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<p>1948 VINTAGE COVER LITHO ART LIDUV SHIP FIGUREHEAD SAIL NAUTICAL VO106<p>

DESCRIPTION OF ITEM -  AN ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATED LITHOGRAPHIC COVER (cover only) OR ARTWORK FROM A VINTAGE FORTUNE PERIODICAL...  BEING SOLD AS IS WITH ALL FAULTS AS SEEN IN PHOTO(S).

Fortune was founded by The Atlantic Monthly Company co-founder Henry Luce in 1929 as "the Ideal Super-Class Magazine", a "distinguished and de luxe" publication "vividly portraying, interpreting and recording the Industrial Civilization".^[5] Briton Hadden, Luce's business partner, was not enthusiastic about the idea – which Luce originally thought to title Power – but Luce went forward with it after Hadden's sudden death on February 27, 1929.^[6]

In late October 1929, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 occurred, marking the onset of the Great Depression. In a memo to the Time Inc. board in November 1929, Luce wrote: "We will not be over-optimistic. We will recognize that this business slump may last as long as an entire year."^[7] The publication made its official debut in February 1930. Its editor was Luce, managing editor Parker Lloyd-Smith, and art director Thomas Maitland Cleland.^[8] Single copies of the first issue cost US$1 ($15.3 in 2019).^[7] An urban legend says that Cleland mocked up the cover of the first issue with the $1 price because no one had yet decided how much to charge; the magazine was printed before anyone realized it, and when people saw it for sale, they thought that the magazine must really have worthwhile content. In fact, there were 30,000 subscribers who had already signed up to receive that initial 184-page issue. By 1937, the number of subscribers had grown to 460,000, and the magazine had turned half million dollars in annual profit.

IMAGE SIZE -  PLEASE SEE THE PHOTO AND USE MEASUREMENTS ON EDGES.

DATE OF ORIGINAL COVER - SEE TITLE

THE COLLECTING OF MAGAZINE COVER ART IS  INTRIGUING IN THE SENSE OF "THE FIND" AND ALSO "THE BRAG"...  BEING IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD - EPHEMERAL, MOST MAGAZINES WERE NOT INTENDED FOR LONG TERM SURVIVAL.  STARTING WITH THE FIRST MAG (ie: The Gentleman's Magazine, first published in 1731, in London, considered to have been the first general-interest magazine) MOST WERE READ and REREAD AS THEY WERE PASSED ALONG BUT EVENTUALLY MOST WOULD END UP IN THE  TRASH OR THE SCRAP PAPER BUYERS CART...  AND SO THE ENJOYMENT OF COLLECTION MAGAZINES AND THEIR SUPERLATIVE COVER ART BEGAN.

WARS, HATE MONGERS, BOOK BINDERS, SCRAP DRIVES, RODENTS, MOLD AND FIRE HAVE TAKEN THEIR TOLL UPON SURVIVAL... ALONG WITH  FLOODS, TORNADOES AND OTHER NATURAL DISASTERS WHICH CONTINUALLY REDUCE THE AVAILABLE NUMBER OF COLLECTIBLE COVERS TO ENJOY, PURCHASE AND SHOW OFF..

AS WITH ALL EPHEMERA - CONDITION SCARCITY, CONDITION, DESIRABILITY, CONDITION, AND.... DID I MENTION ... CONDITION... ARE THE PRIME FACTORS INVOLVED IN PRICE.. 

PERFECT COVER ARE IS RARE --- AND PRICED ACCORDINGLY !

MOST COVERS PRIOR TO 1880 WERE PRINTED ON ACID FREE PAPER... AFTER THAT PAPER QUALITY CONTINUES TO DECLINE..

IT IS ALWAYS BEST TO USED ACID-FREE STORAGE + MOUNTING PRACTICES IN COLLECTING MAG COVERS..

Cover art it is either an artwork as illustration or photograph on the outside of a published product such as a book (often on a dust jacket), magazine, comic book, .........). The art has a primarily commercial function, i.e. to promote the product it is displayed on, but can also have an aesthetic function, and may be artistically connected to the product, such as with art by the creator of the product.

MOST COVER ART COLLECTORS PURCHASE WITH THE VIEW OF COLLECTING PER PERIODICAL NAME, ARTIST, STYLE, SUBJECT MATTER, OR DATE...  OUR LISTINGS THUS STRIVE TO USE IN THE TITLE THESE SEARCHABLE PARAMETERS  


As decorative art these COVERS give you - the buyer - an opportunity to purchase and enjoy fine graphics

As graphic collectors ourselves, we take great pride in doing the best job we can to preserve and extend the wonderful historic graphics of the past.

Should you have any questions please feel free to email us and we will do our best to clarify.

We ship in .... CUSTOM MAILER TUBES..... WE SHIP COVERS ROLLED + PROTECTED BY PLASTIC BAG

For multiple purchases ..... please wait for our invoice... OTHERWISE WE CANNOT DISCOUNT THE SHIPPING COST......THANKS.