F0113 - Susan Swan fonds |
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(1) | Notebooks, including Can Lit class notes | 1970-1973 | |
(2) | Notebooks, "May: novel rewrite 1 (Biggest Mod. Woman)"; "July: novel rewrite 2; "August: novel rewrite 3; "Fall: novel rewrite 4"; "Business of Novel" | 1980 | ||
(3) | Notebooks, "Spring rewrite", "Budget" | 1981 | ||
(4) | Notebooks, Feb, April, July, "Aug: final Annie revisions" | 1982 | ||
(5) | Notebooks, May 4, May 21, Aug 20, Oct 25 (Last of the Golden Girls) | 1983 | ||
(6) | Notebooks, 1984: "Rewrites: second notebook", "winter notebook: 84-85" | 1984-1985 | ||
Call Number: 1995-030/002 |
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(1) | Notebooks, "winter/spring", "spring", "summer", "fall" | 1985 | ||
(2) | Notebooks, "Binder 1-novel: starts March 27", "Binder 2-novel: July/August", "Novel-3: Aug-Nov" | 1986 | ||
(3) | Notebooks, "Spring notes on novel", "Oct 20th", "Nov" | 1986 | ||
(4) | Notebook | 1987 | ||
(5) | Notebooks, "Nov: workbook", random notebook | 1987 | ||
(6) | Notebooks, "Jan 10" "Jan-Feb 10", "Feb 29- May 20", "Aug 12", "Oct 8" | 1988 | ||
(7) | Notebooks, "Oct 8-Nov 11", "Nov 11", "Dec 88". | 1988 | ||
Call Number: 1995-030/003 |
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(1) | Notebooks, "April" | 1989 | ||
(2) | Notebooks, Biggest Modern Woman | |||
(3) | Notebooks, Biggest Modern Woman | |||
(4) | Notebooks, Biggest Modern Woman | |||
(5) | Notebooks, Golden Girls | |||
(6) | Notebooks, Golden Girls | |||
(7) | Notebooks, ideas, scribblings, etc. | |||
Call Number: 1995-030/004 |
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(1) | Correspondence, early 1960's, Havergal (girls) College: Christmas, and Valentine's | ||
(2) | Havergal con't: letters from friends (primarily girls), family | |||
(3) | Havergal con't: letters from boys | |||
(4) | Havergal con't: letters from mother | |||
(5) | Havergal: phone messages, sermons, ski membership, school work, "society page" clipping | Includes 3 photographs : b&w. | ||
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(6) | Academic: material for course taught in multidisciplinary studies at York University | ||
(7) | Academic: Creative writing program, York University | |||
(8) | Academic: "writing the essay" | |||
(9) | Academic: "Eating your words", a project for secondary school students | |||
(10) | "Eating your words" cont'd | |||
(11) | Academic: Teaching proposals, and letters of response re: teaching creative writing | |||
(12) | Academic: "Kafka handout" (poems and stories re: insects). | |||
(13) | Academic: Grammar and composition info | |||
Call Number: 1995-030/005 |
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Printed Material and Manuscript Drafts |
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(1) | Royal Family Scrapbook of newspaper clippings | ||
(2) | Articles by Swan for "The McGill Scene", late 1960's | |||
(3) | Toronto Telegram "exclusive" on modern teachers | |||
(4) | Articles by Swan for The Toronto Telegram | |||
(5) | Article on journalist Frank Tumpane, following his death. Also notes from Tumpane to Swan | |||
(6) | The Globe and Mail, section 2, "War's over". | May 8th, 1945 | ||
(7) | Back issues of Time, Life, Macleans, etc, dealing with social events of 1960's (Kennedy, student unrest, etc.) | |||
Call Number: 1995-030/006 |
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(1) | Short Story: "The Tallest Man in the World" | |||
(2) | Research: Tallest Man | |||
(3) | Tallest Man: comments, revisions | |||
(4) | Tallest Man: Revisions, working copies | |||
(5) | Tallest Man: notes, clippings, revisions | |||
(6) | Tallest Man, "Saint Kim", "The Man Doll" | |||
(7) | Tallest Man: notes | |||
(8) | Tallest Man: revisions | |||
(9) | Saint Kim: revisions | |||
(10) | "A Guest on the Property" | |||
(11) | Saint Kim, The Man Doll, "Jackie the Ripper", Dubarry, "Bill and Jane" (Tallest Man) | |||
(12) | Saint Kim, revisions, notes | |||
(13) | Man Doll Sheets from Press Porcepic | 8 August 1988 | ||
(14) | "Canadian Men": research, rough drafts | |||
Call Number: 1995-030/007 |
