Scope and Contents Cover ornamented with rubber stamp in blue ink: return address at the "Gesamthochschule Kassel" (University of Kassel). Top-right corner of cover including postage stamps has been cut out. Small card enclosed. Jigsaw puzzle piece glued to card with text: "This is one piece of the eternal Puzzle." Numbered "146". 4 1/4"x5 1/2" inch sheet enclosed. Translucent paper. Rubber stamps in blue ink: return addresses. Inscription thanks Bakhchanyan for a book he sent. Postcard-sized sheet enclosed....

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Bifolium card. Advertisement for exhibition by Olbrich at the "Galerie für junge Künstler" in Mannheim. Postcard found inside folded card. Dates and locations for a touring "table" exhibition featuring artists from 21 countries, organised by Olbrich. Inscription thanks Bakhchanyan for his contribution(?). No cover.

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Photocopied collage of text and arrows: "national length", "interntaional length", and "Created and perfected". Rubber stamp in blue ink on reverse: "Original Olbrich". No cover, recipient address, postage stamps, or postal markings.

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Photocopied collage of woman's face with dotted texture and text: "Warning: THINK FIRST -MOST DOCTORS DON'T". Rubber stamp in blue ink on reverse: "Original Olbrich". No cover, recipient address, postage stamps, or postal markings.

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Photocopied collage of dotted texture background with text: "BALD!" (soon). Rubber stamp in blue ink on reverse: "Original Olbrich". No cover, recipient address, postage stamps, or postal markings.

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Bold text: "es ist einiges drauf.)" (there is some evidence). Rubber stamp in blue ink on reverse: "Original Olbrich". No cover, recipient address, postage stamps, or postal markings.

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Jigsaw puzzle piece glued to card with text: "This is one piece of the eternal Puzzle." Numbered "690". No cover, recipient address, postage stamps, or postal markings.

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Background image of perforated stamp sheet. Invitation to participate in a mail art project on the theme "REALITY".

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Saddle-stapled booklet titled an American Dream Sequence, "excerpts from a noh book". Features collage art using scraps torn from books, newspapers, and magazines, with captions partially in play form. Book ornamented with various rubber stamps. #45 in ORWORKS series. No cover.

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Small saddle-stapled booklet titled Dead Certainties: Art Can Be Dangerous, "unpaginated, unillustrated & uncut". Features text concerning respiratory checkup via spirogram. Some pages stapled together and only partially readable. Book ornamented with various rubber stmaps. #47 in ORWORKS series. Card found inside booklet. Green card, photocopied collage and rubber stamps. No cover.

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Small saddle-stapled booklet titled IRRELEVANCIES, "NOTHING PERSONAL". Features crude cartoons with captions. Book ornamented with various rubber stmaps. #48 in ORWORKS series. No cover.

Scope and Contents Small saddle-stapled booklet. Title unclear, text on cover: "Your Autobiography & Mine", "je meurs trop" (I die too), "PARDON MY FRENCH", and "The Good-for-Nothing World is Limitless OR Should be". Possible author or pseudonym: "R. Filliou 1962". Features photocopied collage of photographs with text and speech bubbles. Some pages stapled together and only partially readable, booklet was original stapled closed at outer edge. Book ornamented with various rubber stmaps. #49 in ORWORKS...

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Saddle-stapled booklet featuring mail art, collage art, and concrete poetry by Periera. US Letter sheet found in booklet. Green paper, invitation to contribute to the INTERNATIONAL POETRY YEARBOOK 1985. Paper slip found in booklet. Mail order information for INTERNATIONAL POETRY YEARBOOK 1984.

Scope and Contents Cover ornamented with rubber stamp in purple ink: sender's return address. Rubber stamps in red ink: square design with "Mail Art Action Marx-Test", "DO NOT FOLD/NICHT FALTEN/NO DOBLEQUE". Silver label in circular seal design with Karl Marx's hair and facial hair shape: "stamp to create a marxist". Gold label with circular seal design, embossed: "BY PERNECZKY WITH ONE'S OWN HAND". A4 stapled booklet enclosed. Documents the "MARX TEST" project, where Perneczky made circular stamp designs of...

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Red cover, address plate on paper slip has come unglued. Note: addressed to Irene Bakhchanyan, not Vagrich. 33 paper slips enclosed. Copies of "stamp to create a marxist" design. Rubber stamp in black ink on reverse: sender's return address, and instructions to "please add to and return". No postage stamps or postal markings on cover.

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Saddle-stapled booklet with leather card cover. Includes a tear-off pad of "stamp to create a marxist" circular seal designs. Rubber stamps in red ink: circular "stamp to create a marxist" design. Rubber stamps in blue ink: sphinx design. No cover.

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Four blank postcards found clipped together. Each ornamented with stamps of the logo of a brand of alcohol (e.g. "Remy Martin Cognac") in various colors. Inscription claims cards are infused with a drop of the labelled alcohol, and that the stamps were made with corks from the respective bottles.

