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Category: Trade Cards and Advertising

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…

G. W. Jenks, Boots and Shoes, Shelburne Falls, Mass

Trade card, circa 1870 – 1900. Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts. Price:  $10.00        Size:  5 and 7/8 x 2 and 3/4″ Was looking thru boxes this morning for anything 4th of July related, and nothing. So, taking a break from the offerings…Read More…

E. K. Reynolds, Norwich CT Trade Card

Trade card, lithograph by Bufford, Boston, Mass. Circa 1878 – 1890. Price:  $15.00 “After the race – off City Point, Boston Harbor.” “E. K. Reynolds, French China, Grockery, Glass Ware & House Furnishing Goods.  Norwich, Conn.” Yep, that’s a typo…Read More…

Alfred J. Brown Seed Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Trade Card for the Arthur J. Brown Seed Company, circa 1905. Price:  $8.00         Size:  3 and 1/2 x 5″ Spring has already sprung and yesterday was a beautiful day with half the neighborhood out doing gardening….Read More…

1950 Victoria 10th International Salon of Photography

Print of notice of photography show, October 1950. Price:  $15.00            Size:  4 and 1/8 x 4 and 3/4″ A third in a short totem pole theme, an ad for the 10th International Salon of Photography that was probably one of…Read More…

Pommery Champagne Ad 1915

I love crows, so here’s a beauty, he’s opening a Pommery brand champagne bottle. This was cropped from the ad below that appeared in the winter 1915 edition of The Master Grocer. Source:  Goldberg Bowen & Co.’s The Master Grocer….Read More…

Compliments of Domestic S. M. Co.

Domestic Sewing Machine Company trade card, circa 1880s – 1890s. Price:  $7.00             Size:  3 and 1/8 x 4 and 7/8″ Here’s a nice restful scene to gaze upon – and one of many trade cards to be found for the…Read More…

Acme Bar And Oyster Saloon

Trade card, circa 1882 – 1883, New Orleans, Louisiana. Price:  $15.00                 Size:  2 and 1/2 x 4 and 5/8″ Acme Bar and Oyster Saloon. 9 and 11 Royal Street, Open at All Hours. J. M. Shannon, Proprietor. “All are welcome…Read More…

The Romantic Road By Guy Rawlence

Divided back, artist-signed postcard. Postmarked August 8, 1910, England. Artist:  Wilmot Lunt. City of postmark unknown. Price:  $30.00 The postcard artist The beautiful artwork for this postcard is that of the frontispiece (the page adjacent to the title page of…Read More…

Mark Twain Shadow Card

Trade card, Woolson Spice Co., Toledo, OH. Gast Lithography Co., New York & Chicago. Copyright Woolson Spice Co., 1895. Price:  $15.00     Size: 4 and 1/4 x 5 and 1/8″ This trade card of beautiful poppies, and charming scene of a…Read More…