Featured Finds Thread

Nom! Step right this way!

 

Also got this for .10, no record

 

(listens to it)....

 

Watched him recently ‘singing’ Enter Sandman with his heavy metal band, they’ve got some rude name I can’t remember. I admire his energy at 90 odd years old, wish I had the same.

 

You have to give him props for staying power.

 

He just talks rather than singing. Band name is The *uckers..

 

Just learned the Beatles album is a promo copy!!

 

Too bad he didn't opt for the Kackers, but only those who know some Yiddish would understand. Same word, different language.

 

LOL

 

This is another one of my unusual DeVilbiss finds I have collected along the way.

Anyone who has ever seen an original 1926 DeVilbiss catalog is familiar with this image. A beautiful young women sitting in the glow from a c.1926 "Golden Birdcage" BQ-4 Perfume Light.

It is one of 3 illustrations that were included in the catalog. All 3 illustrations were done by Bradshaw Crandell (1896 -1966). He was an American artist & illustrator who was well known for doing portraits of many of the Hollywood stars of that same time frame.

This particular piece is actually a page from the "Stubbs Company Color Offset Advertising" magazine. This company produced the 1926 DeVilbiss catalog. The company had locations in Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland & New York.

On the other side of the page there is a vivid description of the catalog itself, entitled "Symposium of Art and Beauty". There is also a portion of a letter sent to the DeVilbiss Co. by a customer who was extremely impressed by the catalog.

To the left towards the bottom of the page there is a drawing of 3 more DeVilbiss pieces from the catalog; a DK-16 dauber bottle, a N-15 atomizer & a BL-13 Imperial Hanging Hearts perfume lamp.

It measures 11 5/8" by 8 1/4".

I have it in one of those frames that is glass on both sides. It sits atop one of my Barrister bookcases on the other side of my desk, propped on a wooden easel. I see it every time I look up from my computer towards the TV that is on an adjacent wall.

 

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Also got this today- let's see if anyone else knows what it is without cheating:

 

a plastic sheet record , included in the magazine ??

I made one of those from a sidewalk machine in the 60's , in NY City.

 

Key Details About the 1979 MAD Flexi-Disc

• The Track: Entitled "It's a Super-Spectacular Day", it was a comedy novelty song/sound experience. [1]
• The Trick: The record featured multiple concentric grooves (typically 8 different versions) pressed into the vinyl. Whichever track played depended entirely on where you dropped the record player needle, giving listeners a random ending every time. [1, 2]
• The Format: It was a square, ultra-thin, one-sided flexible plastic sheet (flexi-disc) designed to be played at 33 1/3 RPM on a standard turntable. [1, 2]
• Release: It was included as a bound-in insert inside MAD Super Special editions around late 1979 / 1980

 

I didn't need to cheat , ..........that much...

 

Usually with those sheet records, you had to put a quarter on the record to weight it down.

 

Or those who know German, or Dutch. Our word is with double k instead of ck, but it sounds and means exactly the same.
We also use it for someone who is filthy rich.

 

beautiful

 

The plastic record included in a magazine that I remember predates the Mad magazine one: it was in a National Geographic magazine and it was a recording of Winston Churchill's funeral.

 

I was too young to remember directly, but didn't they include some in cereal boxes?