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John Gee - The Timbertoes - Highlights for Children - 1950s

Artist: John Gee (All)

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John Gee - The Timbertoes - Highlights for Children - 1950s Comic Art

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Title:	John Gee - The Timbertoes - Highlights for Children - 1950s
Artist:	John Gee (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	3,305
Likes on CAF:	5 6
Comments:	1
Added to Site:	5/13/2019
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Description

I rarely buy art because of nostalgia, but I could not resist picking up this sweet, sweet Timbertoes page from a likely early 1950s issue of Highlights for Children. John Gee illustrated a children's book with the same characters in the 1930s and brought them to the magazine in the early 50s. This one is marked with a number 8, but I have no idea if that refers to the eighth installment or something else. I have some research to do.

I read Highlights for Children as a young 'un, and while I found "Goofus and Gallant" to be simplistically moralistic, I gravitated to this wooden family, with the gentle humor and sweet drawing. All told, I have seen five Timbertoes pages hit the market, and that's only in the last two years. Heritage recently offered three pages for auction, and I thought this one was the best of the bunch. It has everything I could want in the feature.

The drawing is quite wonderful, and I've added some detail shots elsewhere on this page.

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	Rob Stolzer Premium Gallery Owner
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LEN CALLO
Member Since 2004

Posted on 5/17/2019

Very cool. I VAUGELY remember this strip from when I was a kid

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