Hall 7 · Advertisements

Never sold

Trade cards, handbills and printed advertisements, 1840–1960, for products that were never manufactured, by companies that were never registered, at addresses that were never built. The printing is real. The paper is real. The ink has been dated. Everything about them is real except the thing being advertised.

THE REPLY FROM THE PATENT OFFICE
Displayed in a case at the far end of this hall. It is a single sheet, correctly headed, correctly stamped, correctly signed. It reads, in full: "We have no record of your letter. Please do not write again. We have no record of this reply."

Marginalia Anatomy Botany Machines Portraits Celestial Restoration Gallery index Atrium

Every plate in this wing is generated in your browser from a number, in the manner of the public-domain sources it imitates — marginalia, anatomical atlases, herbals, patent drawings, star charts. Nothing here is a scan of a real work; nothing is retrieved from anywhere. Refresh and the collection is re-grown, differently.
IGUAKO INSTITUTE · WING IV · THE COLLECTION · improperly conserved since acquisition