VTG 1916 ADVERTISING PC FORD MODEL T COBB SHINN COMIC ART SINGING FROGS

Description: FEATURED IS A VINTAGE 1916 POSTCARD THAT'S LOTS OF FUN ... ART BY NOTED HOOSIER COMIC ARTIST CONRAD "COBB" SHINN ... ONE OF THE SCARCER "FORD" CARDS. THE MESSAGE: NO MATTER WHAT BEFALLS ONE, IT PAYS TO HAVE A FORD AUTOMOBILE BECAUSE "THE LITTLE OLD FORD RAMBLED RIGHT ALONG" AND ONE DOESN'T HAVE TO BE WORRIED ABOUT LOSING ONE'S TEMPER BECAUSE ONE HAS BROKEN DOWN ... THE WHOLE MESSAGE IS DELIVERED BY A CHORUS OF SINGING FROGS! SHINN WAS PROLIFIC ... BY THE TIME HE WAS 25, IN 1912, IT WAS SAID THAT 25 MILLION POSTCARDS COMING OFF THE PRESSES IN A YEAR'S TIME CARRIED A COBB SHINN DESIGN. HENRY FORD LOVED THE TONGUE IN CHEEK JIBES SHINN TARGETED AT THE MODEL T, SAYING EVERY TIME SHINN SEEMED TO POKE FUN AT HIS MODEL T, ANOTHER ONE SOLD! THE "FORD" THEMED CARDS WERE THE ONLY POSTCARDS DONE BY SHINN THAT WERE OF A "SERIES" NATURE. THIS CARD IS ONE OF THE SCARCER ONES AND HAS ONLY SHOWED UP FOR SALE A HANDFUL OF TIMES ... MAYBE THREE OR FOUR TIMES ... ACROSS THE PAST DOZEN OR SO YEARS. Domestic shipping by eBay Standard Envelope includes eBay tracking (not necessarily door to door ... more likely tracking of delivery to hub closest to buyer's address) and insurance. Rigid mailer. Check out our other offerings as we get them listed. Happy to combine shipping. We do have tens of thousands of postcards from the Curt Teich Archives and will be listing them as well as tens of thousands of others ... all types and locales. Many are categorized. If you're looking for a certain topic, let us know. Selling on eBay as early as 1997. "The Mermaid" is also still a bonded auctioneer and real estate broker who spent the past "many" decades' specializing in books, ephemera, estates, and real estate. Just shy of two million books sold to date. Books and paper aside, if it is "Stuff", she has sold it! She has now returned to eBay. Health issues have brought us back. We are even selling our own collections! And ... we are picky. If we wouldn't add it to our own collections, we won't sell it. Hope you find something that you want, need, and, most important of all, will enjoy! We look forward to transacting with you and making new eBay friends and customers. Thanking you for your patronage in advance ... ! As to our "standard operating procedures": Our normal shipping & handling time is three (3) days. We ship weekdays with the exception of US federal holidays. We will ship with either free shipping or calculated shipping ... it depends on the given scenario. Often, calculated shipping will include insurance - again, depending on the item. Payment is expected at time of purchase or close of auction, whichever is applicable. This also applies to "best offer accepted" transactions. Non-paying purchasers or bidders will be blocked from future transactions. The same goes for winning bidders seeking to have sales cancelled. That said, prior to the end of any auctions, bids can be cancelled through the HELP section of eBay. If respective bidders are found to be cancelling bids in an excessive manner, however, they will be blocked from future transactions. Shill bidding is not tolerated and will be reported. "The Mermaid" is happy to ship globally.** (See below.) For such transactions, "calculated" shipping fees apply. Insurance will be required if not already included in applicable postal fee. **Unfortunately, there are a few destinations to which we cannot and will not ship. That circumstance involves a fluid dynamic the specifics of which may not be clear until point of sale. If such is the case, we will allow the transaction to be cancelled at our discretion and without any negative reporting made to eBay. WE ARE GLAD TO BE BACK!

Price: 12.99 USD

Location: Kingston, New Hampshire

End Time: 2025-02-14T05:14:22.000Z

Shipping Cost: 1.55 USD