This week Amy asked us to show pictures featuring our interpretation of “Old and New”. Am sure you would enjoy seeing Amy’s post which shows a mix of history, architecture and modern building.
She suggests we can explore fashion, collections, treasures….I decided to feature a hundred year old children’s book plus an advertisement featuring Mr Peanut, ninety years ago.
“Old books exert a strange fascination for me – their smell, their feel, their history. Wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.” – Lauren Willig
This series of pictures below are from a Mother Goose Book dated 1921. My mother passed this down to me many years ago and the pages are now brown and tattered with age and love. Even the beautiful illustrations are not like any you would see today in a newer version. I received another edition of Mother Goose when I was a child but unfortunately it is in storage at this time. One day though, it will be passed it on to my grandchildren along with this older 1921 book.
On the left is an old advertisement for Planters Peanuts Company from The Suffolk Cook Book, Revised Edition, and dated May, 1927. It is interesting to compare Mr. Peanut’s picture back then to the one on a new can of Planters Peanuts now. He still looks the same and just as good as ever after all these years! Wish all of us could age as well.
“I love everything that’s old, old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.” – Oliver Goldsmith