Bookplate Exchanges

In last week's blog posting about keeping up with bookplate inflation I neglected to include the following:

Bookplate Exchanges

Getting together with other collectors and exchanging duplicates is, from my perspective one of the most enjoyable aspects of this peculiar hobby.
Skype also enables you to conduct these exchanges with collectors from all over the world.
If you wish to exchange duplicates with other collectors please send me a brief list of the artists, themes,countries time periods etc. that interest you. If you have a Skype number send that also.
This is important.I plan to publish a list of everyone who responds on a future blog posting.
If you do not want your contact information shown on the blog posting be sure to tell me.
Send your brief exchange want list to     Bookplatemaven@hotmail.com

Earlier this week fellow collector  Yosef  Halper visited me.

http://www.halpersbooks.com/

Since Yosef is also a bookseller in Israel he finds  all sorts of interesting  ephemeral items to tempt me.
Here are three examples:

http://www.rememberingscotlandatwar.org.uk/Accessible/Exhibition/86/So-I-joined-the-Black-Watch-Volunteers-and-conscription

Wounded man’s kit label

Description

A label similar to this was tied to George Arnott’s kit, when he was admitted to hospital. OHMS stands for On His Majesty’s Service. It had a reference number: AFW 3042. The wounded man’s Army number, rank, name and unit were to be written in. If the kit belonged to a soldier missing or a Prisoner of War, then WOUNDED MANS KIT was to be scored out and a cross was to be inserted under M or PW.

Source

Date: 1945

Contributor: George Arnott

Location: Germany

Original Source: Courtesy of George Arnott private collection

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Pen and ink drawing on a blank postcard

Other than Wie es geht ? I do not know what it says so a translation would be appreciated.

6/21/2014 Fellow Collector Wally Jansen sent this translation:

Hi Lew,

I'm not truly fluent in German but I'll take a stab at the text on that card:

(The bird in the tree is an owl.)

Whoo, whoo,
So hoot
the owls.
Little person you,
with the wolves
you must hoot (or howl).
And he howls: woo woo.
And the wolf speaks: I will not gobble you up.
And that is a true story.

Of course the German words have a cadence and rhyme that make it more appealing.  The word used for hoot and howl appear to be the same in German.

It seems a bit mysterious and I have a feeling that it may be related to some old fable.
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Dear Lewis,
just had a look to your recent blog and found the handwritten card and
the translation by collector Wally Jansen.
Maybe it is worth to add that the German "mit den Woelfen heulen" ("to
howl with the wolves")
has a double meaning. It also means: "When in Rome, do as the Romans do".
This can be used as a friendly advice or even as a veiled threat...
There might be a language behind the language, I presume.
Kind Regards
Michael Kunze

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Printed card 4 inches wide by 5 1/2 inches high

I know this was published in 1943 and probably is asking for money

 .Your help in translating would be appreciated.

Here are some duplicates I got from Yosef which are currently available for possible exchange:

1. 1. • 
2. Hallie Flanagan

   Theatrical producer
3. Hallie Flanagan was an American theatrical producer and director, playwright, and author, best known as director of the Federal Theatre Project, a part of the Works Progress Administration. Wikipedia
5. Born: August 27, 1890, Redfield, SD
6. Died: July 23, 1969, Old Tappan, NJ
7. Books: Arena, Shifting Scenes of the Modern European Theatre
8. Education: Radcliffe College (1924), Grinnell College, Harvard University
9. Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada
10. Plays: Can You Hear Their Voices?

Carl Van Vechten
Photographic self-portrait by Carl Van Vechten, taken in 1934
Born	Carl Van Vechten June 17, 1880 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S.
Died	December 21, 1964 (aged 84) New York City, New York, U.S.
Education	Washington High School
Alma mater	University of Chicago
Spouse(s)	Anna Snyder (?–1912), Fania Marinoff (m. 1914–64)

Dubose and Dorothy Heyward-Wrote Porgy and Bess

                                      http://americanrepertorytheater.org/node/6171

 The paper cut illustration on the bookplate was done by Sarah E. Cowan

Dorothy and Dubose Heyward

Mystery Bookplate- 

Does anyone out there know who designed this bookplate ?

Bookplatemaven@hotmail.com

That's all for today. See you next week

Theatrical Bookplates Act Four ,Scene One

David Garrick's plate was engraved by John wood.

Click on Images to EnlargeJohn Drinkwater's leather bookplate was designed by his cousin G.C. Drinkwater


This is scene one because I have a good many theatrical plates from the U.K. and not enough time this morning to scan them all . On Wednesday, I will add scene two when I return from seeing Santa Claus at Macy's in New York City. Little Harrison is starting to question Santa's credentials; However, my daughter Moira is expecting in May so next year there will still be at least one true believer .

Gertrude Lawrence had two bookplates .One that was made for her in the 1920's or 30's as shown below. The artist is unknown to me.The second bookplate was used after her marriage to Richard S. Aldrich.

Received the following from fellow collector Bob Weinberg:

12/14/09

Dear Lew--After I graduated from Colorado Univ. in the summer of 1948, and having lots of time left on the GI Bill, I decided to go to the Sorbonne in Paris. On the SS Mauritania, I met Gertrude Lawrence and danced with her in the Salon Class ballroom. I was traveling steerage but met her through an English woman I met on board.One of the most magical moments of my life-- B

Sir Henry Irving's plate was designed by Sir Bernard Partridge.
Sir John Gielgud had two bookplates. This one was used around 1938 .The second one was used later in his life and is heraldic. I do not have a copy and would like to purchase one.

The artist's initials for Henry Urwick's plate are GHH .

Several weeks ago Tom Boss www.bossbooks.com

had a copy of William Charles Macready's plate for sale

Intermission. See you on Wednesday.