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There are | There are five known letterheads in the class of letterheads we are calling Novelty (links below), not counting the notorious [[Rorschach-1 Letterhead]]. What they have in common is a lack of verbal information of any kind. They are all design. | ||
This one | This one is pretty simple and ordinary, having a single handmade woodcut image of a flower in a square frame, stamped onto a rich, handmade paper with lots of fiber-texture but no apparent other features such as watermarks or embossed whatnot. | ||
Only one letter is known to have been written on this letterhead, to [[Ma Dharm Jyoti]]: | Only one letter is known to have been written on this letterhead, to [[Ma Dharm Jyoti]]: | ||
:[[Letter written on 20 Oct 1969]] | :[[Letter written on 20 Oct 1969]] | ||
Other letterheads in this class have also been used only sparingly, and in the same | Other letterheads in this class have also been used only sparingly, and in the same five-month period in 1969: | ||
:[[Novelty-1 Letterhead]] (two letters in Jun) | :[[Novelty-1 Letterhead]] (two letters in Jun) | ||
:[[Novelty-2 Letterhead]] (one | :[[Novelty-2 Letterhead]] ((two letters, one in Aug and one in Oct)) | ||
:[[Novelty-4 Letterhead]] (one letter in Jun) | :[[Novelty-4 Letterhead]] (one letter in Jun) | ||
:[[Novelty-5 Letterhead]] (one letter earlier in Oct) | |||
[[category:Letterhead series]] | [[category:Letterhead series]] | ||
Latest revision as of 23:28, 23 September 2023
There are five known letterheads in the class of letterheads we are calling Novelty (links below), not counting the notorious Rorschach-1 Letterhead. What they have in common is a lack of verbal information of any kind. They are all design.
This one is pretty simple and ordinary, having a single handmade woodcut image of a flower in a square frame, stamped onto a rich, handmade paper with lots of fiber-texture but no apparent other features such as watermarks or embossed whatnot.
Only one letter is known to have been written on this letterhead, to Ma Dharm Jyoti:
Other letterheads in this class have also been used only sparingly, and in the same five-month period in 1969:
- Novelty-1 Letterhead (two letters in Jun)
- Novelty-2 Letterhead ((two letters, one in Aug and one in Oct))
- Novelty-4 Letterhead (one letter in Jun)
- Novelty-5 Letterhead (one letter earlier in Oct)
