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I came very close to wasting an entire morning in search of more information about Dana Todd and “The Odd Shop” in Minneapolis, Minnesota after finding a mention of the store on the Internet in an old 1909 school journal of some sort. However, sniffing the trail of things like that often lead to an entire day doing nothing but “research.” When my dear spouse, She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, walks through my little dungeon and asks, “What the devil are you doing?,” I always answered in my most annoyed voice; “I’m working!”
So I’m resisting the temptation and forcing myself to just simply get on with it without rambling or getting sidetracked. But there is one thing I need to mention concerning “why I have a fondness in my heart for The Twin Cities,” but that can wait a minute while I try to squeeze every last penny out of this really sweet old paper cut silhouette.
Overall = 10 ¼” by 13”
Image = 5 ½” by 7 ¾”
The piece remains in its original frame and is undisturbed. In other words, no one has taken it out of the frame since it was framed many years ago; by Dana Todd, I assume. The white backing is only very lightly age toned – as nice as you’ll ever find. My camera wanted to make the images off-white this morning, so I convert a couple images to black and white – for accuracy.
The original sticker remains on the back. I’m guessing, and I do mean “guessing,” that it dates to somewhere around 1915-1930.
The rest of the description with more pictures continues below this memo about my two “Prime Directives:”
First: I never, under any circumstances, use a reserve, and everything starts at $9, sometimes even less. I never end auctions early.
Second: I rarely clean, repair, or otherwise monkey around with anything. Normally I push enough dust aside to note any flaws, but if I discovered it in some dusty attic, you can look forward to a little dust on it when it gets to your house. If it has a flaw or a wart, I’ll tell you about it.
So rest easy and have some fun. Why not place a little tiny bid right now so’s you don’t forget about it later.
If you rammed a stick up stuck me on a stick and held me over a campfire like weenie until I pointed out a “flaw,” I could still only point to the itsy-bitsy piece apparently missing at the front top of her bonnet. It’s not really an issue, but you forced me to point out something before being consumed by fire.
You can skip the rest of this if you want, but there is a full picture of the back down at the bottom.
I have a special fondness for Minneapolis-St. Paul because of one guy, an Air Traffic Controller who was working the tower one beautiful fall afternoon – not a cloud in the sky, not a whiff of wind – perfect, in other words. I don’t remember what I was doing in the area, but I decided to land at the St. Paul Downtown Airport.
I was handed off to the tower three miles out, and the guy cleared me for a straight in approach, Runway 32. Well, I had a friend with me, and we were probably chatting about antiques, so I guess, as usual, I wasn’t paying much attention to flying the plane. (That’s not a good idea, but it happens. I’m even guilty of answering emails from my laptop when I should have been concentrating on altitude.)
Anyhow . . . as we chatted, I touched down on the numbers, smooth as a baby’s butt by the way, and asked the tower for directions to such-and-such hanger. He said, “Well, if you’d landed on runway 32 as cleared, you’d make your first right turnoff. But since you landed on runway 31, you have a little more of a taxi.”
Before I could even start apologizing for such a boneheaded error, he said, “Don’t worry about it. It happens all the time.” I thought that was right neighborly of him, and I’ve liked the Twin Cities ever since. One person can make your world a little happier simply by being nice.
See? The back remains totally undisturbed. NO DISAPPOINTMENTS.
GOOD LUCK
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