Dubbin

Dubbin is a wax product used to soften, condition and waterproof leather and other materials. It consists of natural wax, oil and tallow. Dubbin has been used since medieval times to waterproof and soften leather boots. It is different from shoe polish, which is used to impart shine and color to leather.

Dubbin can be made with beeswax; fish oil; and lard, and can also include mink oil.

The name dubbin is a contraction of the gerund dubbing, describing the action of applying the wax to leather.

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Alucita huebneri

Alucita huebneri is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in most of Europe.

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Punch-marked coins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch-marked_coins

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Mai Trung Thứ (1906–1980)

Mai Trung Thứ was a Vietnamese-French painter. He was one of the graduates of the 1st (1925 - 1930) entering class of the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine in Hanoi. He lived and worked mostly in France. His main subjects were women, children and daily life, incorporating some traditional Vietnamese conceptions about fine arts and folk arts. All his work, apart from a few oil paintings, is silk painting with gouache, by rubbing and colors applied as solids.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mai_Thứ

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Cyclecars

 A cyclecar was a type of small, lightweight and inexpensive car manufactured in Europe and the United States between 1910 and the early 1920s. The purpose of cyclecars was to fill a gap in the market between the motorcycle and the car. A key characteristic was that it could only accomodate two passengers sitting tandem style or passenger behind the driver.

The demise of cyclecars was due to larger cars – such as the Citroën Type C, Austin 7 and Morris Cowley – becoming more affordable. Small, inexpensive vehicles reappeared after World War II, and were known as microcars.

Dana cyclecars in 1908 in Copenhagen, Denmark. made from 1908 to 1914 by Hakon Olsen, Maskinfabriek Dana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_(car)

Grofri was a brand of microcar manufactured in Austria from 1921 to 1931

David was a Spanish company manufacturing automobiles in Barcelona between 1913 and 1923 and again between 1951 and 1957

The Castle Three was a British three-wheeled cyclecar made from 1919 to 1922 by the Castle Motor Company of Castle Mill Works, New Road, Kidderminster, Worcestershire.

The Britannia was a British 4-wheeled cyclecar made in 1913 and 1914

The 1904 Imperial (British) cyclecar

The Car-Nation (also known as Carnation) was a brand of automobile manufactured in Detroit, Michigan, by the American Voiturette Company from 1913 to 1914

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclecar

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Hasui Kawase, Japanese Woodblock Prints (1920s-1950s)

1883-1957

Hasui Kawase was an artist, one of modern Japan's most important and prolific printmakers. He was a prominent designer of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement, whose artists depicted traditional subjects with a style influenced by Western art. Like many earlier ukiyo-e prints, Hasui's works were commonly landscapes, but displayed atmospheric effects and natural lighting.

Hasui designed approximately 620 prints over a career that spanned nearly 40 forty years. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasui_Kawase

Evening Snow at Terashima Village, 1920.

Pond at Benten Shrine in Shiba, 1929.

Nikkō Kaidō, 1930.

Costal Landscape, 1927.

Zōjō-ji in Shiba, 1925.

Sunset at Ichinokura, 1928.

Autumn Rainbow at Hatta, Kaga, 1924.

Spring Night at Inokashira, 1931.

Snow on Lake, 1922.

Kankai Pavillion at Wakaura Beach, 1950.

Moon over Arakawa River, 1929

Spring Moon at Ninomiya Beach, 1931.

Winter Moon at Toyamagahara, 1931.

Crescent Moon and Tea Houses, Kanazawa, 1920s.

Hikawa Park in Omiya, 1930.

Moon Over Akebi Bridge, 1935.

Moon at Magome, 1930.

 In the final year of his life, the Japanese government classified Hasui as a Living National Treasure. Comparable to the American National Medal of Arts and Humanities, Japan’s highest civilian honor is bestowed upon those whose life’s work renders them, in what may be the most poetic government certification in any language, “Preservers of Important Intangible Cultural Properties.”

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