Gay as a gypsy, manufactured by Hodson Berg of Fifth Avenue. Probably didn't catch on, no definitive images online that I could find, but would probably suit a man in jodhpurs. The people look like our kinda people...
The artist George E Hughes appears to have been an illustrator for Saturday Night Post and other magazines.
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1920s, I guess, looking at the car. But boy that ad copy seems quaint and fustian. Interesting (well, slightly) that the writer sticks his adverbs in following his verbs (grace smartly, complete correctly). Awkward reading to the (my) 21st-c. eyeballs.
--rats
Meeh, nah, give me a Borsalino any day...
As a quarter Roma person, I resent that remark!
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