Original Antique 1913 Pabst American Girl Calendar framed print SET 2 for Sale

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Original Antique 1913 Pabst American Girl Calendar framed print SET 2 For Sale

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Original Antique 1913 Pabst American Girl Calendar framed print SET 2:
$999.99

For your consideration is a wonderful pair of genuine original pre-prohibition breweriana \"yardlongs\". Both of these ladies were actually hidden behind miscellaneous non-valuable reprints of ship related articles/images. Out of pure luck I wanted to verify the dis-authenticity of the sailing related items due the frames being very nice, turn of the century real-wood and real glass frames with matting and old-style staves rather than the modern framing nails. Upon removing the backing, behind those cheap prints where what the original owner was hiding: rare pre-prohibition Victorian style yardlongs! Kept out of the sun for at least the last 50 years!
The first is a young lady in a purple dress, easily attributed to Pabst in 1916. Condition of this is overall great for the age and being of thin paper. The largest issue is the bottom which has worn away as shown and it common among these yardlongs. Otherwise there is some soiling but the colors are unusually vivid. Someone willing to invest in professional restoration may end up with colors as bright as originally printed. This print has been adhered on it\'s rear to the cardboard backing as shown. I have not tried to remove this as it was a professional job and looks very good (no bubbles, wrinkles, etc).
The second young lady with the parasol is a little harder to confidently attribute. There are 1970\'s reprints everywhere (even the cheap 1970\'s mass printings sell for ~$100!) and most attribute this to a 1913 Pabst advertisement, though some tie her to Stroh\'s. While she does not suffer the same damage at the bottom as the girl in the purple dress, unfortunately one of the ship prints dating back to the ~1950\'s that was actually being displayed appears to have reacted with this yardlong and caused what appears to be a shadow from roughly her torso to roughly her calves. While imperfect, this is an EXTREMELY rare print to find in original form, which is the high-quality lithograph you see. Very few were made, and very few of these thin paper pieces survived. Aside from the shading this is well-kept with no sign of ever being displayed. Similar to the girl in the purple dress this was also professionally adhered to a stronger backing. SCARCE even compared to other pre-prohibition advertising.
Frames are nearly but no-quite matching, but look excellent together and that is why we\'re electing to keep these two together. By all accounts they\'ve been friends for at least 50 years, likely longer as these frames date back ~100 years and aren\'t exactly common sizes. Money always talks, but we are inclined to keep them together.
FREE shipping to the USA and we\'re happy to ship internationally at cost. Please note we reserve the right to change the shipping company based on costs to your location, regardless of the company it will still be a 1-5 day service with full tracking and insurance. Thanks for looking!