In honor of my love for all things old, my Valentine and I ended our day of fun at the Twilight Rummage Sale (Jumble Sale if you are in the UK)  at Hawthorne’s Eagles Lodge. We stepped back in time to a place when toasters were treasures, comics were king, and flowers were power.

I discovered many items of tangible retro goodness, including these amazing papers (highly scan-able) and tear-outs from an old atlas. The page shown here diagrams the routes of famous aviation adventures. I spent a good 45 minutes hunting through the boxes and boxes of old postcards. The combination of the beautiful old illustrations with the original handwritten personal scrawls on the back, make for a fantastic glimpse into and old way of life, a story and art piece.

The postcards were presented courtesy of a postcard club in town called the webfooters. I marked my calendar for the April 17-18th Antique Paper Show and Sale. At a $2 admission fee, this event has got to be good.

Download these graphic goodies from my new flickr set, “Rad Design Finds.”