November 2015 - Mountain States Collector

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Celebrating the
Memory of Cy Walling
It was just over a decade ago that Cy Walling, co-founder of the
Village Antique Mall, had the vision of opening a prominent antique
mall in Denver. A dream that proved to have its difficulties eventually
transformed to fruition. With the smart business guidance of his best
friend and co-founder Michael White, Cy Walling was able to live the
last 10 years of his life living his dream.
“I came up here 10 years ago to help my best friend Cy start this
business,” says Michael, “He was going to do it on his own but he
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NOV. 4: LACE IDENTIFICATION Discussion led by Jane Meier at 2:00 p.m. at The Brass
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NOV. 14: HEIRLOOMS ANTIQUE MALL is holding an afternoon of verbal evaluations
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NOV. 18: HISTORY OF POP-UP BOOKS Discussion led by Gena Zerlan at 2:00 p.m. at The
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DEC. 2: NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS Discussion led by Cheryl Miller at 2:00 p.m. at The Brass Armadillo, 11301 West I-70, Wheat ridge, CO. More information, or if you would be interested in doing a
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DEC. 16: TREENWARE Discussion led by Gordon (Ski) rozanski at 2:00 p.m. at The Brass Armadillo, 11301 West I-70, Wheat ridge, CO. More information, or if you would be interested in doing a presentation in your area of expertise, call Dixie or Charlotte at 303-403-1677.
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MAr. 11-13: WORLD WIDE ANTIQUE and VINTAGE SHOW at the Denver Mart in the EXPO
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Nat ional Holiday
let’s Honor our veterans
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icans the opportunity to personally thank veterans for their
sacrifice.
Some retail establishments and restaurant chains offer
free or discounted meals for people who can prove their
veteran status.
Veterans Day always falls on 11 November, but it may
be observed on a different day due to the fact that it is a
federal holiday. Federal employees and schoolchildren
typically have the day off work and school, so the holiday
is observed on the Monday following the actual date of
the holiday if it happens to fall on a weekend.
November 11 was chosen as the official date for Veterans Day in reference to the ending of World War I. Germany signed an armistice with the Allies that signaled the
end of the war on at 11 a.m. on 11 November 1918.
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month
of 1918 an armistice between Germany and the Allied nations came into effect. On November 11, 1919, Armistice
Day was commemorated for the first time. In 1919, President Wilson proclaimed the day should be "filled with
solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory." There
were plans for parades, public meetings and a brief suspension of business activities at 11am.
In 1926, the United States Congress officially recognized the end of World War I and declared that the anniversary of the armistice should be commemorated with
prayer and thanksgiving. The Congress also requested that
the president should "issue a proclamation calling upon
the officials to display the flag of the United States on all
Government buildings on November 11 and inviting the
people of the United States to observe the day in schools
and churches, or other suitable places, with appropriate
ceremonies of friendly relations with all other peoples."
An Act (52 Stat. 351; 5 U. S. Code, Sec. 87a) was approved on May 13, 1938, which made November 11 in
each year a legal holiday, known as Armistice Day. This
day was originally intended to honor veterans of World
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mobilization of service men in the history of the United
States and the American forces fought in Korea. In 1954,
the veterans service organizations urged Congress to
change the word "Armistice" to "Veterans". Congress approved this change and on June 1, 1954, November 11 became a day to honor all American veterans, where ever
and whenever they had served.
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1971. However, this caused a lot of confusion as many
states disagreed with this decision and continued to hold
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479), which stated that Veterans Day would again be observed on November 11 from 1978 onwards. Veterans Day
is still observed on November 11.
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History
Chesterfield goes to War
By Barry Krause
Cigarettes were a valuable barter commodity during
World War II in battle-torn Europe and elsewhere, as we
all know from watching movies and TV dramas in which
American soldiers make some fast bucks (or francs or
pounds or lire, etc.) by trading or selling cigarettes to fellow service men or civilians.
It was a time when your very life might depend on
how lucky you were to avoid being in the path of a stray
bullet or hand grenade, and habitual smokers enjoyed any
cigarettes that came their way, hardly concerned about
possible health problems forty years in the future if they
smoke a lot in that time period.
