Old William Harden Foster Opportunity poster

[King Cobb]

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.

[OH Osthaus]

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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[King Cobb]

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.

[C.O.B.]

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]

Originally Posted by Rick Losey

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.
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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[King Cobb]

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.