Johnson Smith Catalog Item #23

2018 NOTE: More masks.

If these horrifying masks are "lifelike" in the world you come from, I don't want to visit!

From the 1950 catalog.

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     First Posted: June, 2012
     Reposted By: Paul - Thu Mar 15, 2018
     Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues | Disguises, Impersonations, Mimics and Forgeries | Johnson Smith Catalog | 1950s

Comments

I'd like the "Comic Negro" on my mantel just for a laugh.

Is that "Booji Boy" in the upper left?

Posted by KDP on 06/05/12 at 10:47 AM

Wow, they range from ugly to offensive to ugly and offensive!!

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 06/06/12 at 12:42 AM

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