Is there anything nicer than a rummage through your drawers? I stumbled across these beauties just the other day. I bought them around five years ago when visiting the John Derian store in Provincetown. If you ever go to Provincetown you must pay a visit to the shop as it's absolutely perfect. Located in the most unexpected little spot it's full of treasures like this as well as lots of John Derian goodies of course – deserving of a post in their own right sometime soon. Along with dust and old carrier...
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Do you know the apple man,the apple man,the apple man?Do you know the apple manwho likes to sing with me?Oh, he loves the letter A,the letter A,the letter A,Oh, he loves the letter Aand likes to sing with me.
© All Images by yours truly.
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Vladimir Bobri was an illustrator, author, composer, educator, guitar historian - and all round clever clogs. Celebrated for his prolific and innovative graphic design work in New York since the mid-1920's, Bobri was also a founder of the New York Society Of The Classic Guitar. I know nothing about guitars but I do know a brilliant illustrator when I see one. The composition and colours used in this exquisite alphabet are sublime, they're taken from the book 'N is for Nursery' published in 1956. To see more of Bobri's work as well as heaps...
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The letter R came from the Phoenician letter rosh. The word rosh meant head as the letter resembled a neck and head. It also looked like a backwards P. When the letter entered the Greek alphabet, the Greeks turned the letter around to the position we are familiar with today and added the short leg to the side. They called the new letter rho.
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