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Description: Framed lithographic print of an advertisement for Ferry's Seeds. The image features a glass vase filled with poppies. The original painting seems to have been in oil with textured impasto. At the top of the image is the text "FERRY'S SEEDS" in black letters. At the bottom right corner of the image is the signature of the artist, "W. BLANKE." The image has a blue border. Below the border is the text "© 1923 D.M. FERRY & CO. MADE IN U.S.A." The image has a white matting. Displayed in a dark-stained wooden frame and overlaid with glass. The back of the frame is covered in a thin, brown paper. A wire stretches across the back of the frame horizontally, attached to a metal loop at either side. A sticker on the back of the frame at the top reads "SNIDEN'S LIMITED CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING ART SUPPLIES 842-4932 193 Broadway St., Tillsonburg, Ont."