“One, two, three - the dust is out!”
Advertising poster for children’s vacuum cleaner by Norma, Estonia (1968).
This blog is about old postcards, book illustration, history and culture of Russia and the Soviet Union. I'm a long time collector, and this blog is 10 years old.
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Vintage poster (1973)
“To collectors and lovers of pins!
We invite you to Soyuzpechat shops and kiosks! Here you can always buy pins of various themes and shapes. You will be offered badges from the Leniniana* series, with coats of arms of cities, portraits of great people, images of architectural ensembles and monuments, and many, many others.”
*Leniniana = anything to do with Vladimir Lenin
“We don’t have more than one Friday at a time,” she said.
“What a squalor!” the Black Queen snorted. “We have six, even seven Fridays a week!”
“Alice Through the Looking-Glass” (USSR, 1982)
“Breakfast”, photo by Valery Shlychkov (1978)
Vintage stamps from the USSR featuring cartoons (The Humpbacked Horse, Winnie the Pooh, Adventures of Ghena the Crocodile and Cheburashka, Nu Pogodi, Hedgehog in the Fog). 1988.
The stamps are CTO (cancelled to order).
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