Blab-N-Slap

Everybody loves stickers. Mucilage'd back. One would imagine this would come from the 1950s or '60s. Found in a drawer while preparing to move.

Cute? Sexy? Demented?

Win, Lose or Draw

The box opens like a little book, and includes a charming bit of doggerel, quite as racy as the brunette and her imminent spillage.

I like a game where stakes are high
And I can take the other guy
For all he's worth (within the law)
And play it straight - Win, Lose or Draw!

From a church thrift store.

Winning Aces

This deck features two poems. The Burgundy Lady's poem:

In that crucial situation
When you've wagered all you own,
Let the others have their horseshoes,
I'll take a WISHING BONE!

The Green Lady, on the other hand, offers this sentiment:

Comes the big pot of the evening
And your bankroll's pretty flat,
Who can blame a gal for raising
When she's holding ACES PAT?

Whatever it is the Bowman Products Co. is selling, I'll take a case of it.

Hit the Deck

I was going to deal out a hand of Solitaire but the rotary phone rang.

Computers Are the Future

A bit off-topic but such fabulous ephemera. Higbee's is long gone, of course, as are most mid-century department stores. Computers, on the other hand, still look pretty much like this.

Shocker

That this was actually found in a thrift store is enough of a surprise, but that it's an actual 1935 imprint, not a 1940s or 1950s reprint, is even more surprising.

Scene of Weird Death

Stylish and disturbing. Red dress, green chaise, lavender hair, death pallor.

These Dell mysteries created a whole world for the reader. Trouble visualizing the scene of the crime? No matter, just flip the book over! Trouble comprehending what this mystery is about? Dell is on that too.

And in case you couldn't remember from page to page who was who....

1947.