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  • Jap Rose Soap

    2:30 PM PST, 3/18/2016

    Beautiful Art Deco Illustrations adorned many of the old advertisements. Sadly like this one many had no artist credit in the image. I have thousands of Art Deco, Art Nouveau images by greats such as: Maxwell Parish, J.C.Leyendecker Georges Leonnec, George Barbier, Maxwell Parish, George Lepage, Rockwell Kent, Rene Vincent, Anton Seder, Eugene Grasset, Geo Ham and many others to sell. Check out my eBay store artifactgallery. Thanks for having a look.
  • Goldie and Dustie

    12:09 PM PST, 3/18/2016

    The Gold Dust twins. I have several of the vintage ads. I also have 2 Very nice RARE Stone lithographs created by Hawkins and published in 1910 for that advertising campaign. They are reduced down from giant billboard size images. Gold Dust Washing Powder was an all-purpose cleaning agent first introduced in the late 1880s by the Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank's Soap Company based in New York City. Gold Dust was distributed in America by the Lever Brothers Company of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its first regional success was in the Midwestern United States. Gold Dust Washing Powders had been marketed nationally since the mid-1890s, becoming a top-selling national brand by 1903. Gold Dust products were eventually marketed internationally (by Unilever) in Canada and Great Britain. The product lines' bright orange labels all prominently featured the Gold Dust Twins. The Gold Dust Twins, 'Goldie' and 'Dustie', were the 'faces' of the Fairbank's Gold Dust Washing product lines. The original (circa 1892) version of the twins was a standard drawing of two young African-American children cleaning up together in a washtub. On the original containers, they are simply pictured standing side-by-side behind a mound of gold coins, under an arch reading "Fairbank's" and over the "Gold Dust Washing Powder" text. By 1900, the twins had been transformed into a cartoonish pair of caricature, bald, asexual black children shown wearing tutus emblazoned with the words "Gold" and "Dust". On product containers and in advertisements, they were often comically depicted, along with a huge stack of dishes in a washtub, with one twin cleaning, the other drying.[1] The twins became icons following a 1903 national marketing campaign, with the slogan "Let the Twins Do Your Work". They became an easily recognizable trademark found in many, if not most, U.S. homes during the first half of the twentieth century. The Gold Dust Twins were drawn by E.W. Kemble, a staff artist for the Chicago Daily Graphic'.[2] The Twins were featured in print, billboard, specialty advertising and radio advertisements for over sixty years. "The Gold Dust Twins" was the name of a popular radio program which was first broadcast nationally in the US in 1929. Starring Harvey Hindemeyer and Earle Tuckerman as "Goldy" and "Dusty", respectively,[3][4] the show was sponsored by Lever Brothers and Gold Dust Washing Powder. An early example of product tie-ins, the Gold Dust's advertising jingle became the show's theme song. The products (along with Goldie and Dustie) were phased out by the mid-1950s, as national sensibilities began to change. .......From Wikipedia
  • Longest Lasting

    11:36 AM PST, 3/18/2016

    1947 Ford Truck ad. Many more to list! Thanks for looking.
  • Can you hear me now?

    11:12 AM PST, 3/18/2016

    1947 White Motors VAN Telephone Utility Linemen illustrated ad. Another large format advertisement, many more to follow. Thank you for having a look.
  • I had a dump.

    11:04 AM PST, 3/18/2016

    A Big Red Reo Dump Truck Advertisement, if you buy it then, I can say: I had a dump. Thousands of great old truck and car ads to sell!
  • Green, White Truck

    10:39 AM PST, 3/18/2016

    Here is another White motors truck. Shown is green Telephone Utility Truck with Linemen illustrated at work. Many old Car and Truck ads will be posted. Thanks for looking.
  • Red, White truck

    10:16 AM PST, 3/18/2016

    A nice 1947 White Motors Red Semi Gas Tanker full page ad. One of many truck ads I am posting.
  • Old is New

    10:55 AM PST, 3/16/2016

    This is a lot of 13 mostly pre 1930 Radio ads. There are a couple of Victor Red Seal Record ads. Also two from 1945&1954. Great Art Deco images. I will be selling a large collection of Paper items off over the next year, thousands of items and many lots will be posted. All Original, Antique Maps, Science prints, Nature prints, Topographical, Religious, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Limited editions and much more. All my items are handled with care and stored in conservation materials at great cost to preserve the collection.
  • Lots of Radios

    2:21 PM PST, 3/15/2016

    Just listed another lot of 24 vintage home and portable radio/ record player ads from 1940's - 1980's.
  • Coke and a Wahl of an idea

    1:39 PM PST, 3/15/2016

    RARE, RARE, RARE, 1927 Wahl Spring Brake Shock Absorber ultra rare single, full page ad and a Coca-Cola single page ads will allow 2 separate ads or the other side is a 2 page Federal Ortho-Sonic Radio ad. The Wahl ad is very rare, I could find no others for sale and information on it is scarce. One of many unique ads and collectable vintage paper items I am selling.