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John Fitzgerald Kennedy – The Eternal Flame

Deborah Swain posted an article on The Penny Black 1840 Blog - Nov 22, 2009, 1:34 pm
John F Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States was assassinated on this day - 22 November - in 1963. He was shot dead in Dallas, Texas, while riding in an open car, in a killing that ...
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Hasbro's William "The Fridge" Perry as G.I. Joe physical training instructor!

Deborah Swain posted an article on Vintage Action Figures - Nov 14, 2009, 1:34 pm
As I live in Rome, Italy I couldn't have been more surprised to find this action figure of American pro football player William Perry aka The Refrigerator the other day.  He was right at the bott...
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Shirley Temple in 'Curly Top' - 1936

Deborah Swain posted an article on Vintage Postcard Gallery - Nov 13, 2009, 8:11 am
This lovely uncirculated vintage movie star postcard features a heavily disguised Shirley Temple in a scene from the 1935 Fox musical Curly Top. Directed by Irving Cummings, this film was another hit ...
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Stories by Matteo Peretti at Emmeotto Gallery on Via Margutta

Deborah Swain posted an article on Living in Rome - Nov 12, 2009, 10:27 am
I have to admit that whenever I wander down Via Margutta and look at the private galleries it isn't often that I'm wildly impressed by anything I see there. All that changed the other day, how...
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Coldstream Guards Marching to Petersfield Manoeuvres - 1905 -1910

Deborah Swain posted an article on Vintage Postcard Gallery - Nov 11, 2009, 11:04 am
Lest we forget...Today, 11th November, is Armistice Day so I thought this image of the marching Coldstream Guards on their way to Petersfield Manoeuvres would be a timely addition to the blog. Her Ma...
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Sika Deer on 1970 USSR tourism stamp

Deborah Swain posted an article on The Penny Black 1840 Blog - Nov 8, 2009, 10:15 am
I've always loved the dramatic design of this 10 kopeks stamp issued in 1970 by the USSR. Using only two colours - a warm orange-brown for the two Sika Deer at the centre of the design and the sur...
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Vintage 1991 X-Men action figures by Toy Biz

Deborah Swain posted an article on Vintage Action Figures - Nov 7, 2009, 11:01 am
I recently picked up an old X-Men Marvel comic in a second hand store - in fact, it wasn't just any old issue, but #1 from October 1991, when they were relaunched as simply "X-Men" (rather than "U...
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Scudding Dhow by Arthur H Frimin - 1950s

Deborah Swain posted an article on Vintage Postcard Gallery - Nov 6, 2009, 11:11 am
This real photo postcard of a traditional Arab sailing vessel - a dhow - used to this day along the coasts of East Africa, is in almost mint, uncirculated condition and was issued by the studio A.H. ...
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The Breakwater at Oamaru, New Zealand - early 1900s

Deborah Swain posted an article on Vintage Postcard Gallery - Oct 30, 2009, 10:27 am
One of the joys of collecting postcards is in uncovering the stories of the people in them or the far-way places pictured. Oamaru, 120 kilometres north of Dunedin on the coast of New Zealand's Sou...
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Ryuichi Sakamoto - Playing the Piano | The Auditorium, Rome | 28 October, 2009

Deborah Swain posted an article on Living in Rome - Oct 29, 2009, 2:51 pm
After the recent Rome film festival which focussed on the environment with its Cape Farewell: Art & Climate Change exhibition and events, it would be hard to imagine a better way of maintaining the cr...
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Horror movie action figure icons for Halloween!

Deborah Swain posted an article on Vintage Action Figures - Oct 28, 2009, 11:38 am
October 31st will soon be upon us so here's a timely look at some spooky vintage action figures and a few of the best horror movie icons to have been immortalized as toys over the years. Happy Hal...
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The 1990 Simpsons action figures by Mattel

Deborah Swain posted an article on Vintage Action Figures - Oct 24, 2009, 5:11 am
When in the spring of 1987 Matt Groening created a series of short animated sketches for The Tracey Ullman Show - The Simpsons - who could have imagined that those early incarnations of Homer, Marge,...
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Meryl Streep Dazzles Crowds at Rome Film Festival

