Thursday, November 13, 2014

Salzer's "Oddly Odd Gourds" - 1899

How can you not like a catalog with that sort of quirky salesmanship?
"Oddly Odd" as compared to plain old "Odd"...a more special oddness than the everyday odd?...odder than the usual odd?...an odd that doesn't quite align with oddness?  What does "Oddly Odd" imply? Why not Superbly Odd, or Fantastically Odd?  The Ne Plus Ultra of Odd!
Whatever the reasoning it was a wonderful packet of seeds.



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