Would you pay for $46.95 for a page cut from a magazine? Here’s a vendor who thinks someone will.

We’re always looking for photographs by the studio of C.C. Pierce and spotted this item on EBay. But, hullo, what’s this? “Please note there is print on the reverse.”  Sounds like a magazine! A quick check of Google books reveals that this is Page 195 of the Pacific Monthly, Volume 24 (1910). And frankly, you could probably buy the whole volume for that kind of money – if you were patient about finding a copy.

The Daily Mirror deplores the vandalism of books and magazines by collectibles dealers – or anyone else. It is an abomination.