Trade card, C. B. Eaton & Co. Stationers, Worcester, Mass. Circa 1881 – 1892. Price: $10.00 Size: About 3 and 7/16 x 1 and 13/16″ I used to work at a call center and we took calls from all over,…Read More…
Category: Trade Cards and Advertising
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…
George A. Drew’s Jewelry Store Trade Card
Trade card, 1882 – 1883, Lewiston, Maine. Price: $12.00 Size: 2 and 1/2 x 4 and 1/2″ I was picturing someone searching the web for a photo or illustration of this jeweler’s store, thinking they’d found it, all excited, only…Read More…
Musical Variations
Trade card, circa 1880s – 1890s. Lithographer: Vallet, Minot & Co., Paris. Price: $5.00 Size: About 2 and 9/16 x 4″ This cute trade card, of a Scottish Highlander playing the fiddle, was probably one of a series representing different…Read More…
Livingston’s Perfection
Trade card for Rice’s Seeds. Circa 1880 – 1881. Price: $12.00 Size: 4 and 1/2 x 2 and 5/8″ “Livingston’s Perfection (New). Warranted to produce ripe fruit in 100 days from the sowing of the seed.” “Rice’s Seeds have spoken…Read More…
A. H. Taylor, Pianos And Organs
Trade Card. Salem, Massachusetts. 1880 – 1881. Price: $12.00 Size: 2 and 1/2 x 4 and 1/2″ “A. H. Taylor, Pianos And Organs, 293 Essex St., Salem, Mass.” This could be the only surviving trade card for this company in…Read More…
Lion Coffee Parallelogram
Trade card, Lion Coffee. Circa 1882 – 1890s Price: $5.00 I like the effect of these two images together, as if you’re looking at a roof from above, and what a roof it would be! (although the front of the…Read More…
Worcester & Greenfield, Newsdealers And Stationers
Trade card, circa 1881 – 1899. Price: $15.00 Size: About 2 and 1/8 x 3 and 1/8″ A beautifully stylish little girl, with a wreath of flowers on one arm and just picked roses overflowing from her makeshift cloth “basket,”…Read More…
Sweet Home Soap
Trade card, circa 1880s – 1890s. Price: $3.00 Size: About 3 and 1/4 x 4 and 5/16″ Young love in an old trade card Here’s a trade card, a little worse for wear, but still….a beauty: depicting a lovers’ scene…Read More…
Choose The Best Shade
Trade Card. J & P Coats. Circa1880s – 1890s. Price: $15.00 Size: About 4 and 1/8 x 2 and 5/8″ Such a pretty card and with a clever caption! The stripes going through the waves remind me of the zigzag…Read More…