ca. 1800's - Prudential Insurance Co., Newark, NJ - Authentic Antique Card
"Prudential" ... written on the spine of the 19th Century Antiquarian Leather Ledger Book / Wax Seal.
"Take Time by the Forelock." ... Elves, Pixies, Brownies, Wee Folk, ? / Grim Reaper Harvest Scythe, Sickle
All-Time Classic 19th Century Business Advertising Card - Feather Quill and Ink Pot, Humor, etc.
SIZE: M - Approx. 3.125 x 5 inches - Condition... shows age with flaws. Please study the scans.
Father Time / Death Rider of Apocalypse / Grim Reaper - parody image
- Personifications often associated with December 31, New Years Eve; January 1, New Year Day.
In recent centuries he is usually depicted as an
elderly bearded man, sometimes with wings, dressed in a robe and carrying a scythe and an
hourglass or other timekeeping device (which represents time's constant one-way movement,
and more generally and abstractly, entropy). He is used in allegory, as a god of myth and mythology, etc.
As an image Father Time's origins are curious. The ancient Greeks themselves began to associate
chronos, their word for time, with the agricultural god Cronos, who had the attribute of a harvester's sickle.
The Romans equated Cronos with Saturn, who also had a sickle, and was treated as an
old man, often with a crutch. The wings and hourglass were early Renaissance additions and
he eventually became a companion of the
Grim Reaper, personification of Death, often taking his scythe. (Wikipedia)
125+ Years Old - Antique 19th Century Card: Farm and Household -related Business Advertising Card
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