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Hobbies Weekly No. 7

Hobbies Ltd. · 1895 · 20 pictures

A weekly hobby magazine issued by Hobbies Ltd. in England in 1895 for amateur craftsmen working in fretwork, bent iron, photography, electrical experiment and stamp collecting. Line engravings show scrolled wrought-iron flower stands, brackets and hanging lamps drawn as working patterns, alongside ornamental headings such as a lettered "For Sale and Exchange" banner with scales, shaking hands and banderole \u2014 usable as scroll motifs, spot ornaments and decorative headers.

Stamps and stamp collecting · Fretworking and inlaying · Venetian ribbon or bent iron work · Photographic notes of the week · Hobbies that pay · Playgrounds of electrical science - the induction coil - how to make and use it · Notes on cycling and sport · Bazaars and the arrangement of side shows · The magic lantern · Weekly presentation deign · Correspondence · Prize competitions

Internet Archive · Public domain (published before 1931)