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<p>1912 SMITH HOLIDAY THANKSGIVING PRAYER BREAD DISHWARE ORIGINAL COVER ART COV266<p>

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

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

DATE OF ORIGINAL COVER - SEE TITLE

Jessie Willcox Smith (September 6, 1863 – May 3, 1935) was one of the most prominent female illustrators in the United States during the Golden Age of American illustration. She was a prolific contributor to respected books and magazines during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She illustrated stories and articles for clients such as Century,Collier's, Leslie's Weekly, Harper's, McClure's, Scribners, and the Ladies' Home Journal. She had an ongoing relationship with Good Housekeeping, including the long-running Mother Goose series of illustrations and creating all the covers from 1915 to 1933. Among the more than 60 books that Smith illustrated were Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline, and Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses.

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated in Canada and the United States. It was originally celebrated as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. Thanksgiving is celebrated on thesecond Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. Several other places around the world observe similar celebrations. Although Thanksgiving has historical roots in religious and cultural traditions, it has long been celebrated in a secular manner as well.

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 WHERE NOT INTENDED FOR LONG TERM SURVIVAL.  STARTING WITH THE FIRST MAG (ie: The Gentleman's Magazine, first published in1731, in London,considered to have been the first general-interest magazine) MOST WERE READ, + 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..

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.

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

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