Exhibit Supply (4 results)

Condition: Near Fine. Made in U.S.A." blue variant, 3.25 x 5.25 inches, card stock, blank verso. Vintage arcade card featuring Tempest Storm seated on draped stool, adjusting straps of open-toed heels, w/ fishnet nylon stockings, shoulders & chest bare, brassiere just covering nipples & underbreast. These cards often featured women, notably actresses/burlesque artists, in provocative poses, in duotones. High-contrasts, cowgirls, art models, film stars, stripteasers, some with the subject's name printed on the recto. Cool collectibles at the time of production. Thanks to durable production, thousands remain in collectible condition. Slip in a coin and pull out a card, or hand-crank a sequential roll of cards. The Chicago company began early 1900s on the city's Printer's Row, earliest examples being sports cards (500-pack bricks of cards were issued wholesale to vendors). Others seen: Barbara Nichols, Carolfae Petersen, Laurette Luez, Mitzi Gaynor, also Tempest Storm bright sepia variant. Near Fine, faint rubbing to one front corner. Other cards also available.

Condition: Very Good Plus. Vintage arcade cards featuring non-nude women in provocative poses, in violet and blue duotone color printing, 2 are amateur models while 2 are burlesque performers (Tempest Storm, Lorita). Cool vending machine collectibles produced during the '30s-40s, and thanks to durable format thousands remain in attractive condition. Slip in a coin and pull out a card, or hand-crank a sequential roll of cards. The Chicago company began early 1900s in the city's Printer's Row, earliest examples being sports cards, and they also issued cowboy cards and musician cards, many with "Printed in U.S.A." statement. 500-pack bricks were issued wholesale to vendors. Others, like the New York EMR company, worked alike only producing cards with more novelty themes, like 2 women. All 3.25 x 5.25 inches, printed rectos, thick card stock. Very Good Plus overall, light foxing, rubbing, toning, brief surface loss at corners.

Condition: Very Good. [Chicago?]: [Exhibit Supply Co.], [ca. 1930s]. Original color poster (46.5x32cm.) printed silk screen on translucent wax paper. Top portion of poster backed with paper (torn), stock lightly wrinkled, else Very Good and sound. Comic poster depicting an attractive woman in her nightie booting her wimpy husband out of bed--his feet ensconced in blocks of ice. The Exhibit Supply Co. manufactured card dispensers, arcade games, and other machinery for the average pleasure-seeker. This poster may well have been back lit on one of their machines which were frequently confiscated in the 1920s and 1930s for encouraging illegal gambling.

Condition: Near Fine. [Chicago?]: [Exhibit Supply Co.], [ca. 1930s]. Original color poster (46.5x31.5cm.) printed on translucent wax paper. Light wrinkling, else a Near Fine example. Display poster advertising a fortune-telling arcade game manufactured by the Exhibit Supply Co., which often employed backlit posters on translucent stock. The image shows a romantic young couple sitting beside a moonlit lake. Exhibit Supply Co., which manufactured card dispensers and arcade games, often fell in with the law for producing machines that encouraged illegal gambling.