Edward Tucker's Catalog Corner; 100 Years In The Making

Interesting story. Slingerland, Ludwig and Leedy late 1920s - early 1930s rare catalog covers only.

 I purchased one catalog cover of three for sale by accident thinking it was a whole catalog for only a couple dollars. Moments later when I realized it wasn’t I thought, oh well it was only a couple bucks, no big deal.
Then a lightbulb went off, I’ll make a framed piece of artwork!

The next day I asked the same person who had the two other catalog covers for sale if they still had them, because they were gone off the website. They responded yes so I told them I’d like to purchase the others as well. A deal was made for a few dollars more. When they sent me the other two they added in the Slingerland cover for free, very nice of them to do so.

 So, after a few hours of restoration which mainly consisted of making copies of the very same mint condition catalog covers from my archives to fill in a few missing sections and repairing the many tears in these I matted and framed what you are looking at now. Definitely worth the time, money and effort, to me, that I spent to accomplish this. I think it’s cool as hell and will look great in the studio, not to mention, who else has this? Answer, no one.

Side note:
 I believe these ended up as just covers due to the paper drive effort of WWII. Some kid probably had them, and as their parents were collecting all non-essential papers around the house the covers were saved and the innards went to the cause! Of course this is pure speculation on my part but makes logical sense due to the fact that so few pre-WWII catalogs or much paper of any kind that wasn’t necessary is so scarce today for this very reason. And it makes a good story in my mind.

I dig this piece.

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Edward Tucker
Studio 3T