Holidays
Ben Franklin's Turkey T-shirt
The Ben Franklin's Turkey T-shirt is a Honeyman Tees print-on-demand tee from the Holidays collection. The design shows a bronze and brown wild turkey with a fanned tail, a red wattle and a red, white and blue ribbon rosette, holding a handwritten letter, saying “Ben called me a more respectable bird. Still ended up on the menu.” Available on Etsy.
“Ben called me a more respectable bird. Still ended up on the menu.”
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About this design
A fanned tail, a proud rosette and a letter from Ben.
The story behind it
In a 1784 letter to his daughter Sarah, Ben Franklin complained that the bald eagle was a bird of bad moral character and called the turkey a much more respectable bird. He never actually asked to make the turkey a national symbol, and the turkey still ends up as the star of Thanksgiving dinner.
Proposed colors: Natural
Mockups show the print at true scale on a size M tee. Colors are proposed, not final.
Where to buy
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