Vintage/Old/Antique 1920s Scary/Weird/Creepy/Strange Michelin Man Costumes Photo

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Vintage/Old/Antique 1920s Scary/Weird/Creepy/Strange Michelin Man Costumes Photo:
$19.95

Item Details:

You will receive an 11\"x14\" black and white photo reprint
This photo will be shipped first class USPS, and a tracking number provided
This is what I believe to be a circa early 1920\'s photo of 2 men dressed as the Michelin tire company mascot Bibendum, more commonly known as the Michelin Man
Bibendum, commonly referred to as the Michelin Man, is the symbol of the Michelin tire company
Introduced at the Lyon Exhibition of 1894 where the Michelin brothers had a stand,Bibendum is one of the world\'s oldest trademarks
The slogan Nunc est bibendum (Now is the time to drink) is taken from Horace\'s Odes (book I, ode xxxvii, line 1)
He is also referred to as Bib or Bibelobis
While attending the Universal and Colonial Exposition in Lyon in 1894, Edouard and André Michelin noticed a stack of tires that suggested to Edouard the figure of a man without arms
Four years later, André met French cartoonist Marius Rossillon, popularly known as O\'Galop, who showed him a rejected image he had created for a Munich brewery—a large, regal figure holding a huge glass of beer and quoting Horace\'s phrase \"Nunc est bibendum\"
André immediately suggested replacing the man with a figure made from tires
Thus O\'Galop transformed the earlier image into Michelin\'s symbol
Today, Bibendum is one of the world\'s most recognised trademarks, representing Michelin in over 150 countries
The 1898 poster showed him offering the toast Nunc est bibendum to his scrawny competitors with a glass full of road hazards, with the title and the tag C\'est à dire: À votre santé
Le pneu Michelin boit l\'obstacle (\"That is to say, to your health. The Michelin tire drinks up obstacles\")
The implication is that Michelin tires will easily take on road hazards
The company used this basic poster format for fifteen years, adding its latest products to the table in front of the figure
It is unclear when the word \"Bibendum\" came to be the name of the character himself
At the latest, it was in 1908, when Michelin commissioned Curnonsky to write a newspaper column signed \"Bibendum\"
From 1912, tires took on a black appearance because carbon was added as a preservative and strengthener to the base rubber material
Before then, they were a gray-white or light, translucent beige color
Bibendum\'s appearance also changed
Though briefly featured in several print ads, Michelin quickly changed back his appearance, citing printing and aesthetic issues for the change, and not racial concerns as commonly believed
The name of the plump tire-man has entered the language to describe someone obese or wearing comically bulky clothing. (e.g. \"How can I wrap up warm without looking like the Michelin Man?\")Bibendum\'s shape has changed over the years
O\'Galop\'s logo was based on bicycle tires, wore pince-nez glasses with lanyard, and smoked a cigar
By the 1980s, Bibendum was being shown running, and in 1998, his 100th anniversary, a slimmed-down version became the company\'s new logo
He had long since given up the cigar and pince-nez
The slimming of the logo reflected lower-profile, smaller tires of modern cars
Bib even had a similar-looking puppy as a companion when the duo were CGI animated for recent American television advertisements

Quality of Photo:

Not printed on some cheap ink jet printer that will have horrible image quality like some other sellers
All black and white photos will be printed with ink on paper that can last up to 200 years
All color photos will be printed with ink on paper that will last up to over 100 years

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