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(1) | "Queen of the Silver Blades": programs, notes, plus photos: 12 b&w, 1 | |||
(2) | "Momz Radio" | |||
(3) | Script: "The Collaberators: Good-bye Bareasss Beach" | |||
(4) | Articles on collaborative performance art with Louise Garfield | |||
(5) | Article, info on "The Clichettess" | |||
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(6) | Manuscript with notes and revisions for play version of Biggest Modern Woman | ||
(7) | Notes and revisions of play version of Biggest Modern Woman | |||
(8) | "Flow charts" of action of play version of Biggest Modern Woman | |||
(9) | Notes on play version of Biggest Modern Woman | |||
(10) | Notes and revisions on play vers. cont'd | |||
(11) | Unpublished spy novel, plus notes, revisions, notebooks | |||
(12) | "The Sixties" | |||
Call Number: 1995-030/008 |
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(1) | Published short stories: "The Men", "The Life and Times of Theresa Turkey". Plus list of unpublished stories | |||
(2) | Short stories: "The Waterbed Syndrome", "The Pick-up". | |||
(3) | Short story: "Norway: Undiscovered home of cross-country skiing". | |||
(4) | Short stories: "And they lived happily ever after", "No middle ground", "The eclipse of a golden girl" | |||
(5) | "Unfit for Paradise": Christopher Dingle edition, receipts, financial info | [ca. 1981] | ||
(6) | Unfit: receipts, purchase orders, etc. | |||
(7) | Unfit: reviews, promotional material | |||
(8) | Unfit: notes, play proposal, promo beget, correspondence | |||
(9) | Unfit: banking documents | |||
(10) | Unfit: working copies, revisions | |||
(11) | Unfit: copies | |||
(12) | Unfit: revisions | |||
(13) | Unfit: revisions | |||
Call Number: 1995-030/009 |
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(1) | Unfit: publicity arrangements | |||
(2) | Unfit: press kit, and Margaret Dragu press info | |||
(3) | Unfit: promotion, business diary, correspondence, bills, promotion list | |||
(4) | Unfit: mail for CJ Dingle edition | |||
(5) | Unfit: rough drafts | |||
(6) | Unfit: rough drafts with revisions and notes | |||
(7) | Unfit: rough notes, research | |||
(8) | Unfit: revisions of "Young and Gay" | |||
(9) | Unfit: National Library of Canada info and correspondence | |||
(10) | Unfit: rough drafts with revisions and notes | |||
(11) | Unfit: rough drafts with revisions and notes | |||
(12) | Unfit: reviews | |||
(13) | Unfit: research | |||
(14) | Unfit: promo info, cover proofs | |||
Call Number: 1995-030/010 |
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(1) | Biggest Modern Woman: fourth draft | |||
(2) | BMW: reviews | |||
(3) | BMW: research on women's period costume and etiquette | BAD PAPER | ||
(4) | BMW: research on "Gigantic and Miniscule Actors on the Nineteenth-Century Stage" | BAD PAPER | ||
(5) | BMW: rough draft with revisions | |||
(6) | BMW: research on Halifax and Maritimes | |||
(7) | BMW: notes on novel, part three, and research | |||
(8) | BMW: notes on childhood part of novel | |||
(9) | BMW: research on period tonics and remedies | |||
(10) | BMW: research and correspondence on Anna's potential medical condition | |||
(11) | BMW: research on Seville, incl. oral histories | |||
Call Number: 1995-030/011 |
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(1) | BMW: correspondence for novel | |||
(2) | BMW: research on Barnum | |||
(3) | BMW: editing | |||
(4) | BMW: 1 b&w photo of Guillermo's "Giantess" | |||
(5) | BMW: "New part 4" | August 1982 | BAD PAPER | |
(6) | BMW: third draft of novel | |||
(7) | BMW: notes on "final rewrite" | |||
(8) | BMW: very rough draft | SOME BAD PAPER | ||
(9) | BMW: epilogue research and medical notes | |||
(10) | BMW: research including maps of the U.K., Swan genealogy, farming, tonics, Seville | |||
Call Number: 1995-030/012 |
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(1) | BMW: research incl. England, diabetes | |||
(2) | BMW: notes, research | |||
(3) | BMW: rewrite, part one | 1982 | ||
(4) | BMW: second draft | |||
(5) | BMW: research incl. 1 colour photo of Annie's tombstone, info on Trinity Church, St. Paul's Chapel", and a copy of "The World's Tallest Couple: The Love Giants". | |||
