Vintage 1935 Viking Broom Label NOS NROG National Retailer Owned Grocers Chicago Art Deco Nautical Ship Dated Collectible 🧹 terrier_breed_art These were not high-art productions

These were not high-art productions

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and in the early years of the twentieth century

by the mid-twentieth century

Vintage 1935 Viking Broom Label NOS NROG National Retailer Owned Grocers Chicago Art Deco Nautical Ship Dated Collectible 🧹 terrier_breed_art These were not high-art productionsWhat Does It Take for a Piece of Commercial Art to Stop You Cold Ninety Years Later? There is a specific kind of collector moment that veterans of the paper ephemera world know intimately and that newcomers, once they experience it, never quite get over. You are moving through a flat of old stock, fingers flipping quickly, half your attention already somewhere else, and then one image makes your hand stop. Not gradually. Immediately. The image has