Why should you buy vintage magazine ads?

‘Cause they’re FUN!

Remember that fancy party dress Mom wore to the Country Club, Dad’s favorite fishing lure or the family’s first new car?  Those items may be gone but you can take a walk down memory lane with the old ads. 

Old advertisements are colorful, nostalgic, and are an excellent and inexpensive way to change your décor in just a few moments.  Take a simple frame with a simple mat and you can change the ad to fit your mood in the blink of an eye.  We have several in our bathrooms, kitchen and laundry room and a selection of ads to rotate every month or so. 

If you collect it, there is an ad for it and there are as many reasons to collect old ads as there are reasons to collect the things they advertise.  Magazine advertisements are a wonderful research tool to confirm a specific date or perhaps the color of an item.  And by purchasing a single ad you don’t have to store the entire magazine and can view it anytime you wish.  Verify your collection or hang it on the wall just because it makes you smile. 

Not everyone can afford an authentic painting or even a print, but through the vintage magazines, we can all afford to decorate our offices, game rooms, nurserys or any room in the house with fabulous art from yesteryear.  Artists such as Norman Rockwell, Everett S Ward, Joyce Ballantyne, Francis Tipron Hunter and Lynn Bogue Hunt created art pieces that have become icons of our culture.  You will find some ads are signed and some are not.  Ballantyne was famous for her Coppertone Ad in 1959. “It was hardly the only art I ever produced," she told the St. Petersburg Times in 2004. "But that's what everybody remembers."

Remember all of these fine artists with vintage magazine advertisements.   Be sure to check our store Chez Cemetarian and see the many eras and items available.