Original 1921 Yardlong Calendar Selz Shoe Lady (02/27/2011)

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Original 1921 Yardlong Calendar Selz Shoe Lady

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Sold Date: 02/27/2011
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Advertising

This auction is for one of our calendars that we have available and it is for the 1921 Selz Shoe calendar that our family store gave away to our customers for their patronage way back when in the early days of our store. This is not a reproduction it is just a brand new never given out calendar that we found stored away in the store's attic. I have sold dozens of these and everyone that buys them is amazed with the quality as the colors are as vivid and true as you could ever find anywhere. These just haven't seen the light of day for over 90 years so I think that their quality is unmatched by any other yard long calendar ladies that you will ever see. as you will not be disappointed in the condition and you won't get over holding this 90 year old perfect paper document in your hands and getting her framed and hanging on your wall!

The following is a bit more history of our store and other calendars that we have available and I intend to list several different years at this time. This auction that you are now viewing is for only one and that is the 1921 pictured as the first picture on our listing. The first seven pictures are of the actual calendar that you are bidding on and it is a perfect one. Really on a scale of 1 to 10 she is indeed a "10"! No edge problems, no wrinkles, no tears, no color fading.....just perfect. The calendar has the brass metal edges top and bottom and the brass hanger is still attached on the top edge. Email me if you have any questions that this description doesn't answer for you.

I have listed a couple of pictures that show all of the calendars that we have of our entire set of the yard long prints that our family store, M. Crow & Company in Lostine, Oregon, use to pass out to our patrons back in the early days of the store. The years range from 1918, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929 & 1930 and all feature a different lady for each year and most of these lithographs are signed by the artist. They all are sponsored by the Selz Shoe Company and feature that company's logo near the calendar on the bottom of each of these prints and also show a thank you statement from our families store. Most all of them are around 39 inches long and 10 inches wide. The lady in pink is 1920 and is slightly longer and about 1" narrower while the 1928 girl ( holding the red roses near her face) is much shorter approximately 30" long by 12" wide. The 1930 woman has the red coat with the black and white mink stole over her shimmering silver and gold trimmed gown and she was painted by Earl Christy. The lovely young woman of 1929 is standing by the mirror dressed in her bright red flapper dress with the floral wrap and she was painted by Earl Chambers. The sweet looking young lady for 1928 with the roses is also done by Earl Christy. The super classy lady of 1927 (my favorite), dressed to the nines, standing on that black and white tile floor was painted by McClelland Barclay. The lady in blue, 1925 with the hat and the walking stick, now she is something else too, but no artist name to be found on this beautiful print. Another lady dressed in pink with the gold straps and accents on her dress and holding the feather fan or boa is from 1923....I can't tell if she is going upstairs to bed or if she just has bedroom eyes! The artist's name is hard to make out but someone told me is was Frank Desch. The little gal sitting on the bench in the 1921 looks so sweet and innocent doesn't she? All of the detail in this lithograph is just remarkable, the tooling on the bench, the wall paper, her yellow shoes with the rose, that fantastic dress let alone her face and hair...Wow!! But no artist name on this one either. The 1920 by artisan, Haskell Coffin features the other woman in a pink gown with the lavendar print and the sea foam green netting she has around her shoulders, she is very pretty, reminds me of my mother! Then the Grand Dame of 1918, clothed in that gorgeous black evening dress holding that single red rose and those beads! Now she is the...