I've been playing around with printing on non-standard paper today. I picked up an old paperback recently in a charity shop. It's got nicely yellowing pages and the paper is very absorbent, so the colours should come out quite flat and, I hope, look rather old-fashioned. I've put together this image to use for the experiment, and if it works I'm thinking of printing out a lot of them and sticking them up around where I live.

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.

Here are two recent additions to the Museum of Found Objects. The earring was found at 3.04pm outside Masala Zone in Bishops Bridge Road in west London on Saturday 4 June. The toy soldier was found on Friday 8 July at 10.23am in Tufnell Park Road in north London.

This is a shop front in Stoke Newington in London. These older shop signs are a fast-vanishing remnant of the 1960s and 1970s. The dated terms used in them was originally intended to suggest the shop's racy modernity, but now evoke a sense of nostalgia.

Here's the latest addition to the collection at the Museum of Miniature Found Objects. It's a miniature Easter egg, found on Eltham Common at 3.01pm on Sunday 15 May, as part of an Easter egg hunt. The donor, Reginald McGuiver, was pursued by a group of angry parents as he ran from the park.

The Museum staff have been thrilled to hear recently of another similar museum in Mijas in Spain, the Carromato de Max, whose collection contains some of the smallest objects in the world, such as Churchill's head sculpted from a stick of chalk and a copy of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper painted on a grain of rice. The Museum of Miniature Found Objects looks forward to forging links with this sister collection.

Steve Bell is currently exhibiting at the Cartoon Museum in Little Russell Street. As the political cartoonist at the Guardian he uses a mordant humour to expose the sham in political life. This cartoon is one of the panels from a strip he had running whilst the ban on fox-hunting in England was being debated in Parliament, with a vast amount of hot air being generated by the pro-hunting lobby. There are no sacred cows in Bell's observations, and he doesn't pull his punches.

The Museum of Miniature Found Objects takes great pleasure in announcing its latest acquisition. This plastic brain was submitted by Ms M. Hewlett of London, and was found at 2.01pm on Saturday 21 May on the corner of Ravenscourt Gardens and Ravenscourt Park in west London.

The Submissions Committee is delighted by this first donation, and welcomes all applications from members of the public.