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The Beauty of Selling

Spors Book of Bargains, 1939: They didn’t call it the Great Depression for nothing. You leaf through a catalog like this one and you can feel the hunger and the desperation that the Spors Company promised to address… Continue reading The Beauty of Selling


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Delivers a stunning blow without crushing or fracturing the skull

W.S. Darley Police Equipment catalog, 1961: The Darley catalog enthusiastically, even lovingly, described the different clubs, handcuffs, straight jackets, body bags, lie detectors, guns, badges, and other law enforcement tools. Zoom in to read the copy, and we’ll come back to other pages in the future… Continue reading Delivers a stunning blow without crushing or fracturing the skull


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Catalog of Secrets

For our next trick, the Heaney Magic Company, 1924. Have no illusions – even Magicians consulted catalogs in the 20th century. Here the audience members’ three chosen cards are impaled at sword-point. Continue reading Catalog of Secrets