Up for bid on eBay is a vintage, original 1941 Art Deco salesman sample pin-up calendar from the Brown and Bigelow calendar company of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
"A phenomenal, vibrant, poster-sized calendar featuring a rarely seen image of a stunning brunette beauty glamour girl and her two precious Borzoi dogs titled 'Good Evening' by Rolf Armstrong," says the seller. "This item comes from the remarkable collection of Mike Wooldridge, a lifetime collector and co-author of 'Pin Up Dreams,' a monograph on Rolf Armstrong that was researched and enthusiastically compiled by Mike over many years. Mike was without question the greatest scholar of Armstrong, the American illustrator and Calendar Pin-up artist."
This seller is planning to list Mike's entire estate over the coming months and no doubt many of those items will end up being featured on this blog.
The seller continues, "Mike was a familiar presence to much of the eBay community, known by his user name--pinupper--both as a savvy collector and upstanding seller. His sudden death in January of 2010 was a tremendous loss to his family, friends, and the collecting community at large."
