Old William Harden Foster Opportunity poster
 

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.

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

Nice!

I wonder if it started out as a calendar?


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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.

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.

...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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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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Should i try to bind the tear with anything?

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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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.

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

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

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.

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:

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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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