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Old Still Tin Litho AMSCO SHU-SHINE BANK FOR KIDDIES! - eBay (item 310073654255 end time Aug-12-08 19:01:33 PDT)This vintage bank is in the form of a shoe shine kit. It's made of tin, painted red and has great vintage decals. It says, "Amsco Shu-Shine Bank for Kiddies" and "Kidd-E Shu-Shine Bank by Amsco." The colorful graphics look like art from the late forties.
There's a coin slot on one end where the decal shows two kids' faces, a nickel, dime and penny. It seems to me a bank ought to have a lid or other closure, but I see no evidence of one on this or any other bank like this online. The metal loops on each end were for a red plastic shoulder strap that's now gone.
It's shaped like an old-fashioned shoe shine kit complete with the ridged step handle for resting a customer's foot while getting a shine. I don't know if it originally came with shoe shine gear or not.
Anna Ayers STYLES FOR 1912 Mail Order Hair, Feathers! - eBay (item 310073296048 end time Aug-11-08 18:58:43 PDT)This vintage mail order catalog booklet is called "Styles for 1912" and says, "A Peep Inside Will Make You Beautiful." It came from Mrs. Anna Ayers, Importer and Manufacturer in Chicago, Ill.
This booklet features "Beautifying Requisites, Human Hair Goods, Pure Cosmetics, Toilet Articles, Hair Bleaches, Hair Colorings, Etc. Ostrich Feathers."
Here's a bit of what Anna Ayers said:Clothes may hide defects in physique, but the face, if it is beautiful and crowned with luxuriant hair, wields influence supreme. Mere man is susceptible. A pretty face attracts more than a huge bank account, and for hundreds of years, in fact since the time of Adam and Eve, women's greatest asset in life's battle has been a beautiful face and a crowning mass of beautiful hair.
My service is for those who have not been blessed with the natural charms but who strive to acquire them, and for those who wish to preserve their natural beauty and avoid the ravages of time. By dint of exhaustive study and research I have perfected ways and means that if properly used are certain of success.
The products are presented in drawings, fascinating for their styles, usage and prices. If you love old advertisements, this booklet is a treasure trove.
1953 Geraldine Clyne MISTRESS MARY POP-UP 3-D Rhyme Art - eBay (item 310073294167 end time Aug-11-08 18:50:47 PDT)This vintage pop-up is by Geraldine Clyne, illustrating the children's rhyme Mistress Mary. It's marked, "Mistress Mary, Geraldine Clyne, ©J.S. Pub. Co., New York, U.S.A. Patent Pending." I see no date on it, but it was published in 1953 according to another seller online.
I found the following information at: http://www.popuplady.com/mov-history2.htm Also from New York was Geraldine Clyne who produced the Jolly Jump-up series from the late 1930s to the 1950s. She used fan-folded pop-ups, which are simple accordion, cut-and-folded illustrations. Her subjects ranged from the poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson, to life-styles in the new suburbia, to the imagined frontier of space travel.
1983 DONNA SUMMER STANDEE Waitress She Works Hard Promo - eBay (item 310072774446 end time Aug-09-08 19:20:19 PDT)This Donna Summer standee features the popular singer dressed in a waitress outfit, likely to promote her hit, "She Works Hard For the Money." She's wearing the same outfit in a different pose on the record and CD covers. It says, "Donna Summer on Mercury Records & Tapes."
The fine print at the bottom says, "©1983 Phonogram International. Manufactured and Marketed by Polygram Records, Inc. Printed in U.S.A."
It's made of very stiff paperboard with a fold-out bracket that locks open so she stands upright, almost 19 inches high.
Mirage Press CLARK ASHTON SMITH ORIGINAL by Joe Wehrle! - eBay (item 310071802911 end time Aug-05-08 19:46:17 PDT)This Clark Ashton Smith portrait original was created by Joe Wehrle, Jr. in 1973. It was used in Mirage Press books, as the cover for Planets and Dimensions and as the frontispiece for The Fantastic Art of Clark Ashton Smith. It was recently licensed for Tees from the Crypt which is good to know if you'd like a t-shirt with this portrait on it.
If Joe has done one thing that has been remembered from the 1970s until today, it's this portrait. We have received letters and emails from as far away as Germany, Italy and France about it, sometimes with requests to buy the original. We never intended to let it go, but could use some extra money now, so if anyone is willing to meet our price, it's yours. No reproduction rights are granted with this portrait.
This portrait was drawn with stipple technique, which means that all the tonal areas were built up one dot at a time, and all the tiny background circles were drawn by hand. If memory serves, it took about three weeks of rather intensive work. The bottom corners had to be re-inked at the end, because the ink was worn off during work on the face!
It's done on very heavy plate surface Strathmore illustration board in pen and India ink. The back is relatively clean. The art has been wrapped in vinyl for decades.
Wehrle is noted for work in Galaxy and IF digest science fiction magazines, covers and interior illustrations in Arkham House and other Mirage Press books, illustrations for Burroughs-oriented journals and on a lighter note, the story and drawings in the Big Little Book Cauliflower Catnip.
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