Some American brands were extremely in demand by
American service men who had smoked them before entering the military, and by foreigners who admired the
consistent quality of American-made goods in general, especially when the local shortages of cigarettes were chronic due to the war's disruption of normal tobacco commerce.
In those days, to be in possession of a number of fresh
packs of Camels, Lucky Strikes, or Chesterfields was the
same as walking around with a valid credit card, in the
sense that you could barter the smokes for just about anything, or simply sell them for the available currency of
buyers who were fortunate to have any money.
What we need to remember is the lucrative advertising of American cigarettes on the "home front" during the
war, not neglected by the tobacco companies who saw
every opportunity to associate their products with the prevailing patriotic fever sweeping the country. Such ads appeared in newspapers and magazines, on billboards and,
in the state-of-the-art electronic medium then, on the
radio, as well as on displays in stores, train stations, theaters, and other public edifices where cigarettes were sold
or at least promoted.
It's fun to track down and study these cigarette ads
from an era in American history when smoking was more
acceptable than it is now, when it was even marketed
specifically to American military personnel, their families
and friends, and, by association, to any freedom-loving
patriotic tobacco consumer who could imagine their nation's war heroes achieving great deeds in overseas combat, if the least we could do was smoke the same cigarettes that were destined to carry us all "from Here to Victory," as this "Ladies' Home Journal" ad declares in a 1942
issue.
At that time, Chesterfields were produced by the
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company, which noted their
copyright for Chesterfields in fine print underneath the
ads.
How times have changed! Today Chesterfields are
made by a giant business conglomerate of the Altria Group
of New York, with Philip Morris subsidiaries that actually
manufacture the cigarettes, with overseas offices in such
places as Munich, Germany and Tokyo, Japan!
Munich was Hitler's old stomping ground during his
rise to power as the German dictator, and Tokyo was the
capital of the Axis nation that dragged America into the
war by their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines. If German and Japanese residents couldn't get their
hands on many Chesterfields during the war, they most
certainly
can
today, although
taxes on tobacco
in both America
and those countries have boosted
the cost of a pack
of Chesterfields
as high as it was
on the black market in World War
II, in some cases,
although not adjusted for inflation, of course.
It would be
interesting to research the quantities of cigarettes estimated to have been
donated by the tobacco firms to American military personnel in World War II as a giveaway stunt to supplement
their widespread company ads for the same.
Our health-obsessed culture now looks down with
self-righteous contempt on smoking, but, to a dying Marine on Iwo Jima or a seriously wounded infantryman on
a dusty Italian road, "one last smoke" shared with a comrade was a moment of intense emotion a little more substantial than the typical contrived entertainment that we
see on TV today.
Let me be blunt. I think our World War II combat veterans are the real "American Idols" and true "Survivors"
for all concerned. Chesterfields may not have actually won
the war, but a lot of brave soldiers who smoked them did
win it.
We study and collect historical smoking memorabilia, not because we approve of smoking, but because we
are curious about all aspects of human behavior, as evidenced in material artifacts that survive for us to ponder.
The evolution of cigarette advertising in the 20th century
is a legitimate field of collectibles, with many examples
inexpensive to buy today.
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their November issues during the 1950s and
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City. Two years later the New York Daily Newstory."
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instructions
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produced
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included
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Pie,
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special
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Thanksgiving
Book
appeared
in
as J.C. Leyendecker and Normanrelated
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market.
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by
Lenore
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volume
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work
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more
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firm inmanufactured
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on
the
richly
illustrated
th
an enormous
of paper
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manufactured
an enormous
variety
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novelties,
pageants,with
andinplays...all
ages."
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28420th
page
coverstableware.
of the Saturday
Evening
Post.
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in theand other
paper
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offered
numerous
booklets
publications
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first
half
of
the
century.
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covers
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decorating inside
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of the holiday
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inside
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Dayton,
magazine used
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cover
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Company
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paperOhio.
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more
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issue also
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ly and
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service
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ly popularoneduring
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also oneWar
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including
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in that era.
service as the holiday was
In the decades that followed Thanksgiving was still a steady theme for magazine
observed. Rockwell as also
covers but probably without lavish artistry of before.
responsible
for the
Four on the
Jack and Jill, the children's publication, continued
to feature
Thanksgiving
front of their November issues during the 1950s
and
1960s.
