Dean's "Ma-Coney: The Toy of the Year" Retail Showcard Counting books - Specimens

Dean's "Ma-Coney: The Toy of the Year" Retail Showcard Counting books - Specimens(Dean's Rag Book Co.) DEAN'S "MA CONEY: THE TOY OF THE YEAR" RETAIL SHOWCARD. London: Dean's Rag Book Co., Ltd., [circa 1932]. 8 13 16" x 11 13 16". This card was designed to be displayed in a retail setting to promote the sale of the "Ma Coney" doll which Dean's produced between 1932 and 1937. Stiff cardstock with titles printed in black on a yellow background with a color pictorial paste on depicting "Ma Coney" with minute hints of rubbing to the

and the portraiture

COMPLETE IN ORIGINAL BOX

(Alphabet Books) THE ALPHABET OF COUNTRY SCENES

and is an outdoor portrait of five Shoshone Indians all wrapped in blankets

with slight sunning to the edges and spine

and the recipes for fifty mixed drinks popular at the turn of the 20th century (many of which are still popular today)

and age-tanned paper for what is still a nice copy of what is a rare survival of a 19th century pulp magazine

How the photograph was acquired by Thurlow appears to lost to history

The overall condition of the rag book is VERY GOOD +

opening with advice on securing "Free Vegetables - Hunt's Point market

Reading these raw

Yellow cloth covered boards decorated with multiple stylized steam locomotives printed in black