Hubby rescued these advertising pieces from an old hardware store...
I have saved them for years, and especially love the one with the 1940's model stove, shown below.
I know they have something to do with printing, either with a mimeograph perhaps kept at the store, or to give to the newspaper for using them on the presses.
I have no idea what they are called, and I would love to know, and how they were used!
They are from the 1940's and the graphics and the lettering just awesome, made of very, very thick cardboard, so thick, they are not flexible, and are similar material to what the matting in a picture frame would be.
I love anything at all to do with old hardware stores.
If we are traveling and see an old family-owned hardware store, if we can stop, we do. It's always a nice visit, always. I have to say I love the ones still in the old downtowns in the deep south.
That was my first real job, and I just loved it, I can still smell that old hardware store, mostly it was the grass seed and fertilizer, but the aisle with the pipe fittings had its own smell (oily) and the aisle with the cleaning supplies had its own smell (Lysol!), the paint aisle smelled faintly of turpentine, I could go on and on.
It's amazing how smells have so much to do with our memories of places, isn't it?
If you can help me with a name for these pieces, I sure would love to know! Thanks, and I hope you have a nice spring day! (Spring has run away and not decided to return to Michigan yet, she's still freezing and we still have snow and ice everywhere!)