Deborah Swain posted an article on Living in Rome - Oct 23, 2009, 11:21 am
Try as the organisers might to hype up the events aimed at promoting home grown talent, the biggest crowd pullers this year at what is, after all, an international film festival, have been the big Hol...
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Hollywood comes to Rome - Richard Gere and George Clooney at Rome Film Festival

Deborah Swain posted an article on Living in Rome - Oct 18, 2009, 4:04 am
If the opening night of the Rome Film Festival was a rather low key event, Saturday saw the festival ratchet the excitement up several notches as Hollywood came to town in the form of two of the world...
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Opera Singer Alba Chrétien-Vaguet - 1901

Deborah Swain posted an article on Vintage Postcard Gallery - Oct 16, 2009, 9:08 am
Portrait postcards of opera stars were extremely popular in the early 1900s and although many of the names will only be familiar to opera-buffs nowadays, they are still charming indicators of how fash...
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Movie Legend Sir Christopher Lee at Opening of Rome Film Festival 2009

Deborah Swain posted an article on Living in Rome - Oct 16, 2009, 5:21 am
The fourth edition of the Rome Film Festival began yesterday on the very day that the balmy Indian summer that Rome had been previously enjoying ended abruptly, so it was a very chilly walk up the red...
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Rome Film Festival and Climate Change on Blog Action Day

Deborah Swain posted an article on Living in Rome - Oct 13, 2009, 10:07 am
Today, 15 October 2009, is Blog Action Day 2009 when, once again, thousands of bloggers around the world all write a post about one important topic. After the success of the 2008 initiative when blogg...
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Happy Birthday John Lennon!

Deborah Swain posted an article on Vintage Action Figures - Oct 9, 2009, 10:11 am
Today, 9th October, would have been John Lennon's 69th birthday. Whilst many news blogs remember the day he was shot dead in New York on 8th December, 1980, Yoko Ono continues to celebrate his bir...
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Sante Fe Streamliner Crossing Canyon Diablo - 1941

Deborah Swain posted an article on Vintage Postcard Gallery - Oct 9, 2009, 4:49 am
As somebody who has lived their entire life in Europe, I'm fascinated by the elegance and romanticism of US streamliner trains, so found this Fred Harvey Trading Co. postcard of a Sante Fe Streaml...
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300,000 in Defence of Press Freedom!

Deborah Swain posted an article on Living in Rome - Oct 4, 2009, 9:53 am
Whilst anybody who has been following recent events in Italy might have expected this protest to be big, nothing could have prepared one for the sheer scale of the demonstration in defence of press fr...
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Comic Tryst Between Butler and Housemaid - early 1900s

Deborah Swain posted an article on Vintage Postcard Gallery - Oct 2, 2009, 4:17 am
I picked up this little gem from the so-called Golden Age of postcard production at a market in Rome. This comic postcard depicts a classic "upstairs downstairs" innuendo-laden scenario with the butle...
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Kikuyu Witch Doctor - 1950s

Deborah Swain posted an article on Vintage Postcard Gallery - Sep 30, 2009, 9:34 am
This very fine portrait of a Kikuyu traditional doctor in Kenya, East Africa - a "Kikuyu Witch", as he is described here - was taken by S. Skulina, a commercial photographer working in Kenya during th...
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New Moon, new action figures – Edward, Bella, Alice and Jacob by NECA!

Deborah Swain posted an article on Vintage Action Figures - Sep 30, 2009, 5:39 am
New Moon is this year's highly-anticipated sequel to the blockbuster vampire film, Twilight, based on the massive-selling teen-novels by Stephenie Meyer. In The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Kristen St...
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Super poseable Hulk Movie 2003 figure

Deborah Swain posted an article on Vintage Action Figures - Sep 23, 2009, 5:15 am
When the Incredible Hulk appeared on the big screen in 2003 in Ang Lee's hotly anticipated Hulk, critics and public alike just didn't seem to get the movie and it met with a tepid reception....
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La Fontana del Facchino - The Little Porter Fountain

Deborah Swain posted an article on Living in Rome - Sep 22, 2009, 9:45 am
Welcome to the first of a new series of posts - Discover Rome - taking a closer look at some of the hidden treasures of Rome and some of my favourite Roman curiosities that are sometimes overshadowed ...
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'Good Luck from St.Ives' Mailing Novelty - 1958

