Description
Full color 9 1/2″ x 13 1/2″ ad for their Corn Flakes. There is a picture of a brawny man who we are led to believe is a blacksmith sitting on a tree stump in his barn which he is sharing with an anvil. A box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes stands on the anvil and he is holding a bowl filled with the cereal in one hand while he adds milk from a bottle held in the other hand. The walls and floor are littered with horseshoes and other pieces of metal and the text paraphrases a popular poem. It says “Under the spreading Chestnut tree, the village smithy stands, the smith a might man is he, he practically grew up on Kellogg’s Corn Flakes“. A little note in the ad urges you to see you library for the original poem and to see your grocer for the original Corn Flakes.
Source: May 17, 1963 Life magazine.