(6) | BMW: research on period setting (Dickens excerpts). | |||
(7) | BMW: research on "freaks", Ohio, letters, questions, themes, sub-themes, central metaphors, novel outline, clippings on Bates festival with correspondence and mention of Swan family attendance | |||
Call Number: 1995-030/013 |
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Biggest Modern Woman |
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(1) | BMW: novel outline and excerpts | ||
(2) | BMW: rough drafts | |||
(3) | BMW: first draft duplicates | |||
(4) | BMW: giants calendar | |||
(5) | BMW: research incl. black and white postcard of Anna's tombstone, and "Giant: The Pictorial History of the Human Colossus" | |||
(6) | BMW: part 4 revisions | September 1982 | ***LOTS OF POST-IT NOTES ATTACHED TO FOLDER*** | |
(7) | BMW: "scholarly articles" on BMW, and student seminar | |||
(8) | BMW: fourth draft corrections | |||
(9) | BMW: research "Giant Anna", a children's play by Donna E. Smyth | |||
(10) | BMW: rough drafts | |||
(11) | BMW: rough draft | ***MAJOR POST-IT NOTES ON EVERY PAGE*** | ||
Call Number: 1995-030/014 |
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(1) | BMW: rough drafts | |||
(2) | BMW: duplicates of Aug 1982 inserts | |||
(3) | BMW: rewrite discards Dec. 80-81 | |||
(4) | BMW: rewrites | |||
Call Number: 1995-030/015 |
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(1) | BMW: manuscript | |||
(2) | BMW: excerpts, research on early toilets and plumbing, Seville, farming, tobacco, gambling | |||
(3) | BMW: research re: strongman Louis Cyr | |||
(4) | BMW: notes, research on Seville | |||
(5) | BMW: research incl. Barnum, military costume, circuses | |||
(6) | BMW: research re: early England | |||
(7) | BMW: rewrite | ***WITH POST-ITS*** | ||
Call Number: 1995-030/016 |
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The Last of The Golden Girls |
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(1) | The Last of The Golden Girls: new draft, 1984, plus map of Georgian Bay | ||
(2) | GG: cottage info, Haliburton | |||
(3) | GG: "new copy, part one" | April 1989 | ||
(4) | GG: "notes for Saturday" incl. research on insects, blondes, nuclear bombs, karma, reptiles, beauty | |||
(5) | GG: sailing race details with map | |||
(6) | GG: research incl. hallucinogens, pianos | |||
(7) | GG: "pick-up in boat" rough notes | |||
(8) | GG: "notes for Sunday" incl. research and notes on underwater survival, nuclear destruction | |||
(9) | GG: early duplicates of part one with notes | |||
(10) | GG: incomplete manuscript: The Last of The Golden Girls | |||
(11) | GG: incomplete con't | |||
(12) | GG: gov't grant info | |||
Call Number: 1995-030/017 |
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(1) | GG: early notes | |||
(2) | GG: "very very old dupes of novel and not quite so old" | |||
(3) | GG: "ze novel part two, new section, 1986" | |||
(4) | GG: rough draft | |||
(5) | GG: "1988 revised draft, Sept", part one | |||
(6) | GG: part two | |||
Call Number: 1995-030/018 |
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(1) | GG and BMW: promotion of novel, correspondence with literary agents, resume | |||
(2) | GG and BMW: financial correspondence, contracts, and publisher's statements | |||
(3) | GG: rough drafts with revisions, Aug 8, Aug 13, Aug 24, and Sept 10 1987 | 1987 | ||
(4) | GG: early beginnings | |||
(5) | GG: notes from March 1989, research, correspondence re: BMW film rights | |||
(6) | GG: revisions, fall 1988 | |||
(7) | GG: yachting research | |||
(8) | GG: revised copies | 1987 | ||
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(1) | GG: research incl. the rich and blondes | |||
(2) | GG: research on the rich | |||
(3) | GG: "Shelly's file" | |||
(4) | GG: research on the rich | |||
(5) | GG: "old Friday night" with revisions | 10 September 1987 | ||
(6) | GG: research on business tycoons | |||
(7) | GG: research incl. blondes, sex appeal, Jane Fonda, soft porn | |||
(8) | GG: rough draft with revisions, part one | |||
(9) | GG: part two | |||
(10) | GG: rough draft with revisions | |||
Call Number: 1995-030/020 |
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(1) | GG: rough draft with revisions | |||
