Often when a vendor sells Technicolor lithographs online they just make up a copyright date. Older is obviously considered better, so there’s a strong incentive to lie. For instance the lithograph above, entitled “Fun Loving,” was listed as being from 1956. Since there’s no easy way for potential buyers to confirm the age of these things, that’s a nice, safe date. Old enough to be collectible, but not so old someone can immediately see that the model can’t possibly be from that era. But sometimes these obscure models are actually identifiable, and in this case the woman pictured is without doubt Australian model Deanna Soutar, who we just saw a few months ago inside a 1971 Police Gazette. If this litho were really from 1956, Soutar would be six years old in the photo, which she clearly is not. She began modeling around 1970 when she was twenty, so we can safely say this particular litho dates from between ’70 and ’72. If you visit our website a lot you know how hard it is to identify litho models, so we have to call today a victory.