In
1966
the
cover
Freedom posters issued in also made
mention of Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City. Two years later the
1943. Among the four,
New York Daily Newspaper carried a full page advertisement for still enormously popwhich were printed in three
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Unusual Designs Make Teapots Popular Collectibles
By Ann Gilbert
Once upon a time tea was kept under lock and key and valued more than the teapots used to serve
it. These days the revived interest in tea drinking has stirred up interest in teapot collecting. However it
is nothing new for longtime collectors Sonny and Gloria Kamm. Their collection of over 17,000 is
housed in The Kamm Teapot Foundation and Museum in Sparta, North Carolina. And what a collection it is covering both antique and contemporary teapots.
Today’s generation of collectors usually looks for the pottery teapots made from the 1930s to contemporary. Figurals are a first choice, followed by modern shapes and colors popularized by the California potters from the 1930s and 40s. Figurals of celebrities from Elvis to Princess Di and cartoon
characters can be found on eBay, as well as antique examples.
So how does a teapot collection begin? Often when you inherit a couple of teapots, and after using
them, become interested in collecting. Or, you are collecting in another category such as Chinese or
English porcelain. Novelty, contemporary teapots may catch your eye in a design shop or a garage
sale.
Some collections begin with children’s tea sets.
When we think of tea drinking as an English custom, it wasn’t popular until the last half of the
17th century. In fact the oldest known English teapot wasn’t in use till around 1670.
Since tea was such a luxury, into the 18th century, teapots were primarily silver, and for royalty
and the wealthy. By the 19th century it became less expensive it became part of an everyday experience in England, America and around the world. Teapots for the average user were then made of such
modest materials as ceramics, ironstone, pottery, pewter and silver-plate.
These days the once inexpensive teapots can be pricey, depending where you find them.
CLUES: To get an idea about the history of teapots and what some available ones can cost these
days check out the several books on the subject. Among them, Antique Trader Teapots Price Guide by
Kyle Husfloen: Teapots: Makers and Collectors published by Schiffer Books For Collectors.
You’ll find the Kamm Teapot Foundation and Museum at 115 Atwood Street, Sparta, NC.
PHOTO CAPTION: (1) Bumble Bee, ceramic teapot.
PHOTO CrEDIT: (1) rendezvous with Tea Shop, Grosse Point Woods, MI
PHOTO CAPTION: (2) English Whieldon-type c. 1770.
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Hand-painted Furniture, Rugs
Ant ique Detecti ve
Prices for early english oak Furniture Depend on
age of reproductions
By Anne Gilbert
The look of 16TH to 17th century English oak furniture has decorated many a home since it was first
created. reproductions have been made over the centuries. Perhaps you have one of the many examples,
handed down in your family that was popular during
the early 20th century?
What recently fascinated me was the collection of
Sara and Bob Hunt coming to a July Skinner auction.
The Hunts were avid collectors and their collection included examples of early oak English furniture and accessories from the 16th to early 20th century. The early
20th century reproductions had estimates in the hundreds of dollars. 17th century reproductions were estimated in the low thousands while a 16th century table
could sell for as much as $20,000.00.
The category of early English oak furniture of interest to collectors covers 1550 to the 1670s. If you are
interested there are plenty of 20th century reproductions. Just be sure you are paying for a reproduction
not an authentic piece.
Consider the Gothic style that lasted from 1100 to
1550, when the arches, trefoils and curves were replaced by the renaissance style. Gothic came into
fashion for the second time in England from the late
18th to the last quarter of the 19th century. From the
1870s Gothic furnishings were fashionable in France,
the continent and America as well. So did other forms
of English oak furniture, such as Jacobean and William
and Mary.
CLUES: These days as the Hunt collection proves,
it is acceptable to include reproductions in an early
English oak furniture collection. It is however, anybody’s guess how prices will fare in the future.
With many homes having smaller room sizes the
heavy look of these early oak tables and court cupboards may not fit in. However, the lighter look of
William and Mary pieces
Faking was done around the 1870s with Gothicstyle cupboards and chests made in Germany in the
1870s. Often the pieces were “married” using old and
new parts.
research the designs before spending too much.
