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Willard Mullin Original Full Color Painting
Gouache on artist’s board is one of the finest Mullin’s known. Full color presentation piece to his funeral director friend, Walter Cooke. The Brooklyn Bum is being measured for his coffin by the lanky Frankenstein-looking genet. The Bum is exclaiming, “Nothin’ Fancy…Somethin’ in Pine Or Maybe Yez Could Jus’ Leave Me Have a Old Packing Case…Line It Wit Gunny Sack… An’ Th’ Fittin’s Cn’ Be Brass.” “Walter Cooke is the name stenciled on the door with “Leave Us Lay You Out” below. Signed at bottom right by Willard Mullin the greatest of all American sports cartoonists. "Color" Mullin works of art are few and far between and this is about as nice as you can get. Stunning illustration (EX-MT) is 13x13” itself, and in its original frame.
Past Sports Card, Memorabilia, Non-Sports Card and Collecitble Auction Items
Other past auction items that may be of interest to you.
1963 Los Angeles Dodgers World Series Ring
1940’s Pete Reiser Game Used Glove
Sandy Koufax High School Yearbook
The Bill Bevens 1947 World Series Last Ball Hit
1938 Brooklyn Dodgers Signed Baseball with Babe Ruth
1955 Brooklyn Dodgers Schaefer Beer Advertising Sign (14x20.5”)
Gil Hodges 1,000th RBI Baseball
