“PENNEY’S BACK TO SCHOOL DAYS WITH POPEYE” 1935 PINBACK BUTTON ORIGINAL ART WITH PRINTER’S PROOFS.
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$172.50 (Includes 15% Buyer's Premium)
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Thursday, September 30, 2010 1:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Thursday, September 30, 2010 1:00:00 PM)
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Auction:
Auction #201 - Part II
Item numbers 1409 through 3152 in auction 201
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Item Description
Thin art board is 10.25x17.5” with 6-7/8” dia. pen and ink/photostat composite original art of Popeye carrying school books. Most of his face, hat and pipe as well as lower arms and torso are original art, the rest of image area is a photostat. ©1935 King Feature Syndicate, Inc. Top portion of artboard has 8.5x9-7/8” thin textured sheet stapled in place which has hand-lettered text for main portion of button. Comes with 8x17.25” thin artboard which has 24 printed individual paste-ups of buttons, each 1.5” dia. Trace of lt. scattered dust soil, white-out on original art is used a bit freely. Image area still VF. Unique. Classic Popeye image. Button was produced and used by J.C. Penney's as part of their 1935 back to school promotion. From the Parisian Novelty Co. of Chicago archives.
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