PHOTO CAPTIONS: (1) Oak court cupboard, 17th
century. PHOTO CrEDIT: (1) Sara and Bob Hunt Collection, Skinner Auctions
PHOTO: (2) William & Mary-style oak dressing
table. 20th century PHOTO CrEDIT (2) Sara & Bob
Hunt Collection, Skinner Auctions
antique Detective Q & a: seed Catalogs to Majolica
What could be the value?
D.C. - Gary, Indiana
A. What a discovery! Unfortunately too many old
Q. I bought an old kitchen cabinet at a yard sale for
$25. When I got home I found this 1888 Burpee’s seed seed catalogs have been cut up and sold by the page. It’s
like cutting up a rare book and framing the pages.
and fruit catalog in one of the drawers. I was absolutely
Burpee’s was among the earliest seed companies, beginthrilled because I have recently started a collection of old
lithographed
catalog
seed catalog pages that I frame and hang in my kitchen.
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of the many seed catalog collectors for $200 or more.
Anne Gilbert
Olde Towne
Littleton
Q. I bought this funny looking pitcher at a church
rummage sale last year for five dollars. As the photo
shows it looks like an ear of corn with raised kernels and
leaves. It is in good condition and has no maker marks on
the bottom. It is eight inches high. What can you tell me
about it?
L.M.- Kansas City, KS
A. You appear to have a piece of American, Victorian majolica, made in the late 19th century.
Historically, the earliest pieces of majolica were made
in Spain as early as the eighth century. By the 19th century it was made in England, France, Germany and America. Some was given away in America as premiums in
grocery stores.
Your pitcher is known as “Etruscan” and was probably made in America by Griffen, Smith and Hill of Pennsylvania.
Best known are English pieces made by the Minton
pottery firm.
When it became popular during the 1853 exhibit in
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Paris in 1889 many potteries began making it. It went out
of fashion till a book “Majolica” was written by Marilyn
G. Karmason. Currently your pitcher could sell for around
$100 in a shop.
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can sell in shops for several hundred dollars.
Q. My mother-in law gave me a Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs rug she got in the 1930s. It was made in
History
Italy. Any idea of value ?
H.P.A. Prices vary, but it could sell for over $200.
Q. What can you tell me about the Czechoslovakian
tea set with Spanish marks? On the bottom it says "Fabricada en Alp Choslovagia."
M.
A. Czechoslovakian tea sets and other pieces made of
porcelain and semi-porcelain were exported to many countries, including Spain, which explains the markings on
your tea set.
Q. I bought this colorful Oriental plate in a Florida
thrift shop. It is 18 inches in diameter and has no marks. I
paid $25. How old is it ? Where was it made ? Did I pay
too much ?
H.C. - Pompano Beach, FL
A. You have a collector’s eye and have discovered a
mid-19th century Japanese Imari charger. Made in the
Japanese town of Arita beginning in the 17th Century, it
was named for the port of Imari-the place from where it
was shipped. The designs of textiles, chrysanthemums and
landscapes were enclosed in panels. It became so popular
theCo.
18thIt’scentury
the Chinese
it. So did Engthat by
E. L. White was the artist for this one by Asheville Post
Card
postmarked
Augustcopied
15, 1944.
Tire rationing During World War ii
By Roy Nuhn
In 1941, the wartime administration in Washington
placed a ban on the sale of new tires for automobiles. Americans, already dazed by the furiously unfolding chain of events
following the attack on Pearl Harbor and the military mobilization, were once again shocked. The ban accompanied gas
rationing and other controls on the country’s economy.
Telling civilians that they were now home front soldiers,
the government launched a massive campaign at the onset of
World War II to rally support for its extensive rationing program. In time, nearly all foods were on the list, as well as
gasoline, cigarettes, alcohol, heating oil and clothing.
During the first couple of years of the war, rubber tires
for passenger autos were not rationed – worse, they were not
even allowed to be sold! Of all the raw materials needed to
smash the Axis powers, rubber was the most critical.
By now, tires had become an absolute necessity for the
millions of automobiles owned and so loved by Americans.
