The card showed a fireplace with a set of andirons whose front looked a bit like juggling clubs. Over a period of years, the quantity of commercial cards having a juggling theme may surprise you. Another field is the collecting of cartoons. Again it is surprising to find how many cartoonists use juggling themes fairly often over the years. By watching the comic strips and magazine cartoons you can create a very interesting collection, and one which portrays the layman's view of jugglers.
Most cartoonists draw a juggling club that more closely resembles a bowling pin.
Exceptions are such juggler-artists as Phil Berube, Kirk Stiles, Joe Marsh, or George DeMott. Still another challenging field is the collection of similes, metaphors and humorous stories. To illustrate, the following is a story usually told about actors but could apply equally well to jugglers. A troupe of jugglers was stranded and trying to reach the next river town but had no money or means of transportation. Finally they talked the captain of a river scow carrying a load of garbage into giving them a lift.