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Cover ornamented with rubber stamp in blue ink: return address at the "Gesamthochschule Kassel" (University of Kassel). Bifolium card enclosed. Torn scrap of magazine featuring a woman's leg's and white shoes glued to interior. Advertisement for a "Mail Art Performance Party" in Kassel.

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Grey paper with address plate, postage stamps, and postal markings. Sheet does not fully enclose, only has a fold at bottom. Unclear how it was used of what enclosures it might have been with.

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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Cover ornamented with rubber stamp in black ink: sender's return address. Index card enclosed. Repeated rubber stamps in red and urple ink: "I am existing" and "every moment". Feather stuck to card with red putty.

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Cover ornamented with rubber stamp in black and red ink ink: "EXISTANCE". Rubber stamp in purple ink on reverse: sender's return address. Small saddle-stapled booklet enclosed. Collection of mail art titled EXISTING PERSONS, issue #1. Photocopied reproductions including work by Bakhchanyan.

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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.

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Cover ornamented with rubber stamp in purple ink: sender's return address with instruction to "Please add to and return". 8 copies of card with "Atlantis" repeated. Instructions: "CORRECTION! Please change Antarktis into Atlantis!". 3 copies on light card. 5 copies on paper with rubber stamp in red ink indicating they have been "GUMED".

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Cover ornamented with rubber stamp in purple ink: sender's return address. Rubber stamp in red ink: oval design with stars, helix shape, and "MAIL ART". Purple stripe painted across front of cover through address plate. 10 large postcards enclosed. Various collage and geometric designs, embossed with circular seal. 8 postcards enclosed. Various collage and geometric designs, embossed with circular seal, gathered into a translucent paper envelope.

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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The folder includes "International Stamps" issue no. 2 (1981) and "Breakage" portfolio, 1982.

Scope and Contents Cover ornamented with artist stamps featuring a shimmering concentric circle design with a hand ringing a small bell at the center, and "POST ME". Artist stamp over envelope flap on reverse. Sketch of a man's head with text: "speak UP speak OUT", "POST ME", "BERN PORTER commemorative stamp series", and "PITTORE EUFORICO". Rubber stamps in red ink: "Ntity", "International Mail Art is the most important and most significant art movement in the world today", and sender's return address. No...

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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.