Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

[tonyb]

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I got this from a flea market back in the late 80s. Paid $100 for it and an old Montgomery-Ward arch top guitar, which I also still have.

The show he didn’t quite make on account of his appointment with Bony Fingers.

That’s quite the piece of history, and Americana.

 

[tonyb]

^^^^^
I just made a search of other known survivors. Didn’t see another of yours (is it more like a flier than a poster, maybe? What’s the dimensions?), but saw that a different poster promoting that show recently sold for $150K, which doesn’t shock me, considering its cultural and historical significance.

 

[dh66]

^^^^^
I just made a search of other known survivors. Didn’t see another of yours (is it more like a flier than a poster, maybe? What’s the dimensions?), but saw that a different poster promoting that show recently sold for $150K, which doesn’t shock me, considering its cultural and historical significance.

Holy $#!+.....that's insane. I don't know anything about the provenance of this piece. It's an oddball size, 16"× 19". I suppose someone at some point could've trimmed off a damaged portion. It's been attached to a piece of cardboard and it has creases in it where it was folded up at some point.

I have only seen one other like it. That one is hanging in the Hank Williams museum down in Montgomery.

 

[GHT]

RMS Titanic, the letters rms mean Royal Mail Ship.
Royal Mail Ship (sometimes Steam-ship or Steamer), usually seen in its abbreviated form RMS, is the ship prefix used for seagoing vessels that carry mail under contract to the British Royal Mail. The designation dates back to 1840.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Found this in a since-defunct vintage shop at least 10 years ago. I had long known of Hardeman (the building that had been its manufacturing plant still stands), but prior to coming across this I hadn’t known of their retail stores.

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The background pattern reminds me of the atomic amoeba pattern popular in the 1960's.

 

[GHT]

The first "Express d'Orient," left Paris in October 1883. It was a normal scheduled EuroNight express, run by the Austrian national railways (ÖBB), and you could travel on it with normal tickets including Interrail and Eurail passes. It left Paris every evening at 17:16 and arrived in Vienna at 08:30 next morning.

 

[GHT]

Post-Impressionist painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is renowned for his expressive interpretations of turn-of-the-century Paris. Fascinated by the capital city's colourful nightlife, the French artist created a collection of 363 posters featuring Paris' most popular cafés, cabarets, and entertainers.
Admired for their bold graphics, vivid color palettes, and focus on the figure, these designs simultaneously served as advertisements and attracted collectors, blurring the line between mass produced prints and fine art.

 

[tonyb]

Holy $#!+.....that's insane. I don't know anything about the provenance of this piece. It's an oddball size, 16"× 19". I suppose someone at some point could've trimmed off a damaged portion. It's been attached to a piece of cardboard and it has creases in it where it was folded up at some point.

I have only seen one other like it. That one is hanging in the Hank Williams museum down in Montgomery.

It’s likely worth quite a bit.

 

[tonyb]

The background pattern reminds me of the atomic amoeba pattern popular in the 1960's.

Formica Skylark, a Brooks Stevens design from the ’50s. We put it in — what? — three years ago? Four?

 

[dh66]

It’s likely worth quite a bit.

One can only hope. I can tell you one thing for certain, though, that if someone offered me 150 large it would change hands with a quickness.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Formica Skylark, a Brooks Stevens design from the ’50s. We put it in — what? — three years ago? Four?

I always like the atomic amoeba patterns & the Sputnik patterns. Liked that Sputnik chandelier Dale got a while back.

 

[GHT]

I always like the atomic amoeba patterns & the Sputnik patterns. Liked that Sputnik chandelier Dale got a while back.

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That dress looks corona inspired

 

[tonyb]

Holy $#!+.....that's insane. I don't know anything about the provenance of this piece. It's an oddball size, 16"× 19". I suppose someone at some point could've trimmed off a damaged portion. It's been attached to a piece of cardboard and it has creases in it where it was folded up at some point.

I have only seen one other like it. That one is hanging in the Hank Williams museum down in Montgomery.

Did a bit more looking into it. You may wish to check out Hatch Show Print in Nashville. These were inexpensively produced prints, used to promote numerous shows on concert tours, with differing particulars as to dates and locations. The New Year's Day 1953 version is exceptionally desirable, of course.

 

[St.Ignatz]

Picked up a few of these in the 80's from a coin shop where the Pennsylvania Convention Center is now in down town Philadelphia.

Only thing missing is the actual calendar.

 

[tonyb]

I referenced this framed print of FDR in the “Thrift Store Finds” thread some time back, seeing how I found it (and a little easel I display it upon) in a thrift shop.

I suspect it was a gas station giveaway (note “Courtesy Associated Oil Company” in lower left), perhaps on the occasion of FDR’s death.

 

[St.Ignatz]

For desk.

 

[tonyb]

Fruit crate labels can be had cheap. Not all of them, of course, but most aren’t particularly scarce. This one allegedly dates c.1940.

I also happen to have a few vintage fruit crates, which are cool in their own way and still ephemeral by definition (they weren’t really made to last), but not made of paper, so I figure they don’t belong in this thread.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

The first time I worked in Cheyenne, WY while there I got interested in Cheyenne Frontier Days & the Cheyenne Rodeo. I started a collection of rodeo posters & especially prison rodeo posters. Before long I was buying poster collections where I could just to get one or two I wanted. Over time back home I sold the odds & ends to a woman who owned an interior decorating shop & did some decorating for clients she had. She would mat, frame & sell what she bought from me. I still have a few odds leftover.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Out of some of the poster & ephemeral collections I bought I came up with these three unusual pcs. Don't know why I've kept them back other than I always thought this kind of information gets lost over time. These are the only ones I've ever seen.


Copyright/Printing 1969 -- Cooper Enterprises

Copyright/Printing 1971 -- Cooper Graphics

Copyright/Printing 1977 -- The Paper Mill

Last of the pics I have taken, so I'll leave it at that.

 

[tonyb]

The first time I worked in Cheyenne, WY while there I got interested in Cheyenne Frontier Days & the Cheyenne Rodeo. I started a collection of rodeo posters & especially prison rodeo posters. Before long I was buying poster collections where I could just to get one or two I wanted. Over time back home I sold the odds & ends to a woman who owned an interior decorating shop & did some decorating for clients she had. She would mat, frame & sell what she bought from me. I still have a few odds leftover.
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It’s nice to have the space for storing the stuff you really don’t want for your own use but is still too precious to throw away. I have 50 old crate labels coming, (paid all of 50 cents apiece) and I certainly don’t plan on displaying more than a couple-three of them. I expect that someone on some distant day will be happy to have them. An interior decorator, maybe?

I’ve bought straw hats that don’t fit mostly to spare them the abuses of the vintage store shoppers. You can bet they’ll grab ’em by the crown and try to force those too-small hats onto their heads. The hats lasted a good 60 or 70 years or more in good condition but two weeks in a vintage shop will do ’em in.