Published by Margo Wine, [Philadelphia], 1950
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
A 1950s day-glo advertising board for Margo-brand sherry featuring African American crooner Nat King Cole. Cardboard sign printed in black, white, green, and pink. Measures 11.75" x 9". Good+ with small tear to bottom edge, bumped and worn corners, light wear (heavier on verso), original adhesive strips on verso still intact. An eye-catching piece of ephemera, showing one of America's best-known Black entertainers of the 1950s. Among Cole's many achievements was that in 1956 his TV show was the first nationally broadcast television show hosted by an African American.