(2) | GG: uncorrected draft, part one | |||
(3) | GG: draft with revisions, part one | |||
(4) | GG: schoolbook of Latin poetry (see opening poem of novel) | |||
(5) | GG: research incl. cottaging, period film making, boating | |||
(6) | GG: research on boats | |||
(7) | GG: rough draft, part one | |||
(8) | GG: research on business tycoons (Conrad Black), dhotis, and notes | |||
(9) | GG: rough draft with revisions, part two | |||
(10) | GG: "more flushed out version of island", excerpts with notes | |||
(11) | GG: drawings of underwater dome, flow charts of action of various scenes | |||
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(1) | GG: revised copy went to typist | September 1987 | ||
(2) | GG: rev. copy con't | |||
(3) | GG: draft with notes | |||
(4) | GG: draft con't | |||
(5) | GG: "old draft part two" | |||
(6) | GG: "dupes spring 1987" | |||
(7) | GG: "not quite as old dupes", excerpts with revisions | |||
(8) | GG: "excerpts from old drafts" | |||
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(1) | GG: flow charts, notes and research incl. swimming, music, business, film, religion, drugs, reptiles, plus select Havergal correspondence | ***BAD PAPER*** | ||
(2) | GG: "diary background" | |||
(3) | GG: "old flat rock notes" | |||
(4) | GG: "old plot outlines" | |||
(5) | GG: "notes on novel end" | |||
(6) | GG: "extra copies part two", drafts | |||
(7) | GG: drafts | |||
(8) | GG: "not quite as old" drafts with revisions | |||
(9) | GG: research on Georgian Bay, excerpts with revisions | |||
(10) | GG: research incl. Jesuit missionaries, nuclear destruction plus, Jan 87, part one notes, revisions" | |||
(11) | GG: snake research (Norman Elder, partial source for Child) | |||
(12) | GG: excerpts | June 1987 | ||
(13) | GG: research incl. Mohawks, industry, yaks, swimming, toy soldiers, Margot Kidder | |||
(14) | GG: "notes on entrepreneurs" | |||
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(1) | GG: "extra copies of spring revisions 1988" | 1988 | ||
(2) | GG: excerpts from part two with revisions | |||
(3) | GG: excerpts from part two, | 13 August 1987 | ||
(4) | GG: draft | November 1987 | ||
(5) | GG: excerpts from part two | |||
(6) | GG: part one | 10 September 1987 | ||
(7) | GG: draft, part two | June 1987 | ||
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(1) | GG: research, copies of Friday and Saturday's paper for part two | ***BAD PAPER** | ||
(2) | GG: research, yachting, racing | |||
(3) | GG: The "horsebook" which Dinger's is based upon | |||
(4) | GG: The "erotic" childhood stories which Digger's are based on, as well as select inspirational correspondence from Havergal College | |||
(5) | GG: "extra copy, part one" with ***POST-IT NOTES*** | |||
(6) | GG: "discards of spring 1986". | |||
(7) | GG: "part one, complete Sept 1988, extra copy". | |||
(8) | GG: swami research | |||
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(1) | GG: Scrapbook of poetry beginning Oct. 1971, incl. poems incl. in Golden Girls | |||
(2) | GG: research on boat race, blood brothers, '50's morality | |||
(3) | GG: "ze novel, part one, new section, 1985" | |||
(4) | GG: "copy of novel, Sept, 1988" with revisions | |||
(5) | GG: second half | |||
(6) | GG: part two | |||
(7) | GG: "extra copies, part two?" | |||
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(1) | GG: excerpts, some material dated June 1987 | |||
(2) | GG: excerpts | |||
(3) | GG: part two with revisions | |||
(4) | GG: novel, part one with portions of part two dated November, 1987 | |||
(5) | GG: excerpts | 9 October 1987 | ||
(6) | GG: part two, transcription of tapes | |||
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(1) | GG: Contract for sale of Golden Girls, some select reviews and correspondence re: publication, 3 colour photos for cover ideas | Includes 3 photographs : col. | ||
(2) | GG: notes on excerpt | |||
(3) | GG: bound "ripped out copy" | |||
(4) | GG: bound revised copy | |||
(5) | GG: part two, revised plus notes | |||
(6) | GG: "Duplicates from revisions for Katherine", with revision notes | |||
(7) | GG: "ze novel, part one, spring 1987", an "uncorrected draft". Sections of part two included | |||
