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Life Magazine – December 5, 1912 (# 1571) – Christmas Number
$68.00
Magazine Condition : Good – once bound (All Very Good, nice. Spine has thin neat band of archival white tape, edges have been slightly trimmed.)
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Description
Cover : Santa laying in snow after having fallen off a tepee while trying to get in the smoke hole, “Darn these steep roofs,” art by Angus MacDonall.
– CHRISTMAS NUMBER (a very FAT issue with great content).
– Full page color ads for Fatima cigarettes, Williams Holder Top Shaving Stick, Belle Mead Sweets (lovely art), Columbia Grafonola, La Montagne’s Sons wines and liqueurs (two pages), Daniel Green Felt Show company, A. A. Vantine and Company Oriental Store, Garford Six car ad (art by R. F. S., possibly Schabelitz), Goodrich tires, Pierce-Arrow Cars (art by Frank X. Leyendecker), Kodak.
– Full page color artwork by Charles Broughton (J. Frost, painter), Victor C. Anderson (Love or Pie?).
– Lots of full page ads and car ads not listed here.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Orson Lowell (Smoking Jackets?), Sanford Tousey (Christmas as it is not), Harrison Cady (‘tis an ill wind that blows nobody good), Mark Fenderson (If money could buy these things), F. T. Richards (November), C. Clyde Squires (Two pages : Two kinds of hunger), Rea Irvin (Sports of all nations : decoying woodpeckers for the manufacture of Bird’s eye maple), Rea Irvin (Sports of all nations : Confetti throwing in Russia), B. Cory Kilvert (six panels … The First …), William Merle Allison (Homesick), S (Peter’s Milk Chocolate).
– Winning caption in Life’s contest goes to George A. McCarter of Roxbury, Massachusetts, “Forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
– Very charming strip artwork by Herbert Merill Wilder “If happiness came as readily as it did when we were young.”
– Full page Gillette Safety Razor “Gift suggestion, Christmas only a few days away” ad, art style looks like J. C. Leyendecker, but it is not signed.
– Two page centerspread art by Angus MacDonall (Twas the night before Christmas … elderly couple remembering their children hanging stockings).
– Some current events include : Merry Christmas!, includes long poem by the editor Edward S. Martin.
– Half page Santa Fe railroad California Limited ad with artwork signed NM, likely Neysa McMein.
– And much more 1912 2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!
– Full page color ads for Fatima cigarettes, Williams Holder Top Shaving Stick, Belle Mead Sweets (lovely art), Columbia Grafonola, La Montagne’s Sons wines and liqueurs (two pages), Daniel Green Felt Show company, A. A. Vantine and Company Oriental Store, Garford Six car ad (art by R. F. S., possibly Schabelitz), Goodrich tires, Pierce-Arrow Cars (art by Frank X. Leyendecker), Kodak.
– Full page color artwork by Charles Broughton (J. Frost, painter), Victor C. Anderson (Love or Pie?).
– Lots of full page ads and car ads not listed here.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Orson Lowell (Smoking Jackets?), Sanford Tousey (Christmas as it is not), Harrison Cady (‘tis an ill wind that blows nobody good), Mark Fenderson (If money could buy these things), F. T. Richards (November), C. Clyde Squires (Two pages : Two kinds of hunger), Rea Irvin (Sports of all nations : decoying woodpeckers for the manufacture of Bird’s eye maple), Rea Irvin (Sports of all nations : Confetti throwing in Russia), B. Cory Kilvert (six panels … The First …), William Merle Allison (Homesick), S (Peter’s Milk Chocolate).
– Winning caption in Life’s contest goes to George A. McCarter of Roxbury, Massachusetts, “Forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
– Very charming strip artwork by Herbert Merill Wilder “If happiness came as readily as it did when we were young.”
– Full page Gillette Safety Razor “Gift suggestion, Christmas only a few days away” ad, art style looks like J. C. Leyendecker, but it is not signed.
– Two page centerspread art by Angus MacDonall (Twas the night before Christmas … elderly couple remembering their children hanging stockings).
– Some current events include : Merry Christmas!, includes long poem by the editor Edward S. Martin.
– Half page Santa Fe railroad California Limited ad with artwork signed NM, likely Neysa McMein.
– And much more 1912 2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!
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