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US Letter sheet. Invitation to participate in a mail art exhibition in Philadelphia: "SEND ANY CONTAINER OF RAIN". Photocopied collage of woman with an umbrella, holding an icosahedral globe under her arm and text: "LEAVE A JAR OUTSIDE", "when it rains". Hand-written inscription to Bakhchanyan on reverse in blue pen. No cover, address plate, postage stamps, or postal markings.

Scope and Contents Cover ornamented with rubber stamps in red ink: return address for "MAIL ART EVENTS / EDITIONS DAOBADAO" in Switzerland, circular seal design with "MAIL ART AROUND THE WORLD", "1997-1998", and "INVITATION FROM MYANMAR". Rubber stamp in blue ink: hybrid animal-anthropomorphic deity image, circular seal design with "SOUVENIRS EN VRAC" (memories in bulk), "ART POSTAL", and "YANGON MYANMAR 1997". 2 small card bifoliums enclosed. Invitations to participate in mail art projects, handwritten in...

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Cover ornamented with rubber stamps in black ink: film strip design with "DIArrhöe SHOW", and sender's return address. Postcard enclosed. Line art drawing of a figure in a yellow turtleneck. Reverse of card washed in olive watercolor paint. Small saddle-stapled booklet enclosed. Documentation of the "DIArrhöe SHOW" mail art exhibition organized by Skopnik and two others. No date, CDS too faint.

Scope and Contents Red cover ornamented with rubber stamps in black ink: film strip design with "DIArrhöe SHOW", and sender's return address. Green artist stamp depicting a man with a leather shoe collaged over his eyes placed over envelope flap. A5 sheet enclosed. Line art of Empire State Building with the Chrysler Building leaning sideways out from behind it. Request for mail art material on New York. Bottom-right corner missing from sheet. A4 sheet enclosed. Circuit diagram with collage elements and...

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Green card advertising an event with notable artist Bern Porter in New York, discribed as the "Ntity CONSPIRACY MEETING". Artist stamp featuring a portrait of a man with a black redaction stripe over his eyes, and "POST ME". Rubber stamp in red ink: sender's return address. Inscription to Bakhchanyan invites him to the event. Legal US postage stamp, but no postal markings for date.

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Cover ornamented with rubber stamps in red ink: "-vast but vain initiative-", "STAMPE", and sender's return address. Recipient's address written in purple ink. A4 sheet enclosed. Typewritten invitation to participate in a travelling photograph exhibtion on the theme: "THE NAKED CHILD IN FRONT OF HIS IMPOSSIBILITY TO REACT AT THE IMPOSED SITUATIONS - AGE 6-12".

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Postcard with photograph depicting a shallow circular trench made by the artist in a stone beach on Cornwallis Island (Northwest Territories, Canada), dated June 11 1980. Signed "Ardy". No postage stamps or postal markings. Sender's location inferred from research.

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Postcard with photograph depicting indigenous residents of Ellesmere Island (Northwest Territories, Canada), dated June 17 1980. Advertisement for an exhibtion of works by the artist at a gallery in Chicago. No postage stamps or postal markings.

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Commercial cover from American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), Non-Profit mailed to Plunkett. Reverse of cover ornamented with rubber stamps in black ink: skeletons, lungs, woman with a false nose, cartoon policeman, comic strip, and "THEMATIC APPERCEPTION". Enclosures: letter from director of AARP, mail order form for membership, business reply mail envelope. No additional postage stamps or postage markings to indicate how it was passed on to Bakhchanyan.

Scope and Contents Commercial cover from Muscular Dystrophy Association, Non-Profit mailed to Plunkett. Reverse of cover ornamented with rubber stamps in black ink: skeletons, woman with a false nose, cartoon wrestlers, block of ice, silhouette with "DOCTOR X", and "HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY". Paper slip with female dancer stapled to reverse. Staple goes right through cover and enclosures which cannot be removed as a result. No additional postage stamps or postage markings to indicate how it was passed...

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Reorder card painted with sharp curved strokes in red, blue, teal, and black paint. Yellow spraypaint in center with text "PEART" in black pen. Invitation to participate in a mail art show on the theme of "Celebrating Bad Taste in American Society". No CDS.

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US Letter sheet. Invitation to participate in a mail art exhibition in Philadelphia: "SEND ANY CONTAINER OF RAIN". Photocopied collage of woman with an umbrella, holding an icosahedral globe under her arm and text: "LEAVE A JAR OUTSIDE", "when it rains". Hand-written inscription to Bakhchanyan on reverse in blue pen. No cover, address plate, postage stamps, or postal markings.

Scope and Contents Cover ornamented with rubber stamps in red ink: return address for "MAIL ART EVENTS / EDITIONS DAOBADAO" in Switzerland, circular seal design with "MAIL ART AROUND THE WORLD", "1997-1998", and "INVITATION FROM MYANMAR". Rubber stamp in blue ink: hybrid animal-anthropomorphic deity image, circular seal design with "SOUVENIRS EN VRAC" (memories in bulk), "ART POSTAL", and "YANGON MYANMAR 1997". 2 small card bifoliums enclosed. Invitations to participate in mail art projects, handwritten in...