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Rebus Challenges in Everyday Life - A collection of 29 Rebus Puzzles from 1817 through 2011

In linguistics, the rebus principle is the use of existing symbols, such as pictograms, purely for their sounds regardless of their meaning, to represent new words. Many ancient writing systems used the rebus principle to represent abstract words, which otherwise would be hard to represent with pictograms. An example that illustrates the Rebus principle is the representation of the sentence "I can see you" by using the pictographs of "eye?can?sea?ewe"

A collection of 29 different rebus puzzles found in ephemera of everyday life. Rebus puzzles are used to catch the eye, draw attention to the subject at hand, to educate and help develop language skills or strictly for entertainment. The collection includes

Lottery ticket - 1817 - A 7 3/4" x 4 1/2" UK New Year's lottery announcement with a comprehensive rebus and a printed translation at base. - All Sterling Money - No Stock Prizes

Christmas & New Year Greetings - from 1870s-80s a very simple two pictogram card and a second elaborate message both wishes seasons greetings.
Advertising trade cards - 1860s-1880s An array of 9 trade cards including an 1860s white on black rebus of almost exclusively pictograms, cards that incorporate the product into the rebus such as the 1880s Durham Smoking Tobacco card, French Shoe black or Chart Oak Stove

a card incorporating the address of The Briggs Excursion Fleet in the rebus as a holiday greeting for 1881

generic rebus cards with merchant imprints at base or on reverse.

Children's games including 9 cards from games requesting the identify of a rhyme or a city, state, country of river

Postcards - 3 cards with various levels of complexity - the first being a c1905 reprint of The Art of Making Money Plenty in every Man's Pocket by Doctor Franklin originally produced in 1854 a card with the solution to the rebus to be found beneath the postage stamp and a proverb card.

Periodicals 2 different examples of clips from periodicals: An illustrated rebus depicting articles usually found in a grocery store and a child's creation on the reverse of a trade card - applying smaller clips as a sort of mini collection

Manuscript - 2 letters both discussing travel

an 1890s single page letter to a child discussing a walk home through the woods.

A 2 page 1937 accounting of a trip from somewhere near Bowling Green, OH through Chicago, Wisconsin, Wyoming including Yellowstone and ending in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Political Campaign Button - A 2 1/2" campaign button reading "Baa" Rake "O" Alabama 4 Whitehouse 2012. Light wear.

Price: $1,750.00

Item #202000112

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