Featured A VERY COOL THRIFT STORE FIND!!

I saw this old cruise ship menu at a local thrift store & bought it right away - I had 2 concorde menus at home already + I liked the Hawaiian feast artwork on it.
When I got it home & googled 1954 S.S. Lurline menu - I found out that artist was Eugene Savage; a well known & listed American artist & sculptor!
But the menus I saw looked much better than mine - until I opened the back & saw that someone had displayed the menu choices instead of the menu art!

Now I have a bit of a dilemma - do I leave it as is & sell it on eBay, or reverse it & sell it with the artwork framed?
Thanks!

 

Double sided frame.
They also make magntic acrylic standing double sided which are inexpensive.

 

Which solves your dilemma!!!!!

 

Can't you take it out of the frame and just sell it as a menu? Emphasize the illustrator and cruise ship. I don't think the current frame works at all.

What is the picture that is shown on front? Looks like it's been taped in place? It's badly faded and has left tape stains. Comparing that picture to the full image on the back you can see that all the red has leached away.

If you want to sell it framed, I'd look for something more appropriately sized and favor that large illustration.

 

Double Mat to make it fit a frame!!!

 

"....Chilled Hearts of Celery"

I love these old menus!

 

I don't think even double matting would work with that frame

 

Me too! "Braised Sweetbreads with Burgundy Sauce." Heaven!!!

 

Oh. There were pictures...?

 

MOS....note my wording....."a frame"........

 

One of the problems with something like this is that it was never intended to be framed.

 

I do like the illustration. I can easily see a collector of cruise ship memorabilia or menus being very interested.

 

My mother only made sweetbreads once when I was very small so I don't really remember them, but she had a restaurant at one time and was a very good chef. When she wanted to be. In later years, her specialties tended to be instant potatoes and canned stew.

 

Hi, Bev! One of my mother's wartime specialties was salmon (canned) loaf, covered with creamed (canned) peas.

 

Hi,
When my Gram made sweetbreads she would never say what it was. She always said "Don't ask just eat it"
greg

 

I've had a few people tell me what 'sweetbreads' were (or so they thought), and trust me!.....NONE said they were even CLOSE to being "the thymus or the pancreas, from veal (calf) and lamb, and sometimes, beef or pork", which I think I might have LOVED........had I truly known!!!!!!!!! I've always loved chicken livers with onions & bacon, or the same with veal kidneys!!!!! Can't even FIND veal kidneys anymore!!!!

 

...thankfully. I don't think I could eat a kidney. Fried, chopped chicken liver with onion and chopped boiled egg ...yum... Beef liver is another matter.

 

Years ago, when I had my kidney transplant, I was a moderator for an online support group (based in the UK) for kidney patients. I made a number of great friends there - not surprisingly, most of them are in the UK.

THREE different friends from that group had kidney transplants in London, and for their first, post-transplant, solid meal, ALL THREE were served STEAK & KIDNEY PIE! I can't even imagine...

 

That's simultaneously funny and disturbing. Not with a fine chianti, I hope, and a side of fava beans. That would be for a liver transplant.

 

LOL!