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A colorful page of familiar figures caught my eye when I was paging through the paper this morning. In the “Fanfare” section of Newsday is a 2-page article by Ariella Budick about William Steig (1907-2003), who is most familiar to us at Collecting-Old-Magazines.com from his New Yorker cover illustrations but familiar to many [...]
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I’ve added three early Norman Rockwell advertisements to the Norman Rockwell ads page on the magazine section of the site. The ads, for Jello (shown below) and Romance Chocolates, were found in consecutive issues of Harper’s Monthly magazine from February-April 1923.
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I added a couple of new Photo Identification Guides to the site today –
1939 Mars Confections Trading Cards (includes 17 images)
1936 Ardath Who is This Tobacco Cards (includes images of all 50 cards in the set)
–both will be featured/announced in the next edition of the Movie Profiles & Premiums Newsletter, due out on or [...]
1926 Gallaher “Cinema Stars” Tobacco Cards issued by Gallaher Ltd. out of Belfast & London. 100 card set. Measures 1-1/2″ x 2-1/2″.
1948 Dinkie Grips card from Series 3 covering MGM films. Full cards with unpunctured “grips” area at bottom measure approximately 2-1/8″ X 4-1/4″. Issued out of Birmingham, England by Dinkie Products with ad on back for Dinkie Grips as well as other Dinkie Products (Dinkie Curlers and Wavesetters).
1939 Gallaher “My Favourite Part” Tobacco Cards issued out of London, measuring approximately 1-1/2″ X 2-1/2″.
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