Vintage Mermaids and Ship
by Peggy Collins
Title
Vintage Mermaids and Ship
Artist
Peggy Collins
Medium
Painting - Vintage Illustration - Painting
Description
Vintage illustration of five mermaids and a sinking schooner, which is an antique ad for "Ayer's Hair Vigor for the Toilel" which claims that it "restores gray hair to its natural vitality and color". Four of the mermaids are gathered together by some palm trees on an island, brushing their hair, while the fifth mermaid is swimming out to the sinking ship with a box of hair tonic...how will the tonic save the sailors? It's a good question but I guess this all made sense back in the early 1900s when this ad was current. At the bottom of the painting is the text, "Prepared by J.C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. USA.
Another version of this old painting without the text is also available.
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May 9th, 2021
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