The Only Good Artist is a Dead Artist Gallery

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The Only Good Artist is a Dead Artist Gallery Historical art, games, barware, smoking, lab glass, medical, religious, post mortem, rare books & mags

Featuring in 2022: Fine 1920's Italian travel posters/ Hotel DelMonte/ Pebble Beach Lodge/ Vintage Carmel Art Association sculpture and works on paper/ Avant Guarde San Francisco artists/1800's era games/1936 Wurlitzer

10/06/2026

Interested in something? Call 831-402-0801 . We ship anywhere!

We always carry decapitated dolls. This one is Victorian with wax eye whatever you call it and glass irises. Location: i...
10/06/2026

We always carry decapitated dolls. This one is Victorian with wax eye whatever you call it and glass irises. Location: in S-1

more ideas for eyeballs! We always carry them- $15.50 each Location F2
07/19/2026

more ideas for eyeballs! We always carry them- $15.50 each Location F2

04/24/2026

THE WORST YEAR TO BE ALIVE-
If you’re ever despairing about the state of the world, you can — at least, according to some scholars — be thankful it’s not the year 536 CE. To be fair, it’s medieval scholars, not 21st-century ones, who called 536 CE the worst year to be alive. But hear them out, because it sounds pretty bad. That year, a massive volcano erupted, historians believe, filling the air with volcanic ash. Of course, the majority of people affected by the disaster had no idea what was happening — they just knew it was very suddenly very dark for a very long time. The sun didn’t shine in Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia for 18 whole months — or as the Byzantine historian Procopius put it, “The sun gave forth its light without brightness, like the moon, during the whole year.” That summer, temperatures dropped more than 30 degrees in parts of Europe and Asia (it even snowed in China), so crops failed, leading to widespread famine, starvation, and economic stagnation. Many people who were literate wrote about this at the time — the sun disappeared overnight, after all — but academics didn’t take the accounts seriously until the late 20th century. In 1983, a volcanic eruption was theorized to be the source of the darkness, and researchers examining tree rings in Ireland in the 1990s noted a severe temperature drop occurred in the sixth century. In 2018, researchers published a study pointing to a volcano as the likely culprit after analyzing ice cores drilled from glaciers. Historian Michael McCormick told Science that 536 CE wasn’t just the worst year up until then, but “the beginning of one of the worst periods to be alive.” The climate still hadn’t recovered five years later when the first bubonic plague broke out, wiping out up to half the population of the Eastern Roman Empire. Two more eruptions in the 540s certainly didn’t help matters, either. The Late Antique Little Ice Age, as the period is known, lasted more than a century, clearing up between 660 CE and 680 CE, depending on the location.

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471 Wave Street, Cannery Row Antique Mall , Suite 117 (F-2)
Monterey, CA
93940

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Monday 10am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 10am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 10am - 5:30pm
Thursday 10am - 5:30pm
Friday 10am - 5:30pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm

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