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Your Price: $ 35.00
Item Number: 23491
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Circa: 1883
Manufacturer: Puck Magazine
Neat find out of a home. This is a framed antique magazine cover, matted and under glass in a wood frame. This looks to be an original Puck Magazine cover dated September 19,1883 for Vol. XIV No. 341 of the magazine, which sold then for 10 cents.
The cover art is a political cartoon by Bernhard Gillam, marked Gillam on the lower left, entitled "The Temptation" on the bottom center. This is satirizing New York City and New York state politics. It depicts the Tammany organization (Tammany Hall) as a snake (it states "Tammany" on the snake) holding an apple in its mouth that is labelled "Harmony", The apple is being offered to two figures, one labelled "Irving Hall" with the name "Davidson" on a ribbon extending from the cap on his head. The other seated figure is labelled "County Democrats" on his belt with the name "H. O. Thompson" on the lower end of his clothes. The cartoon appears to be a play on the Snake, Adam and Eve from the Bible.
This original Puck cover is double matted with pink and green mats within a two tone wood frame. Total frame size is about 16 3/4 inches tall x 13 1/2 inches wide and about 7/8 inch depth to the wood frame (exclusive of the double metal hanging hooks on the backside). While an antique magazine cover, we are not certain of the frame age. It is not brand new but from the wood frame style and clean paper frame backing, this could have been framed in the past 20-30+ years, we don't know. This is how we got this out of a home and we have not attempted to open the frame to examine the cover.
We've provided 8 images to try and show from varied angles and close-ups. Please note that the camera light causes white "hot spot" reflections on the glass, so we could not shoot images head-on but used varied angles to show detail and condition as best we could. Please use the zoom feature to examine closely.
Excellent overall condition with minor frame wear. The Puck cover looks to be printed on newspaper type paper. It appears to be in wonderful shape under the glass, with all art details clear and clean. We can see a few dot holes in the blank paper area outside the graphics in the bottom right corner, and on close inspection you can see hints of what must be printed on the backside of the cover, such as parts of lines, etc. The vintage frame shows expected minor wear, nothing bad, but there are spots on the topside and edges with nicks, scars, wear marks, etc.
A fun antique piece of political cartoon history which would catch attention hanging on a wall and make a great gift for anyone interested in the political history of New York City or New York state. |
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