Since it's a photo and not an illustration, I feel little for the pie itself here.  But: National Red Cherry Institute!  That's the beautiful part for Inflammammal, the logo, the cherries & the idea itself.

A possibly overpacked but definitely exciting scene from a German encyclopedia.

Need a visual break from all that fauna?  I've got just the primeval forest for it:

Davis brand gelatin was an early competitor of Knox and Jell-O.  Here's the so-so cover of a 1918 recipe booklet followed by a nice illustration from inside, which I find very nice indeed.

If only it was the label I had, and not just the advertisement.

It is very, very rare that I care about depictions of meat but this 1945 illustration from the Meat Council is so lovingly done I must include it.

Usually I only tolerate meat pics in adorable semi-cartoon form among other foods, such as in this Ovaltine ad from 1938:

Superfun encyclopedia plate of a crested porcupine, with her porcupets, which is the honest to Christ name for baby porcupines.

Brand new to my collection, published in 1916, this Sunkist cookbook has no color illustrations other than the outside & inside covers, but oh, what covers!  That peeled orange/glass of lemonade with lemon slices is really choice.

Another very recent night-time postcard acquisition, a mystery if I ever bought one.  It's quite old, probably from the early '40s, and there is no explanation provided save saying this scene takes place in Honolulu HI.  What's being lit?  Are those spectators, or indigenous folk, or . . . ?  It baffles me, and haunts me just a bit in a peculiar way.

Beauty and the phrase "Miracle-Tufts"!

Seems like a good time for some more Le Soleil Malines elegance.  Celery and salsify; the background of the salsify's splendid.

Originals of this 1938 ad seem to go for at least $50, and that is not within my permitted ephemera spending limits.  And it breaks my goddamn heart.

I console my self with long, long looks at this, the inside cover of a Sunkist recipe book, probably my favorite vintage illustration of all, and safely my own.  It's already been posted on this blog but merits repeating.

My latest dusk/nighttime vintage postcard acquisition.  I think it's pretty special.  "The Witch Tree"!  Undated.

Also new today is this one, less striking but still worthy.  The background behind the dam's great.  Mid-'40s:

I really prefer my ads to be unpopulated by humans, but this one's nice enough to appeal to me anyway - those peaches!

Yet again, I apologize for the size of my scanner in relation to Life magazine pages - but we can still enjoy this, I hope.

I don't know what it means to stand the gaff, but I do know that International truck ads had very handsome illustrations.

Among my favorite stamps.

Another example of candy being promoted as beneficial to health, providing needed "food energy" in the form of dextrose.  

Here's a beautiful English plate showing an iguana doing what they do so well, being adorable.

Love the font and design on both.

For Inflammammal, this illustration is indeed perfection.  If only my scanner could scan an entire Life page.  From 1945.

From a 1945 Ford ad, an attractive ad touting their their developments in glass.

If I could ask my collecting tastes one thing it might be "Why do you love old illustrations of margarine so much, Inflammammal?  Oranges and candy are one thing but the margarine?"

The future as envisioned in the '50s, now, that just about everyone agrees is wonderful.

Whatever party patties may be be, that bear's really selling 'em.  Enthused!  Minty!

Les champignons look nice against the black.

What a beauty.

Here's a late-Victorian trade card.  It's probably the oldest thing in my collection, and the bottom left corner came off as I removed it from the scanner.  Goody-great!  Damn it.  Cute kitty though hmm?

This blog was supposed to be mostly food illustrations, now it's stamps here and endpapers there.  Let's recover with some delightful pea soup.

By far my favorite stamp depicting prehistoric life.  I'm not even posting the runners-up, that's what a runaway victory this placid Ichthyostega scores with me.

An especially, even outrageously nice stamp, I think.

A couple other favorites.  I adore the way everything's depicted a bit strangely in the last one.  Are those weeping willows?  I choose to believe so.

On rare occasions, a label may possess great charm without great design.

All sweet, agreed.

Some more illustrations from the fantastically illustrated The Cat Whose Whiskers Slipped.

While I'm at it, here are two WPA posters that pretty much blow my mind and fit this blog's leanings best (again, I don't own these):

I don't own this, nor any WPA posters at all, to my ongoing heartache.  Holy wow I love it (I also love sharks).