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Another Christmas — and what pulse won’t quicken as the day draws near? To give this day a very special meaning, there is no gift like the gift of time — a watch, a symbol of the time that’s gone before and the time together that’s to come, echoing “Merry Christmas” through the year. For a gift to cherish — none is more perfect than a watch . . .
The illustrator of this Christmas morning scene from 1948 is Austin Briggs (1909-1973), among the most successful commercial illustrators of the 20th century and one of the founders of the Famous Artists School. In the 1930s and 40s he drew the Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim comic strips.