Featured The Prudential Insurance Company 1889 Calendar

The Museum of Insurance appears to to be an internet collection of insurance company ephemera.

https://www.immediateannuities.com/museumofinsurance/calendar/1390122.html

 

Bakers, I also thought I'd mention that it's been an adventure going through the things I inherited from my mother since I never saw most of it before and didn't know it existed.

Even with items she had from before I was born or when I was young, she had stored them away and apparently never brought them out. Obviously I was aware of the decorative and household items in our house and any art she had on the walls. But there was so much more!

I'm happy to have it, but I kind of wish she'd shown me it all so we could have enjoyed it together....

 

That is the only place I could see the calendar and it does not appear to have a cover sheet like mentioned that had been removed. Thanks for all your input this has been a great learning experience. It will stay in the hope chest for another 50 years till I hand it down to the next generation. I also have some land deeds from the early 1900's signed by Theodore Roosevelt that are in the same hope chest.

 

Glad to hear the family archives will remain safe, Monte.

 

Several companies made reproductions of these older decorative calendars, 1970s-80s, especially. I don't think to deceive, just got started as a trend of sorts, older graphics had a popular resurgence, etc. As far as I know, the reproductions kept the original date. Here are several on Ebay, scroll down a bit:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fr...ndar.TRS2&_nkw=reproduction+calendar&_sacat=0

I agree, as mentioned, one would expect some wording somewhere indicating it was a reproduction. Most, but not all on Ebay, seem to have that.

That other items were in the box from the early 1900s is a good sign. It's a great image, no matter what. Maybe putting back in the box for the next generation is a strategy. Who knows what kind of advanced research tools will be available for them.

Edit: Not sure why the link to the Ebay list isn't working -- another way is just to search "reproduction calendar" on Ebay and scroll down.

 

Interesting... all of the repro calendars I looked at apparently were issued in a year where January 1st started on the same day of the week as it did in the original calendar. That's clever.