Here’s my yesterday’s pin haul! 🤩
This blog is about old postcards, book illustration and all kinds of paper whimsy from the Soviet Union. I'm a long time collector, and this blog is 7 years old. I have an etsy shop for cards, books, pins and vintage finds from Russia.
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Here’s a recap of my day! I got a bunch of awesome pins and a bag of books, visited the Soviet toy museum (nothing new there but it’s always fun to visit) and found an old phonebooth in a alley. It was sunny and warm, perfect weather for a daytrip. The last picture shows my favourite used book shop, it’s tiny and it’s utterly impossible to find anything there. But somehow, I always leave with a bag full of treasures. ❤
Just listed a bunch of new space-themed pins!
“Moscow in the past and in the present day”, history books from 1909-1912.
Cheburashka postcard by V. Bankovsky (1987)
Buy:
Soviet enamel pin featuring cosmonauts Andriyan Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich
Buy in my shop:
Maly Kamenny Bridge in Moscow. The sign on top of the building reads, “Ice cream. Made of sugar, milk, cream, cocoa, chocolate, fruit, berries, nuts.”
Photo by I. Avdeyev (1964)
Pages from “My First ABC Book”, published in St Petersburg (1900s)
And this is my book haul. I found a copy of the Soviet Cartoon Artists book but with the original dust cover which unfolds into a whole poster!! (And I realized just now that I never even listed this book which I brought from St Peters. Oh dear.) Anyway, I found an Ivan Bilibin album in great condition!! And the huge tome in the last picture is an awesome space-themed book from 1960 with lots of photos. I’m debating keeping it for myself.