Piece By Piece
Searching for Bobby Fischer’s Stuff
Piece by Piece Bobby Fischer isn’t the only world chess champion on collector David DeLucia’s radar. Though he owns Fischer’s accordion, harmonica, and some trophies, the author of Bobby Fischer Uncensored has a number of other world chess champions’ things, including a Man Ray-made sterling silver trophy.
Finding a Common Thread in Samplers
PIECE BY PIECE “Stitches” are what a doctor gives you after a hard fall and “samplers” are an appetizer you order when you’re really hungry, right? Not to a little girl coming of age in the 18th and 19th centuries. Read on to find out what “stitching a sampler” meant to young women back then.
Do the Write Thing
PIECE BY PIECE Anatomy of a great collection as told by its creator Long before text message and Twitter dared us to make the most of 140 characters there was another restricted writing space that tested our ability to be brief: the postcard.
Comic Genius
PIECE BY PIECE Anatomy of a great collection as told by its creator A 19th century writer named Thomas Carlyle once wrote, “The true university of these days is a collection of books.” If comic books count–about 10,000 of them–then Marc Lasry has earned himself a few extra degrees (in addition to the B.A. and J.D. he picked up at school).
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