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my grandma had a similar frog. i let my cousin have it cause i have more now.
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too far/nice fur
342 OBJECT
RARE 1919 STATUE/ashtray THE MODERN ICEMEN frigidaire by GENERAL MOTORS= $20
Dirty jokes are as much a part of male puberty as a breaking voice, and the themes of these jokes remains the same, generation to generation. Only the characters change. In my day, a lot of these sexy jokes involved traveling salesmen with the farmer’s daughter, or possibly the milkman and lonely housewife. However, in the previous generation, the iceman was often the featured character.
The man on this advertising ashtray is a depiction of something Frigidaire wrote about in their early ads: “The Modern `Iceman' Calls Once with Frigidaire and the Ice Stays Always.” On his shoulder is a Frigidaire compressor that would convert your icebox into a refrigerator. Without intention, the folks at Frigidaire found themselves mentioned in many a teenage boy’s dirty joke because of their ads insinuating that Frigidaire replaced the iceman.
Since all those ads started in the same year General Motors bought the fledgling company called “Frigidaire,” I’ll bet there were some irritated suits grumbling around the executive suites in Flint, Michigan.
It should clean up nicely. If this is your first visit with us here at aka341, you may not know this: I don’t clean things. What I find is what you get. There is too much hanky-panky in the rough and tumble world of antiques and collectibles already. I choose not to play.
That’s just one of the ads I found reproduced on the Internet.
The piece is actually in nice condition. It is white metal, known to be quite fragile. However, there are no splits or breaks. The only losses are to the surface paint. Normally, I’d not recommend such a thing, but in this case, I think a carefully done repaint is in order.
Dang! All my blabbering about dirty jokes, icemen and whatnot makes me want to dig out an old copy of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh and step back once again into the seedy side of life in “The Village” set right about the time Frigidaire produced this piece.
Spoiler alert: Hickey was the iceman, but not literally. KnowWhatIMean?
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torture chamber augsberg
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i did NOT do this. boonies + EEEW, is this the future? baby boomer crap???
horrible tacky art.
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FLUFFY ANIMAL
FLUFFY COW? looks like a poodle.
That’s just one of the ads I found reproduced on the Internet.
Spoiler alert: Hickey was the iceman, but not literally. KnowWhatIMean?
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