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Just in time for Christmas, Jim Flora Art is offering for sale limited-edition silk screen prints of the renowned Jim Flora 1955 ‘Mambo For Cats’ RCA Victor album cover on eBay. [LINK]

From the press release:
Produced in an edition of 200 by Minneapolis print and design studio Aesthetic Apparatus, the prints have been created using Flora archivist Barbara Economon’s digital restoration of a vintage printer’s proof. They measure 20″ x 20″ (much larger than the album version), and use three acrylic screen printing inks meticulously matched to Flora’s original colors on archival 100-pound off-white cover stock.

The first 100 numbered copies will be sold for $150 each, unframed. Prices for copies 101 to 200 will be increased as stock is depleted.

My feeling is that you know you’re getting your money’s worth if Aesthetic Apparatus is involved.

If you take a look at what Jim Flora Art has to offer on its Jim Flora Art LLC eBay store, you’ll find some great items that your favorite Flora-ite would love to have in his collection (*a hem!*) such as The Day the Cow Sneezed T-shirt (mentioned previously), among other things.

On another Flora note, Diego Sanz of the excellent Papel Continuo has started up a Jim Flora Flickr group. When I first found out about this group, I immediately thought to myself, “why didn’t I think of that?” But I’m glad to see that Diego started it up anyway (he also deemed me worthy of administrator status, nice guy that he is). One interesting entry is this illustration from Feb. 1960 LIFE magazine in Spanish. Come on by and check out some more fun artwork by the late great James Flora.