Old William Harden Foster Opportunity poster

[Bill Holcombe]

Picked this up cheap in an old junk shop in the big city of Crowell, Tx today. It has a tear in it unfortunately, but it appears to be a vintage old add.

[Rick Losey]

always liked that print,

learned a long time go to not leave lunch unguarded around a setter, they assume the sad eye look will always get them out of trouble

[Dean Romig]

Nice!

I wonder if it started out as a calendar?


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[Bill Holcombe]

Not sure, it has a blue border around it the shotshell wording but now that I look at deans it appears to have it as well.

Copyright o it is 1930 and it says its lithographed.

[Rich Anderson]

The old sporting art is so cool. Saw some nice stuff at the Southern but wall space is maxed out here and in the cabin.

Even with the tear thats a nice piece of history.

[Dean Romig]

always liked that print,

learned a long time go to not leave lunch (see below) unguarded around a setter, they assume the sad eye look will always get them out of trouble


...or birthday cake on the table.
...or hamburgers fresh off the grille - I hope it burned her tongue.
...or fresh cookies a friend brought when she came for a visit that were arranged on a dish on the coffee table.
...the list goes on and on...





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[Dean Romig]

I have a few but my favorite is the one I found in the small office in the main kennel house at 73 Dascomb Rd - Glen Rock Kennels - which had probably served as the meeting place of some of the very first "skeeters".

I have always intended to preserve it in framed glass mounting... but I like that it's just hanging where I put it the day I brought it home.

It's not a Foster but is a Lynn Bogue Hunt, which is almost as good. :cool:
And I'm quite sure it is from a calendar. The lower 2" has been glued to the upper 25" piece - the month's days obviously having been cut out.


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[Bill Holcombe]

Should i try to bind the tear with anything?

[Dean Romig]

I wouldn't. It kind of supports the authenticity. The poster was glued to the wood when it was still somewhat green but when the wood dried and shrunk the paper split.





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[Bill Murphy]

In my former life, I had a great Irish Setter, Rusty. My neighbor across the street was cooling an angel food cake on her back porch. Rusty got wind of that cake and cleared a 4 1/2 foot picket fence and had the cake down and eaten before my neighbor could react. Those were the days when bird dogs ran free, regardless of their value. I had never seen Rusty clear a fence that high in the field. Oh, well.

[Eric Eis]

...or birthday cake on the table.
...or hamburgers fresh off the grille - I hope it burned her tongue.
...or fresh cookies a friend brought when she came for a visit that were arranged on a dish on the coffee table.
...the list goes on and on...





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You forgot the fresh Beef Tenderloin that was snatched off kitchen table when my back was turned :cuss: ! Setters...................

[Rich Anderson]

You will never see such wanton gluttony from my GSP:whistle::rolleyes:

[Bill Murphy]

Rich, funny you should mention that. My Wirehair, Eva, would never think about stealing food from the serving area. By the way, Bill, I question the originality of your print. William Harden Foster? Our friend's actual name is William Harnden Foster.

[Bill Holcombe]

Rich, funny you should mention that. My Wirehair, Eva, would never think about stealing food from the serving area. By the way, Bill, I question the originality of your print. William Harden Foster? Our friend's actual name is William Harnden Foster.

My apologies Mr. Murphy. Fat fingers on a cell phone strike again.

[Eric Eis]

You will never see such wanton gluttony from my GSP:whistle::rolleyes:

Yeah right :rotf:

Thing was I turned my back Libby grabbed one of the steaks swallowed it whole (6 total) went to the backdoor and threw it up ! Whole not a tooth mark on it ! I wanted to wash it off and grill it but Vickie had a fit and the only thing out of her mouth was "No". To me the steak was fine, wash it off nobody knows, but No was all I heard:whistle:

[Dean Romig]

I would have done the same thing Eric.

I think they (wives) believe they were put on this earth to save us from ourselves..... as if we needed saving. :rotf:





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[Russell E. Cleary]

Help needed in identifying the high-energy food items depicted in the OPPORTUNITY poster.
My best guesses. From top to bottom:

hunk of pound cake
Semi-circle of….pie dessert? (pizza too anachronistic for 1930)
A plain doughnut
lettuce
sandwich with two slices of spam visible