Saturday, January 16, 2021

A Tale Of Two Berts

A recently concluded REA auction had a pretty sizeable offering of 1969 Mod Generation Stickers original art. You can click on the appropriate labl to see but I've shown a half dozen or so of these previously.  A couple of the originals have already been shown here so I'll skip those and there's one little headscratcher as well.

There's nine to show.  Here's Bert:


All well and good but this is also Bert:


It looks like a second Bert label was created and incorrectly applied as that particular elephant-flared individual is known as Louis in the set.  Charlie is pretty far out man:


Is Herb looking for some herb?


Judy, Judy, Judy....what kind of instrument is she holding?!



Personally, I've always liked mini-skirts:



Why does Paul have a cane?


Meanwhile Pete is really groovin':


Maybe Phil's playing along?


The set was definitely a period piece and at this point I think all the actual flower children are in their 70's (or worse). A lot of nostalgic fads have come and gone only to be reignited a generation later but it seems to me the hippie fashions did not really re-appear in the 90's.  Maybe Pete and Phil are playing an elegy.....



1 comment:

  1. I have some info on the Topps Mod Generation on my website bubblegumcards.org. In this group you have here Bert is actually number 14 and number 26 is Louis in the final test set release. So someone must've just put Bert's name on Louis's image.

    According to David Saunders, Norm Saunders son, all 55 cards in this series were designed by an unidentified Topps freelance artist, presumably Trina Robbins. She told me she did the roughs and was really mad that Norm changed up some of her designs. David says least 36 of the images were painted by Norman Saunders. This was a test issue which proved unsuccessful so it was not widely released.

    There were 55 stickers in this series. 1 of them are still unidentified mysteries. 27 were designed and painted by Norman Saunders.

    The finished works of art were not considered appealing enough for general release. The test issue proved unpopular and they were not widely distributed.

    You can read more about this elusive set at David Saunders website.

    http://www.normansaunders.com/ModGen%2C01.html

    List:

    01 Alice
    02 Bill
    03 Susan
    04 Ray
    05 Phil
    06 Ann
    07 Diane
    08 Dave
    09 Phyllis
    10
    11 Barbara
    12 Teddy
    13 John
    14 Bert
    15 Paul
    16 Helen
    17 Pete
    18 Fred
    19 Jimmy
    20 Irv
    21 George
    22 Millie
    23 Jerry
    24 Rose
    25 Roy
    26 Louis
    27 Natalie
    28 Ellen
    29 Don
    30 Jackie
    31 Herb
    32 Dotty
    33 Shelly
    34 Michael
    35 Donna
    36 Mary
    37 Charlie
    38 Betty
    39 Minda
    40 Gloria
    41 Marie
    42 Nancy
    43 Connie
    44 Tony
    45 Richard
    46 Judy
    47 Joe
    48 Lois
    49 Frances
    50 Larry
    51 Barry
    52 Joan
    53 Fay
    54 Esther
    55 Chris

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