But, unfortunately, it took one ton of rubber to build each of
the tens of thousands battlefield tanks needed to wage war.
The Japanese Empire had overrun the Far East very rapidly
and our supply of crude rubber, the prime ingredient used to
make tires, was almost completely cut off. Attempts to grow
rubber trees in the U.S. failed, so what small flow of rubber
still available, mostly from South America, had to go into
wartime production.
research in the technology of synthetic rubber production was stepped up. By 1943 nearly 800,000 tons of the stuff
was being made, but not early enough in the war, when it was
so desperately needed.
To conserve the tires already on the hubs of the nation’s
cars and make them last until the end of the war, authorities
came up with a game plan. The scheme called gas rationing
and a 35 mph speed limit to halt excessive driving and slow
down wear and tear. They also advocated countless scrap rubber collection drives and a ban on the sale of new tires.
Washington officials, however, in 1941 were a bit wary
of hitting the public with all of these necessary restrictions
too quickly. Shortly after the start of war in December, though,
ration Order #1-A stopped sales of new tires. The following
year, despite a public outcry, the OPA (Office of Price Administration) implemented gas rationing; so strong was the need
to conserve gas and tires.
And thus began one of the worst hardships endured
by civilians on the home front during World War II – gas
rationing and the complete shortage of replacement auto
tires. Used tires in almost any condition that had escaped
the scrap drives were now passionately sought after. The
black market for used – and unused – tires flourished. At
one point, midway through the war, a good second-hand
tire brought nearly $50 under the table, about five times
the regulated price for a new one – if even available.
Old tires were patched and repatched. There was no other
choice. Since this was decades before the invention of the
tubeless tire, patching also had to be done to the inner tubes.
Once thought fit only for use as floating devices in swimming,
old inner tubes were hurriedly recalled to active use. Old
newspapers were frequently packed between thinning tire and
inner tube to prolong its precious life.
The image of Americans feverishly patching and repatching old tires or searching for usable replacements in order to
keep the family car running was not lost on that element of
society responsible for making us laugh. In a very short time,
radio comedians, cartoonists, comic strip artists and the folks
in Hollywood who made animated shorts for the silver screen
got into the act.
They began portraying the predicament of poor John Q.
Public trying to keep “Old Betsy” going so he could get to
work, take his best gal out, or make it to the neighborhood
movie house.
The scenario was also not lost on postcard publishers.
By 1942 the printing presses at Dexter, Curt Teich, Asheville,
Tichnor, Koppell and dozens of other companies were churning out countless thousands of comic postcards with wartime
humor themes. Added to boot camp, KP, and the draft were
the home front woes of tire shortages and rationing.
In 1942 Curt Teich, one of the largest producers of home
Loveland
front and G.I. linen style postcards, published a five-card set
about the troubles caused by the lack of tires. Each card depicted a humorous aspect of the situation. Unlike nearly all of
their cards, these seem to have been published and sold exclusively by Curt Teich.
Beals Litho & Prtg. Co., of Des Moines, Iowa, included
several about rationing among its hundred or so World War II
linen comics. One, for instance, showed a poor car owner
lamenting over his bandaged and patched tires.
Asheville Post Card Co. also put out an interesting postcard on the topic. Captioned “Traveling Under Difficulties,”
it portrays a young couple trying to chug along the road in
their battered auto stop badly repaired tires.
As we look back at these yesterdays, it is a bit difficult
for us to realize just how funny were these postcards. As they
say, “you have to be there.” Some humor is timeless, and some
transient. Unless tire rationing or stoppage returns to us in
some nightmarish future scenario, we will never be able to
fully appreciate the comedy being played out.
On December 20, 1945, four months after V-J Day, tire
rationing came to an end. Tires, the first commodity to be restricted, was the last to be freed.
All of America celebrated and in Akron, Ohio, and elsewhere in the nation, tire manufacturing geared up. Bead makOpen
allpresses
winter.were
ing and tire building machines
and 10-5
pressure
turned back on.
Up into the attic went the ration books and coupons –
and the postcards about it all. Americans wanted to forget
what they had just lived through.
Now we collectors want to be told the story!
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