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This is the preliminary printing for a mail art project that was projected to become a book dealing with short prose pieces about mail artists. The project did not come to fruition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The piece consists of a small suitcase collaged with overlaid pages from a small format encyclopedia that has been printed on wood based acid paper as evidenced by the discolorations. The inside of the suitcase is also collaged with the same pages. Eight cardboard boxes are placed within the suitcase. Their labels related to their contents. For example, a box with the dictionary definition of camouflage contains a paper butterfly cut from a dictionary page that is pinned onto a dictionary page fitted to the bottom of the box. A box labeled lent contains ashes. A box labeled trinity contains an insulated electric wire with three smaller insulated electric wires against a black paper background. According to a letter from Collins, the other copy is in a Hungarian collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The recto and verso are printed the same, i.e., the left side for a message and the right side for the address of the recipient. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Held provides a biography of Corbett that deals with his transition from a classically trained studio artist to a network artist making original rubberstamps. He notes that his rubber stamps reflect an intimate knowledge of Dada, Surrealism, Futurism, Constructivism, New Realusm, Gutai, and Fluxus. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Also designated Objecta #3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book was written for a PhD thesis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The recto reads "E.O.N. - unruly mailings since 1977." The verso reads "A rubber stamped collage by Vittore Baroni." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Feature art of the seventies from the Michael Morris/Vincent Trasov archive assembled between 1968-1980. The archive is the largest collection of mail art in Canada and numbers 10,000 items. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Mike Dyar writes on his note that "this was a collaboration between Ray Johnson & myself. He sent me this as a drawing & asked me to sculpt & cast it in plaster." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The card depicts a champagne glass with champagne made of cut newspaper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.