Deborah Swain posted an article on Vintage Postcard Gallery - Sep 18, 2009, 11:11 am
I'm not a huge fan of cutesy kitten cards but this is such a great example of a vintage mailing novelty postcard, featuring one of my favourite seaside resorts, that I just couldn't resist it!...
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Bruce Lee in action as Kato with new Green Hornet figure

Deborah Swain posted an article on Vintage Action Figures - Sep 4, 2009, 11:18 am
In recent years some of the very best action figure likenesses have been of martial arts icon Bruce Lee, with particular praise inevitably going to Japanese toy makers Enterbay who have seriously rais...
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Cindy Sherman at the Gagosian Gallery

Deborah Swain posted an article on Living in Rome - Sep 3, 2009, 5:18 am
Earlier this year I wrote enthusiastically about the stunning Anselm Kiefer exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery on Via Francesco Crispi. Clearly, that show was no flash in the pan, because the Gagosian...
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Hulk Hogan with Hulkster Slam!

Deborah Swain posted an article on Vintage Action Figures - Sep 1, 2009, 8:14 am
After a great August break we're back in the saddle here at Vintage Action Figures with a bit of 1990s wrestling nostalgia with this vintage WWF Wrestling Action Figure of Hulk Hogan made by Hasbr...
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Paddle Steamer 'Patria' on Lake Como - 1950

Deborah Swain posted an article on Vintage Postcard Gallery - Aug 29, 2009, 8:20 am
Collecting postcards that focus on modes of transportation is a very popular sub-genre of deltiology, with some collectors concentrating specifically on particular modes of travel such as planes, trai...
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Pre-order Beetlejuice Red Wedding Tuxedo 7 inch action figure throughout August!

Deborah Swain posted an article on Vintage Action Figures - Aug 3, 2009, 9:18 am
When the comedy horror fantasy film Beetlejuice was first released in 1988, it was immediately clear that the relatively new director Tim Burton was a man to watch. In fact, he has since become one of...
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Diabolik and Eva Kant at Palazzo Incontro

Deborah Swain posted an article on Living in Rome - Aug 2, 2009, 9:06 am
The Italian anti-hero of comic books Diabolik and his partner in love and crime Eva Kant are the stars of the largest ever exhibition dedicated to their “diaboliKal life” at Palazzo Incontro. An a...
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US Postal Service Elvis Stamp Ballot Postcard - 1992

Deborah Swain posted an article on Vintage Postcard Gallery - Aug 1, 2009, 6:23 am
I'm a huge Elvis fan so I wanted to post something here for August, the month in which fans everywhere remember him and mourn his premature death on 16 August, 1977. One of the world's most c...
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Antony and the Roma Sinfonietta Orchestra | The Auditorium, Rome | 28 July, 2009

Deborah Swain posted an article on Living in Rome - Jul 30, 2009, 5:57 am
After his sell out performance at Sala Santa Cecilia in March this year, Antony Hegarty was back at the Auditorium, Parco della Musica on Tuesday evening in one of the most eagerly anticipated appoint...
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Tracy Chapman: Our Bright Future | The Auditorium, Rome | 27 July, 2009

Deborah Swain posted an article on Living in Rome - Jul 28, 2009, 9:54 am
The hugely talented singer-songwriter and guitarist Tracy Chapman has been a frequent visitor to the Eternal City over the last few years, and judging from the warmth of the welcome she was given by t...
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The Crew of Apollo 11 - 1969

Deborah Swain posted an article on Vintage Postcard Gallery - Jul 28, 2009, 4:51 am
I couldn't let the month of July go by without posting something to commemorate the moon landing forty years ago. However, instead of the usual lunar images and space-suited astronauts I thought I...
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About Me

I am a British-born freelance Web consultant and translator. After studying Fine Art at Reading University I moved from England to the foothills of the Sibillini Mountains in the Le Marche region of Italy in 1994. I now live in Rome, the Eternal City.

I love blogging, poetry, Squidoo, Elvis, live music, HK movies, MotoGP, photography, and collecting signed books, stamps, postcards and action figures.

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