The poem reads as follows: He bangs his wings on the table! - Still no service! - What's the matter with that waiter! - Wow! Smell that roast biff! - Ah! he takes out a stick of dynamite - Brr-ump! That should teach them! - But nothing happens! - Of course, obviously, the dynamite of an angel that size - Does not (unfortunately) pack very much of a wallop. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image is a Scottish sailing ship and the caption refers to Joseph Viala or Bara, there is confusion about the names. He was the little drummer boy who during the French Revolution when ordered to call "Vive le Roi" called "Vive la Rupublique and was shot. In 1794 J-L David painted "Death of Viala (Bara?). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Depicts a sail boat with the tip of its mast in juxtaposition with the horizon like sewing the horizon as it sails. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poems are parodies of events or art. For example, in the illustration depicted in this record, Finlay & Hincks modified Gris cubist portrait of the art dealer, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler to a cubist portrait of a pipe-smoking snowman and captioned the work, Daniel-Henry Snowman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The card is shaped like an arrow and has been made from marbled paper, a pun on the poem printed along an inside fold, "The Marble Arrow Always Hits Its Mark!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The title has been inscribed on a guillotine blade and underneath it the inscription "Death to the Strathclyde Region" is inscribed on the black background, a reference to Finlay's dispute with the local tax collectors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The picture poem depicted on this card contrasts the Spanish hat form as the shape of a ship with overflying airplanes to a hat providing protection from overflying insects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Miriam was the wife of Kenneth Patchen. The background of this print was handcolored by Kenneth Pathchen.The text reads," Before the girl picking field daisies - Becomes the girl picking field daisies - There is a moment of some complexity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Miriam was the wife of Kenneth Patchen. The background of this print was hand colored by Kenneth Pathchen. The text reads, " Before the girl picking field daiseis - Becomes the girl picking field daisies - There is a moment of some complexity" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poems date from 1955 and were printed in the portfolio, Glory Never Guesses 1955. The paper stock in this book differs from the paper used in their first publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is an attack on the National Trust for regarding Finlay's sculptural garden as an architectural folly. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each leaf of the fan depicts the same atomic explosion and a single word caption. The words form the following sentence, "This is only a test." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each leaf of the fan depicts the same atomic explosion and a single word caption. The words form the following sentence, "This is only a test." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A beautifully rendered drawing of a rain storm seen through a double window. The view is probably from the Furnivals' English house. Part of a series of eight prints in collaboration with Jonathan Williams, "St Swithin's Swivet." This print is depicted on page 44 of Furnival's book "The Locative-Vocative Cases" (2012). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The photograph on this card by Diane Tammes was taken for Finlay's "A Mast of Hankies." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poems in this book deal with old sailing boat events. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.