(8) | GG: "the wrong size of type, but it's in part two, twenty pages" | March 1987 | ||
(9) | GG: "duplicates for part one revision, spring 1987" | |||
(10) | GG: "part two- corrected and uncorrected drafts for Ann", with notes. | ****POST-IT NOTES TOO*** | ||
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(1) | 3 b&w photos of Swan with cornrows, and one page that looks like an excerpt from "The Wives of Bath" | ||
(2) | Internal memo from Coach House press re: upcoming Spring List | 14 August 1990 | ||
(3) | Academic info and policies re: York university | |||
(4) | "Forms of Enclosure", University of Windsor art show: program, reviews, background info and twenty-three colour slides | |||
(5) | Canada Council grant correspondence (Biggest Modern Woman). | |||
(6) | Canada Council grant correspondence (The Wives of Bath). | |||
(7) | Articles by Swan on John Candy, Moses Znaimer, and The Clichettes | |||
(8) | Journalism research and drafts for the Toronto Telegram re: the Thorncliffe apts | |||
(9) | Journalism notes for Toronto Telegram on Mrs. Fenny | |||
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(1) | Newspaper clippings re: literary events, review of Biggest Modern Woman, and interesting article on Swan | |||
(2) | 2 photos of Margaret Dragu, five of Swan on bicycle taken for Toronto Telegram article run July 31, 1969, 3 "art" photos (one of Swan), one proof sheet of publicity photos of Swan (probably or Biggest Modern Woman), all black and white | |||
(3) | Letter to ed., Macleans, and accompanying rebuttal with correspondence, reviews by Swan, posters for Canadian Poetry Annual | |||
(4) | "prose etiquette" (probably from "Eating your words). | |||
(5) | Business letter writing | |||
(6) | Two black and white proof sheets of Swan (early to mid eighties) | |||
(7) | Resume (1976), article re: Queen of the Silver Blades, psychology info re: signification et al, "Eating your words" | ***BAD CARBON PAPER**, | ||
(8) | Musings on Canadian poetry, research, correspondence | [ca. 1974] | ||
(9) | Canadian Poetry Research | |||
(10) | Notes on "Hollywood North" screenplay, page of creative writing | |||
(11) | "Girl Art": notebook research and correspondence from interdisciplinary studies, incl. tape of Ann Magnsun's performance art piece. | ***BAD PAPER*** | ||
(12) | Academic: Notes for 1988 English class, Larry Streicher's thesis material, info on conceptual art | |||
(13) | Arts publications: Vane (8.1), Dance in Canada (Spring 1976), Im(pul)se (1973), Existere (8.3, 8.). Pamphlets from Detroit Institute of Arts (Swan/Garfield collaboration). Posters: video art at the National Gallery,AGO experimental film | |||
(14) | York Calendar: Humanities and Social Science, 1989-90 | |||
(15) | "Journalism bag of tricks: a day in the life of, lead story, human interest, colour story, editorial" | |||
(16) | Arts Journal: The Unknown:writings by Ontario women (1975), includes Swan's short story "The Waterbed" | |||
(17) | Reviews of performance art with Garfield, and clippings on Dragu | |||
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(1) | Toronto Telegram notes and draft: Geneva Park drug workshop | |||
(2) | Toronto Telegram draft: "Spiral: Man-time, time man" | |||
(3) | "Whitten's History of the World" | |||
(4) | Art Publications: Im(pul)se (4.1), image nation, asparagus (1973), An Even Dozen Poem (1974), Background to literary readings 2 (1973), Linda (1974), primal elegis (1974), background to literary readings (1973), porcepic, Invisible wods (1974), 2 o'clock rap (volume 2) | |||
(5) | Art Publications: The orange bear reader, runes (1970), (f.)lip (1987), cafe terminus, scene changes, file (autumn 1975), artcle from Telegram on CHUM and CKFH | |||
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(1) | Posters (3 copies) - Unfit For Paradise | [after 1981] | Oversize | |
(2) | Newspapers & Circus ads | 1851-1934 | Oversize | |
(3) | Le Passee Vivant de Montreal / The Living Past of Montreal | 1964 | Oversize | |
(4) | Posters (3 copies) - Queen of the Silver Blades | [198-?] | Oversize | |
(5) | Photographs of Susan Swan. - 3 photographs : b&w ; 11 x 14 cm. | Oversize |