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[thebitterguy]

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[easyalchemy.livejournal.com]

http://images.google.ca/images?q=Currier+and+Ives&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

Sounded more like picture prints to me, to which I would answer 'nothing'.

[papajoemambo.livejournal.com]

Currier and Ives basically produced a lot of work for mass consumption that looks like all of those Dickensian Christmas scenes, or little Charles Foster Kane playing with his Rosebud before he's taken away to be an Evil Zillionairetm

Think of "Rich Little's Christmas Carol" and you have a Currier and Ives print, but with more Carol Channing.

[lynne-h.livejournal.com]

So are these things period or simulated period tacky twee naffness?

[thebitterguy]

Ahhh. Do you guys have any of their stuff in stock? Just out of morbid curiosity.

Period vs simulated period

[absinthe-dot-ca.livejournal.com]

They were "real period" - it was a company in the 1800s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currier_and_Ives) producing prints for mass consumption. They also did more than just winter prints - it's just that the schmaltzy stuff is what the powers-that-be thinks will sell, you know?

Re: Period vs simulated period

[lynne-h.livejournal.com]

Lovingly know as "chocolate box" over here; never really existed, but somehow exactly what everyone thinks of when they think of period winters, as opposed to lots of poor sods freezing and/or starving to death.

[papajoemambo.livejournal.com]

We had a couple of calendars for a while but some Christmas-Crazed shopper picked them up about a year ago.

They're all over the place in those kind of high-to-mid-end poster shops.