I came across this vintage advertising trade card on eBay last week, and it's an image that's so bizarre that I need to share it here. For therapy, perhaps.
The trade card is touting some varieties of soap produced by an obscure company called Page, Derr & Co. of Creston, Iowa. The illustration, presumably by Richmond & Co. of Buffalo, New York, features a person who has some sort of fruit or vegetable in the place of his head.
To what end, I do not know.
Is it supposed to be an eggplant? A plum? Is it smoking?
Why is it smoking?
There's a lot that's disturbing about this imagine, which is partly silly but also borderline nightmare fuel. It's probably best that you don't stare at it too long.
Another question is, if it is smoking, is it smoking from a hole in its neck? I know "vegetable people" were a thing around the turn of the century, particularly Halloween related such as this: http://tinyurl.com/h5k574h
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