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Category: Calling Cards and Business Cards

Silas D. King Calling Card

Calling Card. Circa 1880 – 1900. Price:  $6.00 A deep blue morning glory flower, some leaves and berries, and a bird carrying “A Token of love” adorn this calling card for Silas D. King. The fringed banner displays the following:…Read More…

Alfred J. Hines Calling Card

Calling Card. Circa 1880 – 1900. Price:  $5.00 Flowers and a feather in orange and peach tones for this calling card….. There will be multiple possibilities for who this card had belonged to……But wow, as it turns out, not as…Read More…

Happy New Year From Stafford Hannah

Calling card. Circa 1880s – 1900. Price:  $12.00 The holiday cards are scarce right now at my house, for website posting that is. Haven’t gone on any buying binges lately….then again it’s nice to put up ones that have only…Read More…

Maxwell B. McClain’s Calling Card

Calling card, circa 1870s – 1900. Price:  $5.00        Size:  3 and 3/4 x 2 and 1/4″ Amazing that the rather delicate fold-back portion, the hand offering violets (with a flower faerie choosing to be viewed) of this calling card is…Read More…

Rany Lammers Calling Card

Calling card, circa late 1880s – early 1890s Price:  $10.00            Size: about 3 and 7/16 x 1 and 7/8″ Here’s an old nautical-themed calling card for Rany Lammers, which is probably from the late 1880s to the early 1890s. It’s…Read More…

J. J. Mahoney, Trainmaster, Chicago & Alton Railroad

Business card. Circa 1900 – 1910, but see the comment below this post. Price:  $15.00               Size:  About 3 and 5/8 x 2 and 1/4″ A nice piece of history involving the Chicago & Alton Railroad:  the business card for Trainmaster,…Read More…

George Gordon Bemis

Set of three:  Two photos size:  About 2 and 1/2 x 3 and 1/4″  and 2 x 6″ and calling card. Price:  $18.00 Three wonderful finds from Hollister, California:  Formal photography of George Gordon Bemis, as a boy in a…Read More…

Flora J. Van Fossen Calling Card

Victorian Era Calling Card, circa 1893 Price:  $7.00         Size:  About 3 and 3/8 x 1 and 5/8″ A lucky horseshoe, a spray of single-petaled pink roses and love…. This card appears to have been made for the Miss Flora J….Read More…

John Adams’ Handmade Calling Card

Handmade Victorian Era Calling Card Price:  $8.00       Size:  4 and 3/4 x 1 and 1/16″ Some people collect old handmade cards; here’s our latest offering, and it’s sure a beauty. And certainly not by the early U.S. president but isn’t…Read More…

T. A. Stephens Calling Card, January 1886

New Year’s Calling Card, January 1, 1886 Price:  $7.00         Size:  3 and 1/2 x 2″ It’s not often that you find a calling card with a date printed on it, and this one was made for the new year that…Read More…