Gambling Dogs: Poker Card Game Advertising Postcard, circa 1906 - Never Mailed

Item Details

St. Paul, Minnesota / Waukegan, Illinois, C.M. Coolidge / Brown & Bigelow, Copyright 1906, Card Playing Dogs

100+ years old / Authentic Antique, Vintage Postcard

(Two Versions Available) 

"Cyclone Fence ... Success instead of a 'WATERLOO.'"

(OR... your choice, same price for either one)

Same card Imprinted for: Lawther Grain, Dallas, TX

(see far below for info on the Texas postmarked version)

C.M. Coolidge:   Antique Vintage Advertising Postcard: 

Poker Dogs Playing Cards - "In short, Victory and Success instead of a 'Waterloo.'"
SIZE: Approx. 5.5 x 3.5 inches.  Condition:  Displays with age flaws as shown.

NOTE SIGN above the poker table:

"There is no 'Waterloo' for 'Cyclone.'"

Advertising Text front and back cleverly incorporates the name of the famous painting of the day pictured on the front of the card.

NOTE: higher resolution scans available upon request.  Also, more Historically Important 19th Century Victorian Trade Cards and Vintage Americana Ephemera always available 24-7 as Buy It Now at the  Dave Cheadle Card Store

110+ years old - Artist:   "C.M. Coolidge" / Cassius Marcellus Coolidge
Advertising Postcard = "Charles" signature MIGHT be the sales rep?

"A Waterloo." / "Photo-Color by Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul, U.S.A." - Anthropomorphic Dogs Play Poker    
Artist Signed: "C.M. Coolidge" /  - "Copyright 1906 by C.M. Coolidge" 
Reverse: "POST CARD"  and farm, home and garden supply company advertising
NOTE:   "A Waterloo." (Copyright 1906)  St. Bernard, Bulldog, Cane Corso, Collie, Doberman Pinscher  
 
Dogs Playing Poker, by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, refers collectively to an 1894 painting, and
an early 1900's series of sixteen oil paintings commissioned by Brown & Bigelow to advertise cigars.
All eighteen paintings in the overall series feature anthropomorphized dogs, 
but the eleven in which dogs are seated around a card table have become 
well known as examples of kitsch art in home decoration. Depictions and reenactments of the series 
have appeared in many films, television shows, theater productions, and other popular culture art forms.Critic Annette Ferrara has described Dogs Playing Poker as 
"indelibly burned into ... the American collective-schlock subconscious ...
... through incessant reproduction on all manner of pop ephemera".

The first painting, Coolidge's 1894 Poker Game, sold for $658,000 at a 2015 auction. On February 15, 2005,

the originals of "A Bold Bluff" and "A Waterloo" were auctioned as a pair to an undisclosed buyer for US $590,400.  (Wikipedia)

re:  "Lawther Grain Co." /  Dallas Mayor Joe Lawther -

Dallas Mayer Joseph Lawther (February 11, 1876 – April 24, 1943) was an American banker, civic leader, and mayor of Dallas, Texas, from 1917–1919. He entered the business world in the grain business, Lawther & Son, the firm of his father. He became president of Liberty State Bank and was responsible for its growth. He also served as president of Guardian Federal Savings & Loan Association.

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