Museum of Miniature Found Objects

This paperback cover is a gem of 1950’s jacket design, jumping out from a crowded rack in a second-hand bookshop in Islington. The image is a dramatic piece of illustration, hinting at a racy story before the book’s even been opened. When I took if off the rack to have a look I discovered a card inside — Walter Trauffer on the Via Cattedrale in Lugano advertising his music boxes and cuckoo clocks. By the look of it The Case of the Empty Tin’s from the same era, with Walter Trauffer’s offerings used as a book mark on an Italian holiday.