The following is a guest blog by Rita Holcomb of “Cemetarian”. Rita, like me, is a member of TEN – The Ephemera Network
Remember that fancy party dress Mom wore to the Country Club, Dad’s favorite fishing lure or the family’s first new car? Those items may be gone but you can take a walk down memory lane with the old ads.
Vintage advertisements are colorful, nostalgic, and are an excellent and inexpensive way to change your décor in just a few moments. Take a simple frame with a simple mat and you can change the ad to fit your mood in the blink of an eye.
Magazine advertisements are a wonderful research tool to confirm a specific date or perhaps the color of an item. And by purchasing a single ad you don’t have to store the entire magazine and can view it anytime you wish. Verify your collection or hang it on the wall just because it makes you smile.
Not everyone can afford an authentic painting or even a print, but through the vintage magazines, we can all afford to decorate our offices, game rooms, nursery’s or any room in the house with fabulous art from yesteryear. Artists such as Norman Rockwell, Everett S Ward, Joyce Ballantyne, Francis Tipron Hunter and Lynn Bogue Hunt created art pieces that have become icons of our culture. You will find some ads are signed and some are not. Ballantyne was famous for her Coppertone Ad in 1959. “It was hardly the only art I ever produced,” she told the St. Petersburg Times in 2004. “But that’s what everybody remembers.”
Have a look at Rita’s site and find hundreds of Vintage Ads at – cemetarian
This article originally appeared at Ephemera.ning.com
Tom
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