Antique November 1, 1905 Gold Dust Twins Puck Cover Tin Sign

  

New York: Keppler & Schwarzmann / Puck, 1905. Rare Embossed Tin Color Broadside With Puck Heading, Numbered Vol. 149, Possibly An Advertising Display For That Issue Of Puck. A Prototypical Demonstration Of The Emerging Consciousness That The Modern Institutional Economic World Was Apparently Designed By Greedy, Self-Centered Drunken Seventeen Year Olds With Expectations Of Managing It When They Grew Up, With The Finer Structure Continually Redrawn By Self-Serving Politicians, Bureaucrats And Judges Concerned Mostly With Preserving Their Salaries. Contains 10 1/8" X 8 3/4" Color Illustration Of John D.

Rockefeller And Senator Aldrich Father-In-Law Of John D. A Classic Display From The Era Of Outspoken Political Outrage. To Add To The Satire, The Gold Dust Twins Washing Compound Was Owned By The Fairbanks Company, A "Rockefeller Concern", And The Company Was Subject To A Major Trade Union Dispute And Strike Led By William Z. Foster, Famous As Head Of The American Communist Party.