May 09 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2668 -

Sale 2668 - Lot 52

Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000

DESIGNER UNKNOWN

WHAT'S YOUR SCORE? / EVERYBODY LIKES THE SNAPPY WORKER. 1929.

44x36¼ inches, 111¾x92 cm. Mather & Company, Chicago.
Condition B+: repaired tears, creases and abrasions in margins; flaking and creases in upper right margin; minor creases in image; punch holes at top filled in.

Mather & Company printed approximately 350 motivational work-incentive posters between 1923 and 1929, some by commercial artists such as Willard Frederic Elmes and Robert Beebe, but most are anonymous. The printing house was a family-owned and managed business by Harry Mather and his son Charles Mather. Salesman Charles Rosenfeld, who purportedly suggested the idea of the workplace posters to Charles Mather, left the company in 1925 to create his own poster and postcard-printing company, C.J. Howard Inc. This poster is most often seen with a black lower margin, against which the printer's information at the bottom is printed in white. Tennis p. 14, L'Affiche Tennis 69.
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