1940's Calenders: Varga & Contemporaries
JHall
Reasonable offers considered. Details available to interested parties.
Calenders:
1. 9 Varga Girls, paintings by Varga verse by Phil Stack on
magazine stock (not glossy) from Esquire Mag. 1944 but
the month is not mentioned, each piece is 13.25" x 17.50",
folded but with no stapling, slightly discoloured and the
corners & edges are in excellent condition except for #1
with the top left-hand corner intact but rough:
Desc: Varga Girl / Reverse Side (artist) and each one is 20.00
1. Beached for the Duration /
The Pilot Who Wouldn't Bail Out (Falter)
2. Song for a Lonely Girl /
Bayonet Fighter with Wings (Leydenfrost)
3. Sitting Pretty /
Dempsey & Firpo (Bellows)
4. Torch Singer (April - as mentioned) /
The Mission to Port Lyautey (Falter)
5. Matrimony Preferred (June - Weddings) /
The Gaint Killer (Falter)
6. Pistol Packin' Mama /
Keeper of the Faith (Falter)
7. All-American Babe (Feb. ? Baseball - Spring Trng ?) /
Out at Home (Martin (Fletcher, not Billy))
8. Patriotic Gal /
The Private Who Led the Attack (Falter)
9. Some Pumpkins (Nov.)/
Tommy Hitchcock: Ten Goal American (Palazzo)
2. Equire's 1944 Varga Calendar Yearbook, a self contained
portfolio (wood paneling in blue) with Varga's signature
on the front cover, first 2 pages have 10 Bar Checkpayer
Tricks followed by a page with a Varga Girl and a page
with the appropriate month written in the top center,
the preceding month top left and succeding month top
right, a cartoon done by one of Esquire's cartoonist
which takes up 1/3 beside the month in question (2/3).
The cartoonists are as follows;
January - O'Malley
February - Huffine
March - Norment
April - O'Malley
May - blank (no signature)
June - Angelo
July - Lowell Hoppes
August - blank (no signature)
September - Campbell
October - bon uleh. (??)
November - ...Ron (??)
December - Lowell Hoppes (NM) 100.00
3. The 1945 Esquire Varga Calendar, 12 drawings, 8.5" x 12" with
2 4-ring plastic spirals in original envelope (both NM) 75.00
4. Esquire, Inc. 1952 calendar, 6 drawings, 12" x 14.75", metal
bracing, each drawing covers the upper half of the page
with the lower portion an ad for Steel Supplies Limited
and the months (2) are blocked in alternating shades of
yellow and blue and the artist is the Varga-like
E. Chirialca 45.00
Playing Cards:
1. "Comme Ci, Comme Ca !" (Anything Goes) by Varga issued by
G. H. Waldock, Inc., The Best-Beef-Veal-Lamb company, as
an advertising ploy. These Redi-Slip Remembrance playing
cards were distributed by Brown & Bigelow of St. Paul,
Minn. The package containing 2 decks of cards is made of
cardboard with a picture on the front. The rest of the
package is covered with a gold-like tinfoil. The package
is in VG condition. There is a gold coloured inner cover
and a Redi-Slip inspector's slip in the package but there
is no tax stamp. The card decks are in NM and M (unopened)
condition. The 52 playing cards plus 1 joker showing a
Varga girl and the other joker giving a brief synopsis
of Alberto Varga. The backs of the cards are wine
coloured with a white mask depicting comedy and a black
mask depicting tradegy. The backs' colour which is green
for the opened deck and orangey for the deck still wrapped
in the original cellophane which has a small tear at the
top. 275.00
2. "Vive les girls" (Long Live The Girls) M & H Playing Card Co.,
Granite City, Ill. The package is in G+ condition with
the only fault being the girlie card that was on the
outside is gone. The cards, 52 playing, 1 joker with
girlie shot and the other joker with some advertising are
in NM condition. The backs of the cards are deep blue
with wavey lines and the picture of a winking, top-hatted
wolf in the middle of a 8-pointed compass with 4 small
female figures, one on every second compass point, each
representing one of the seasons. 75.00
Not Varga:
1. "The DECK" by INK, INC. of N.Y. N.Y. 2 card decks in a hard
plastic case (M) with a clear top and black bottom with
a white cardboard outer sleeve. The decks are the creation
of 5 well known artists whose cartoon work graces the pages
of The New Yorker magazine. Please forgive me but I am
hard pressed to give you all 5 of their names because I
can not make out some of their signatures. However, the
clubs were done by Lorenz, the jokers and cardbacks by
Ziegcer, for the hearts it looks like W. Soleig and for
the diamonds R. Cerast or R. Chrast and finally for spades
a cute, wavey line. 100.00
2. A 1947 calendar with 12 images by Petty, a comtemporary of
Vargas' work. The calendar measures approx. 9" x 12"
with both the cardboard backing and plastic ring holder
intact. The months show very little wear or aging 60.00
3. Folies Bergere at the Casino D'enghien 11 kilometers from
Paris - a 32 page pictorial (colour & B/W) display (NM) of
the entertainment available at this reknown establishment,
the cover is done in soft black felt with the title
"Folies Bergere" and a profile of a kneeling nude female
done in gold gilt, a sheet of glossy paper separates the
outer cover from the first & last pages. The cover is in
G+ condition with 1 tear (0.25") a third of the way up the
right hand side and the top left corner is missing a very,
very small piece of felt 35.00
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