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Researching Exlibris on Finn.no

Is hard…! ––– But you knew that already, didn’t you? Find Everything! Finn.no is THE second-hand online marketplace in Norway. On Finn.no (which is the imperative verb form of “å finne”, “to find”, so: find!), Norwegians sell and buy – or give away – everything. It is also a job-finding platform; people sell and buy […]

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Dates, Dating, and Uncertainty

It’s a Curious Thing Dates for Exlibris ––– Some artists make it easy for us and add a date to the exlibris, and we can see it with our bare eyes. Normand Laheld is such an exlibris artist for whom we have dates for his exlibris and can be pretty certain they are correct. He […]

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Haavardsholm and Norwegian Resistance

Military Bookplates I’m on a hunt (again, still?), and I found another exlibris by Frøydis Haavardsholm. It is reprinted in the book Militære Bogejermærker. Exlibris by E. O. A. Hedegaard. Poul A. Andersen’s forlag, 1967. The book itself is not easy to find and I had to order it as an interlibrary loan. Previously held […]

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Trembling with Anticipation

I assume you are! In the Making: Per Teigen I’m working on a longer post about Per Teigen and his 1946 exlibris portfolio. It led me down a deeeeeeeep rabbit hole about Motstandsarbeidet (resistance) in Norway during the war and occupation. There is so much I do not know. Growing up and spending 30 years […]

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Norwegian Exlibris at the Hungarian Exlibris Museum

The Hungarian Exlibris Museum Where would you expect to find Norwegian exlibris? We know there are only a few Norwegian ones on art-exlibris.net (the database of the Danish Art Museum in Frederikshavn), and it seems that the Norwegian bookplates are not well represented outside Norway. Well, there’s one place you might not expect but should […]