Between about 1957 and 1967, the Chase Manhattan Bank, today JPMorgan Chase, ran a print advertising campaign that garnered some attention. It urged people of means to take care of their nest eggs.
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| The Chase Manhattan Bank, 1959 eBay listing accessed October 2, 2023 |
This nest egg ad campaign had many variations. It became familiar enough to make its way into a 1965 New Yorker cartoon by the one and only Charles Addams. The original has been listed on eBay since November 2022.
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| Charles Addams Framed original art The New Yorker, October 16, 1965, p. 48 |
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| Charles Addams's signature |
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| Nest egg with correction fluid |
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| Charles Addams eBay listing accessed November 8, 2022 https://www.ebay.com/itm/175480728649?hash=item28db776c49:g:mi8AAOSw~wljaTR6&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoN9iMhO65c%2BxNrPd4%2BmAdMdsn89F57H2VOfSh%2F4fGmJCaYISBfize6nkE4HdylvgXePEP2sriS1xpY8RQ IxuPGi1t0taRlCZRLiy21akXxpNSiBzxhE1sDvxqjHIVR4nP4ElILOcQoMvtEmdZHJg0FR294SIXaQs7yiRKdsNmxMRUxh6z8HCxD5ftQQ6LVMhOLOM9F9vngsX9X1vSoCCXVg%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR6S_uJuLYQ |
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| The cartoon is not "a take-off on EF Hutton" but on an ad campaign from the Chase Manhattan Bank. |
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| Charles Addams eBay item description |
The asking price was slowly lowered over the course of eleven months from $7,500 to $7,000 to $6,000, and the artwork sold yesterday for a Best Offer somewhere under $6,000.
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| November 8, 2022 |
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| July 2, 2023 |
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| October 2, 2023 |
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| Charles Addams The New Yorker, October 16, 1965, p. 48 |
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| Charles Addams Framed original art The New Yorker, October 16, 1965, p. 48 |
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| Cartoons by Charles Addams and Lee Lorenz |
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| The Chase Manhattan Bank, 1959 eBay listing accessed November 8, 2022 |
The cartoonist on the facing page of The New Yorker is Lee Lorenz. This was published eight years before he was to become the magazine's art editor.
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| "If this guy says 'What's new, Pussycat?' again, I say we eat him." Lee Lorenz The New Yorker, October 16, 1965, p. 49 |
"What's New Pussycat?"
Tom Jones
By Burt Bacharach and Hal David
1965
Note: Now I'm not the type to drop hints as to what sort of material should or should not be submitted to this blog for consideration in future posts. I simply would like to suggest, though, that the quantity of original art by Charles Addams showcased here already, while considerable, is not yet optimal.
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