The Wasp — 1895 — page 947: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is **primarily an advertisement**, not a political cartoon. It promotes "The Wasp's" premium offer to yearly subscribers: a free American stem-winding pocket watch, described as equivalent in quality to watches selling for $50 or more. The advertisement displays four watch designs (plain case with Arabic dial, fancy Roman dial case, ornate fancy case, and decorative inside mechanism) and includes testimonial quotes from satisfied subscribers praising the watch's reliability and value. At the bottom is a subscription coupon for readers to claim their free premium watch by sending $5 to the Wasp Publishing Company in San Francisco. The ornamental circular border design is typical of late 19th-century periodical layout.