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Category: Butterflies

Old Advertising Card McNeil’s Pain Exterminator

Trade Card for Dr. T. S. McNeil’s Pain Exterminator. Circa 1870s – 1880s. Price:  $10.00         Size:  4 and 1/4 x 2 and 1/2″ The most detailed information on T. S. McNeil, found in some quick searches, comes from a Lycoming…Read More…

Les Bonnes Nouvelles de la Marelle

Vintage envelope, made in France. Date unknown. Publisher:  La Marelle. Price:  $2.00        Size:  5 and 1/2 x 3 and 1/2″ This one reminds me more of an underwater scene from a fantasy world:  mushrooms growing from the sandy ocean floor,…Read More…

Mellier’s High Class Perfumes

Trade card, Oberdeener’s Pharmacy and Mellier’s Perfumes. Circa 1889 – 1901. Price:  $15.00          Size:  4 and 1/2 x 3″ A lovely trade card in blue, pink and yellow showing a ladies shoe, a fan, a flower, a butterfly and a…Read More…

Young Man With Hat

Cabinet Card. Circa 1880s. Photographer unknown. Price:  $5.00 No identifying info on this one for either the subject or the photographer, but it’s a nice photo with a nice rural backdrop. The young man wears a sack suit and bow…Read More…

Butterfly Woman

Victorian-Era card    Price:  $10.00          Size:  About 4 and 1/2 x 2 and 7/8″  An unusual, really cool, antique print of a woman’s head on a butterfly’s body. She wears a green bow around her neck. What would her companions in…Read More…