Finlay writes about the World War II Battle of Midway4 June 1942 in poetic terms, viz., ...the great sea hives/consumed with their choicest swarms by their own flaming honey. The bee symbol is used to suggest the sea (bee) and hive symbolizing the aircraft carriers. The text is hand written and served as preparatory texts for a subsequently realized print that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The card mentions that the poem was part of the series 'Epicurus at Chatou.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This card also served as an invitation to a private viewing of "A Pittenweem Fancy" by Finlay at Kellie Lodging during the Royal Burgh of Pittenweem Arts Festival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The two facing poems, based upon a calligram of Apollinaire, have the shape of trees but their French texts differ. One poem deals with Victor Hugo and the other has an obscure meaning. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a publication of Zona. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The drawings consist of the same phrase appears with slightly different calligraphic styles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work was presumably for a unique piece. The seven drawings were mounted on one sheet of paper and the two drawings on another sheet of paper. They consist of slightly different calligraphic styles for these two words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The word "Schiff," signifying ship, is printed in stylized calligraphy to resemble the shape of a ship and its reflection in the water. Indexbooks WEB 2011: "One of an edition of 350 signed numbered copies, printed by PKM studios, of a 2 x 12 inch lithographed triple foldout thin card strip with the word "Schiff" in a typeface so that the symmetrical upside down repeat, i.e., reflection, of itself makes for a reflection of itself (as if it were a ship). That's metonymy? Part for whole? Nah. More like metaphor, the word for the thing, i.e., substitution." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The word "Schiff," signifying ship, is printed in stylized calligraphy to resemble the shape of a ship and its reflection in the water. ndexbooks WEB 2011: "One of an edition of 350 signed numbered copies, printed by PKM studios, of a 2 x 12 inch lithographed triple foldout thin card strip with the word "Schiff" in a typeface so that the symmetrical upside down repeat, i.e., reflection, of itself makes for a reflection of itself (as if it were a ship). That's metonymy? Part for whole? Nah. More like metaphor, the word for the thing, i.e., substitution." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image depicts a random arrangement of ship's identification numbers placed within a fraction of a circular shape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image depicts a random arrangement of ship's numbers placed within a circular shape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image depicts a random arrangement of ship's identification numbers placed within a circular shape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.