Almost 47 years old! This magazine clipping hung in the basement of 330 Center Street under the home of Gary Gygax. It hung in the game room in the basement, over the sand table where the LGTSA cut it's teeth, where Jeff Perren brought out his new set of Medieval miniature rules, where the Chainmail rules were tested and the Chainmail Fantasy Supplement flourished, where the Castle & Crusade Society met on the field of battle, where Dungeons & Dragons was born, where the dungeons of Greyhawk Castle hid beneath an Elastolin castle, and where Sturmgeshutz & Sorcery raged!

Gary saw this while flipping through a magazine and liked it so much he hung it in his game-room in the basement of his house. It hung there for years as Gary struggled to make a living as first an insurance man, then a cobbler, and, finally, a game designer. It hung there until the Gygax's finally moved from the house on Center Street in 1976 or so. Ernie, always associating the clipping with the good times and happy memories of that basement, pulled the picture down and took it with him for safe keeping.

Pretty remarkable the journey and perpective this little slip of glossy magazine stock has seen! A truly unique collectable (except that there were actually two such wall hangings - see Wall Hanging #2!).

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