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LOT 12195514621  |  Catalogue: Art

Let the Gold Dust Twins Do Your Work" [antique embossed enameled metal broadside portraying John D. Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan], illustrated from and Being Advertising for Puck Magazine

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Rare Embossed Tin Color Broadside With Puck Heading, Numbered Vol. Lvii No. 149, Possibly An Advertising Display For That Issue Of Puck. A Prototypical Demonstration Of The Emerging Consciousness That The Modern Institutional Economic World Was Apparently Designed By Greedy, Self-Centered Drunken Seventeen Year Olds With Expectations Of Managing It When They Grew Up, With The Finer Structure Continually Redrawn By Self-Serving Politicians, Bureaucrats And Judges Concerned Mostly With Preserving Their Salaries. Contains 10 1/8" X 8 3/4" Color Illustration Of John D. Rockefeller And Senator Aldrich [Father-In-Law Of John D. Ii) With Dark Skins, Each Dressed Only In A Short Skirt Or Tutu Bearing The Legend "Gold Dust", Aldrich Holding A Model Of The Capitol And Standing On A Model Of The Stock Exchange, John D. Holding A Satchel Of Money And A Standard Oil Can, With Uncle Sam Looking On Dubiously; Text At Bottom "Let The Gold Dust Twins Do Your Work", A Take-Off On A Well-Known Advertising Logo Depicting Two Black Children, Selling Soap. A Classic Display From The Era Of Outspoken Political Outrage.
Published by: Keppler & Schwarzmann / Puck, New York, 1905
Vendor: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA

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Rare Embossed Tin Color Broadside With Puck Heading, Numbered Vol. Lvii No. 149, Possibly An Advertising Display For That Issue Of Puck. A Prototypical Demonstration Of The Emerging Consciousness That The Modern Institutional Economic World Was Apparently Designed By Greedy, Self-Centered Drunken Seventeen Year Olds With Expectations Of Managing It When They Grew Up, With The Finer Structure Continually Redrawn By Self-Serving Politicians, Bureaucrats And Judges Concerned Mostly With Preserving Their Salaries. Contains 10 1/8" X 8 3/4" Color Illustration Of John D. Rockefeller And Senator Aldrich [Father-In-Law Of John D. Ii) With Dark Skins, Each Dressed Only In A Short Skirt Or Tutu Bearing The Legend "Gold Dust", Aldrich Holding A Model Of The Capitol And Standing On A Model Of The Stock Exchange, John D. Holding A Satchel Of Money And A Standard Oil Can, With Uncle Sam Looking On Dubiously; Text At Bottom "Let The Gold Dust Twins Do Your Work", A Take-Off On A Well-Known Advertising Logo Depicting Two Black Children, Selling Soap. A Classic Display From The Era Of Outspoken Political Outrage.
Published by: Keppler & Schwarzmann / Puck, New York, 1905
Vendor: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA

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