Friday’s ad is for Ballantine, from 1948. In this ad, part of a series progressing from one, to two, to three rings, this one shows a man carefully tending his garden consisting of a ring of flowers, which becomes two rings and then, naturally, a third. Yet he looks surprised that the flower rings keep multiplying. Maybe he’s a better gardener than he realizes, or perhaps he’s had too much to drink.
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