Showing posts with label anna banana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anna banana. Show all posts

Monday, September 18, 2017

Rosbak Perforator For Sale


Anna Banana ran out of her supply of the dry-gummed paper she's used to produce her full color, perforated International Art Post (IAP) editions. A case-lot purchase is required, which would provide enough paper to keep her producing stamps well into her 80's. While she loves the product, the work/time involved in producing these editions takes her away from her creative work, and her ongoing search to find a home for her 45+ year archive of mail art works, publications and catalogues. 

In order to facilitate those objectives, something's got to give. At this time, it's her production of International Art Post artistamps.

We are saddened by this news! 

But artists, you can benefit from this. She is offering a once in a lifetime opportunity to acquire her 1917, Rosbak rotary pin-hole perforator:
  • It's(electric) motorized; works like a hot damn    
  • The base is cast iron, and working parts (perf wheels & shaft) are steel = HEAVY 
  •  The feed table (shown in photo) and receiving tray on other side both fold down for storage or shipping
Ideal for the artistamp maker who wants to produce stamp-like, perforated editions as a business, create projects, make a variety of artistamps.


Contact her at <a_banana@uniserve.com> or (604)885-7156 or write her at:

Banana Productions, 3747 Hwy. 101, Roberts Creek, BC, Canada V0N 2W2

Asking $2,000 or best offer plus shipping (you arrange transport with shipper of choice).

Editor note: Sometimes you can get a good rate with freight shippers listed online.

Note: You too can post an ad if you have a relevant announcement about artistamp activity or publication. Email for terms and conditions.

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Ex Postal Facto Conference - California, USA - 2014


Jennie Hinchcliff has organized a three day celebration of correspondence art, letter writing, and faux philatelics. The “Ex Postal Facto” conference will be held February 14th to February 16th, 2014, in San Francisco at venues around the city. If you are in the area you MUST get there! There will be so many people attending who have work in the Gina Lotta Post Artistamp Museum, you will have a chance to meet. Below are just some of the events:

Kicking off the conference February 14th, the San Francisco Center for the Book hosts an opening reception for their exhibition “Mail/Art/Book.” Showcasing pieces by contemporary artists working in the genre of correspondence art, the exhibition also provides a historical perspective of Networker/ postal culture in the bay area.

The following day (Feb. 15th), a vendor expo will be held at the historic downtown San Francisco Elks Lodge, featuring small press publishers and artists whose work highlights faux postage (a.k.a “artist stamps”), postal art, and/or letter writing.

Rounding out a weekend of events, the San Francisco Main Library hosts two different lectures in the Koret Auditorium.  I will be participating in the lecture titled "Artistamps and Their Makers: Seeing the World in Miniature" will feature artists working in the field of faux philatelics, also known as "artistamps". The work of James Cline (Founding Postmaster, Black Rock City Post Office), James Felter (Postes Mraur), Harley (Terra Candella), and me, Ginny Lloyd (Gina Lotta Post Artistamp Museum) will be highlighted. The lecture will be moderated by correspondence artist and Ex Postal Facto organizer Jennie Hinchcliff.

The previous panel of the day, titled "A Brief History of West Coast Mail Art" will feature speakers Lowell Darling (visual/conceptual artist), Leslie Caldera of Los Angeles (correspondence artist), Carl Chew of Seattle (artistamp maker) and Anna Banana of Canada (artistamp maker). The panel will be moderated by SF writer and visual artist John Held Jr


For more information on the Ex Postal Facto 2014 conference, please visit ex Postal Facto

Wednesday, May 12, 2010