{"id":21589,"date":"2018-02-27T19:59:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T03:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=21589"},"modified":"2019-12-17T15:45:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T23:45:23","slug":"21589","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/02\/27\/21589\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this bust of Mad Magazine\u2019s Alfred E. Neuman is something I brought home from Alaska after Dad died. He had it on his desk for years, and now I have it near mine.<\/p>\n<p>I got curious (after watching a little Antiques Roadshow) and did some Googling to see what I could find out about it.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out these busts were modeled by the original designer of Alfred E. Neuman, artist Frank Kelly Freas (also well known for his sci fi artwork). They were sold through the magazine starting with issue 53 (March 1960), and were available in two sizes, either 3.75\u201d tall for $1, or 5.5\u201d tall for $2. This is the larger size.<br \/>\nApparently the larger size is more rare, and I\u2019ve found auction prices ranging from $125 to $400 (not that I\u2019m planning on selling mine &#8211; not only is it a nice memory of Dad, but now I know that it\u2019s been in the family for around 57 years\u2026that makes it an heirloom, right?). Just neat to know a little bit more about this silly (or creepy, according to Prairie) bit of kitsch.<\/p>\n<p>#madmagazine #alfredeneuman #bust #statue #antique #whatmeworry #frankkellyfreas #kellyfreas<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/be11dcf9ac5d4da9bca16b457cf1cddd.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this bust of Mad Magazine\u2019s Alfred E. Neuman is something I brought home from Alaska after Dad died. He had it on his desk for years, and now I have it near mine. I got curious (after watching a little Antiques Roadshow) and did some Googling to see what I could find out about &#8230; <a title=\"\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/02\/27\/21589\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2033,2049],"tags":[3162,3163,2771,2822],"class_list":["post-21589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beyond-the-blog","category-photos","tag-alfred-e-neuman","tag-frank-kelly-freas","tag-from-instagram","tag-mad-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}