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Posted 8 months ago
mustangtony
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This is a 1954 magazine advertisement for John Jameson Irish Whiskey imported by W.A. Taylor & Company, New York, NY
--- The company was established in 1780 when John Jameson established the Bow Street Distillery in Dublin. By the turn of the 19th century, it was the second largest producer in Ireland and one of the largest in the world, producing 1,000,000 gallons annually. Dublin at the time was the centre of world whiskey production. It was the second most popular spirit in the world after rum and internationally Jameson had by 1805 become the world's number one whiskey. In 1966 John Jameson joined forces with Cork Distillers and John Powers to form the Irish Distillers Group. The New Midleton Distillery built by Irish Distillers produces most of the Irish whiskey sold in Ireland. The new facility adjoins the old one, now a tourist attraction. Originally one of the six main Dublin Whiskeys, Jameson is now distilled in Cork, although vatting still takes place in Dublin. With annual sales of over 31 million bottles, Jameson is by far the best selling Irish whiskey in the world. Today, Jameson is the world's third largest single-distillery whiskey. The Jameson brand was acquired by French drinks conglomerate Pernod Ricard in 1988 when it bought Irish Distillers.
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Mustangtony...can you tell by looking closely whether these are photo's or finely worked illustrations (watercolour)?...can't quite tell from the photo, which is to be expected (no critisism implied toward your photo)
Steve
Since these are all from actual mass-produced magazines, I do not know and can not tell the originality of the artwork. The only ads that actually credited the photographer were the Rheingold Lager ads.
Again, I apologize for the quality of the photos as the ads are all on glossy paper and I have to slant the camera somewhat to relieve back-flash. I am not a professional ephemerist nor professional photographer, only a collector of a vast assortment of items who enjoys sharing them with others.
Mustangtony, your photography is just FINE, and THANK YOU for all the trouble you go to in your posts! If it wasn't for this website and members like you, ephemera and items like this would be pretty much unavailable to us to peruse and enjoy at our leisure. Were else could we see items like you are posting???
I am guesing BUT I think or feel that the images in some of these adverts are fine illustrations by the hand of illustrators not photographers, especially at this date. Later on; photographs were manipulated by illustrators so they more closely resembled the work produced earlier "by hand". Then photographs fully took over until eclipsed by the current fully digital age, when it is now difficult to judge just what is what! Real or Not?......anyway...sorry for my ramble...everyone else is probably just enjoying your adverts for themselves and what they were selling....here's me "mithering" over the actual image itself!!!!!! Thats an Artist for you!!!!!!!!!! ;)
Looking at all of them closely, I would say that most if not all of them seem to be artists rendering of the subjects, both background and the actual products. Again, the only ads which actually credited the "photographer" (and apparel supplier) were ALL of the Rheingold ads but putting them side-by-side I can not differentiate between the two. Being that they are from the 1950's, I would assume that none of them are computer generated nor enhanced like todays are.
That night 2 days ago when I commented (above)...I actually went and made myself an Irish Coffee....the first one in years, and really enjoyed it!.. The POWER of advertising..LOL..... Still a potent advert even after all these years. Bless.