Presidents Day

Rare Books

The English Psalter sold at Gorringe's

An English Psalter and Photo of Sophia Loren: The Week in Rare Books

International Women’s Day: Five Rare Books for Collectors

TEFAF Maastricht 2026 Preview

Exhibitions

Unidentified photographer, Banking Office, State Street, circa 1902

History of Legal Aid Through Photos and Documents on Display

Rare Charles Dickens Clothing Goes on Show

Getty’s Egyptian Book of the Dead Exhibition Returns

Book People

The Nobel Way

New Travel Routes Project Celebrates Ireland's Literary Heritage

PY Rare Books' Viktoria Malik on AI, Old Believers Manuscripts, and the first ABC Printed in Russia

Entries Open for Tenth and Final Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize

Sponsored

Lieutenant Henry Robertson Bowers, At the South Pole.

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Visual Art

Framed handpainted Frank Frazetta Captive Princess 1973 paperback cover artwork

$1m Estimate for Frank Frazetta Cover Artwork for Edgar Rice Burroughs Novel

Unseen Doodles by Queen Elizabeth II to Auction

Original Joe Shuster Action Comics Cover Art and Frank Frazetta Artwork to Auction

Maps

WWII Operation Bigot map

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

Civil War Maps at Printed & Manuscript Americana Auction

Photographs

Two Ladies at the Automat, NYC, 1966 by Diane Arbus (estimate: $20,000-$90,000)

Photography Collection of Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner to Auction

Getty Acquires Photographer Irving Penn’s 'Cuzco' Work

Unseen Early Italian Aviation Photography to Auction

Book Arts

Antony Gormley's Tree for Waiting for Godot on an upland bog in the UNESCO Cuilcagh Lakelands Geopark Co. Fermanagh at the July 2019 Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival

Major New Samuel Beckett Biennale to Include First Ulster-Scots Translation of 'Waiting for Godot'

New Celebrations Mark 40 years of ‘Poems on the Underground’

Booker Prize Bindings 2025

Auctions

1615 warrant signed by King James I of England authorizing the release of Sir Walter Raleigh from the Tower of London

King James I, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington Lead Autographs Sale

Illustrated Edition of First Cookbook Written by an American Heads PBA Galleries Sale

£279,800 Death Bed Photo Tops Oscar Wilde Sale