Look what we have here: Sinclair Oil ads from 1931 and 1932! These off-beat dinosaur illustrations ran in the Saturday Evening Post. You will see we included the ad copy, too, for completion. We confess that we don’t understand the pictures, really. Are they sculptures? Dioramas? Paintings? Pictures of sculptural dioramas developed and then painted over? If you have a clue, educate us with a comment, please!
Mars Will Send No More 
Wow these are very cool!
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Amazing they lasted so long! Maybe we should try and find out what happened to the original sculptures.
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I have very fond memories of Sinclair Dinoland at the 1964-65 NY World’s Fair. I still have my souvenir dinosaurs. (And Sinclair gas stations had a green sauropod as part of their logo back in the day)
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We have one in our neighborhood that still has that sauropod logo! Dragging his tail like it’s still the 1950s… 🙂 Frankly we got on a Sinclair memorabilia kick just because we tried to find our old Sinclair toy on eBay. Never found it, but some other goodies instead!
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Mars, I can tell you have an interest in prehistory. A little anecdote..my brother was picking up rocks for a farmer in Iowa, where we grew up. Iowa, as you might know, was completely underwater hundreds of millions of years ago. Anyway, he found a rock with an imprint of a tentacle on it, like something you’d see on an octopus. Now he’s got it in his garage. I’ve been bitching at him for years to take it to a professor at the local college, but he never gets around to it.
Now I live in South Dakota, mostly desolate, a good place to find dinosaur bones, but Iowa, that was a primevil swamp. Weird creatures swam there.
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Great story! Send us a photo 🙂 We love fossils.
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