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I’ve arrived in Germany.

I was pleas­antly sur­prised to find the partner of the friend I am staying with to be a col­lec­tor and dealer in printed and drawn antiquities—everything from post­cards, news­pa­pers, books of course and orig­i­nal draw­ings. He has rep­utable col­lec­tion and much of it happens to live next door to my bedroom.

He recently acquired a large set of post­cards and letters dated early 1900–1960’s and today gave me the chance to peruse a German Lutheran bible com­pleted in 1736. There is a whole bag of for­got­ten inspi­ra­tion that can be drawn from these mate­ri­als. In par­tic­u­lar I’m finding them a won­der­ful source for things typo­graph­i­cal as the stuff is so old, having long passed “out of fashion”.

Typeset mate­ri­als aside, the hand­writ­ten post­cards and letters put my hand­writ­ing to shame. It’s made me realise how much we use a com­puter for any­thing written nowa­days. It has me con­tem­plat­ing start­ing a hand­writ­ten per­sonal journal to get back in the habit putting a pen in my hand and giving the key­board a break.

I’ve been snap­ping a lot of photos of the various pieces. I’m going to be start­ing a pho­to­blog shortly to give them a proper place of their own to live in; I’ll reserve noting them here when I run across some­thing par­tic­u­larly inter­est­ing.

The Lutheran bible will have a post for itself in the coming days. Oth­er­wise, stay turned for the pho­to­blog and have a great week!