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Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. OUR NOTES:
The publisher’s title on this book doesn’t do justice to the contents! Have you ever gone to an auction, antique shop, flea market, garage sale or thrift store and spotted a vintage advertising character toy… but couldn’t quite remember which company used that character as the personification of their product?
This book solves that problem for you, by correctly identifying the characters of years gone by for over 500 vintage consumer products and/or their parent companies. Examples include the female dancing Chiquita banana, Tony the Tiger (Exxon), Quik Bunny (Nestle), Quench soda, and many more.
So far as I’m aware no other guide addresses specifically this topic in such an easy to use format. Collectors and Dealers will find this guide quite valuable.
--- John Kincaid, Collector Bookstore
PUBLISHER’S DESCRIPTION:
Meet Mr. Product -- Here in Meet Mr. Product you'll find a vibrantly colorful tribute to such pop-culture icons as the Jolly Green Giant, natty Mr. Peanut, the cute little Morton Salt Girl, and the countless other advertising characters who have been helping us navigate the grocery aisles and choose our products for years.
Offering up a bustling gallery of over 500 spokes-characters, this chunky compendium charts the origins and development of the advertising character and gives brief glimpses into some of their most intimate secrets. (Did you know that the Michelin Man has been spotted with glamorous ladies on his arm? Or that Bordens Elsie the Cow was married to Elmer of household glue fame?) Famous faces and a host of recently rediscovered characters fill Meet Mr. Products pages to bursting.
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