Mondo Lizzie Borden

The May 2008 issue of The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden’s Journal of Murder, Mystery & Victorian History has been placed ONLINE for your reading pleasure! This issue is a full 86 pages in length and contains some more surprising discoveries.

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IN THIS ISSUE:

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It has been a long wait. The first Curse of Lizzie Borden was a cracker jack movie. Campy, campy, campy. Now we have the second in the series. I ordered mine. Have you?

“HOW MANY MORE OF US ARE GOING TO DIE, CASSIE?”

From the UK, an original watercolor on watercolor paper. Here is the skinny from the sale on eBay.

Busy Lizzie

8″ x 11″ signed original watercolour on watercolour paper by Dominic Murphy. I will post worldwide and combine postage on multiple items. Thanks for looking. Check out my other items!Be sure to add me to your favourites list!

Lizzie Borden took an axe

Gave her mother forty whacks

When she saw what she had done

Gave her father forty-one

Link.

This is not a photo of Lizzie Borden, but as the seller acknowledges, it is a work of art that makes one think of the later brutality in a new light after looking at an innocent girl.

I support aspiring artists and especially enjoy collecting folk art pieces that are Lizzie related. Little Lizzie belongs to me now.

Find other interesting pieces at Gothic Rose Antiques.

There is a new item up for bid on eBay that has a few problems. No disrespect to the artist, whom I am sure was trying to do her best—but the creator of this Lizzie Borden doll apparently used a photo to help her detail the face that is not Lizzie Borden, but the now infamous “man-hands” Lizzie. It is a shame that she created it from this photo, especially since the artist is asking for a starting bid of $750 for her work.

She did a very good job of reproducing the face in the photo. Too bad the face is not that of Lizzie Borden. Lizzie’s nose is much more narrow and petite.

Link to sale on eBay.

LIZZIE IS A ONE OF A KIND 43″ TALL LIMITED EDITION ARTIST DOLL. PORCELAIN HEAD, UPPER TORSO AND LOWER LIMBS. PIERCING GLASS EYES. CUSTOM CLOTHING INCLUDES ANTIQUE SHOES, UNDERDRESS AND HAT. SHE HOLDS AND ACTUAL VINTAGE MINIATURE AXE AND BLOODY DRESS. WOOD STAND IS INCLUDED.

PERMANENTLY COLORED AND SEALED.

ARTIST SIGNED WITH CERTIFICATE.

BLOOD CAN BE ADDED AT BUYER’S REQUEST.

Yes, here she is, axe in hand. And with a few “practice” swings under her belt. And only $24.95.

PAULS FOUL BALLS Hot Mint Rookie Card Series 1 and Autographed Signed Baseball Lizzie Borden.

UPDATE: Michael Brimbau points out that there are TWO original Porter’s (not one) on abebook.com. Both equally priced at $950.

Here is the second one first:

The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the Borden Murders. Porter, Edwin H.

Bookseller: Berry Hill Book Shop
(Deansboro, NY, U.S.A.)
US$ 950.00

Description: 1893, First Edition, Good Plus/no dj, octavo, 312pp., dark green cloth with gold lettering faded off cover & backstrip, both interior hinge papers cracking, small owner’s stamps on t.p. & top margins of c.25pp. of text, frayed at bottom of backstrip& bumped at corners, circular 1″ stain top margins pp 111-115, 1″ top corner clipped off p. 7-8, owner’s name & inscription on ffe, b&w ill’s throughout, extremely scarce original edition of the first history of the Borden case by the Fall River Globe police reporter, most copies allegedly bought up & destroyed by Lizzie. Bookseller Inventory # 30

LINK.

The Fall River Tragedy. A history of the Borden murders. PORTER, EDWIN H.
Bookseller: John Waite Rare Books, ABAA
(Ascutney, VT, U.S.A.)
Book Price: US$ 950.00
Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Fall River, MA: Geo. R. H. Buffinton, 1893
Publication Date: 1893
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition

Description: 8vo., pp. [1 ff] + [3]-312; navy cloth, dulled; tips and spine ends lightly worn; joints cracked; old cellotape to gutter at front hinges; good only. First edition. Riveting account of perhaps the most famous murders in America during the 19th century — the Lizzie Borden case. Porter, a police reporter for the Fall River Globe, gives a full narrative of the crime and subsequent trial. Highly desirable and scarce in trade. Bookseller Inventory # 4356

abebooks.com link.