WWII-Era Male Bachelor Stag Party Gag Gift c1940s Open After Marriage Ceremony for Sale

WWII-Era Male Bachelor Stag Party Gag Gift c1940s Open After Marriage Ceremony For Sale

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WWII-Era Male Bachelor Stag Party Gag Gift c1940s Open After Marriage Ceremony:
$65.00

Combined shipping offered on multiple purchases. Offered is a very clever WWII-era "gag" gift entitled "NOTICE - This Book Contains Valuable Information For The BRIDE and GROOM - important! - NOT TO BE OPENED UNTIL AFTER THE CEREMONY" probably given to the groom at his stag party before the wedding. No date specified, although circa mid-to-late 1940s. The gag gift is a hollowed out book (entitled "We Can Win This War" written by W. F. Kernan and published by Little, Brown and Company in 1943 and is the actual binding). When the front cover is opened, pasted to the rear paste-down endpaper which can be seen by looking down through the hollowed pages, is the mid-portion of the female anatomy - her private area is covered and chained with a Yale lock made out of paper in silver, black and red (the text reads: "NOT TO BE OPENED UNTIL AFTER THE Ceremony"). Condition: light wear to covers; the top edge of the Yale lock shows a short closed tear (possibly torn deliberately, post-nuptial). A rare piece of World War Two ephemera.