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Federal Pure Food Company Of Chicago

Federal Pure Food Company Holiday Card. Circa 1919 – 1920s. Availability Status:  SOLD             Size:  6 and 1/4 x 4 and 7/8″ ‘Tis the season….for shopping! Here’s a beautiful Christmas/New Year’s card, probably from the 1920s, showing a nostalgic 19th-century…Read More…

Elephant’s Head and Gate of Crawford Notch

Trade Card for H. Thompson’s Grand Soap, Buffalo, NY. Circa 1879 – 1886. Lithographer:  Clay & Richmond, Buffalo, NY. Price:  $12.00           Size:  About 3 and 3/8 x 5 and 3/8″ Another H. Thompson’s Grand Soap trade card, this one showing…Read More…

H. Thompson’s Grand Soap

Trade Card for H. Thompson’s Grand Soap, Buffalo, NY. Lithographer:  Gies & Co., Buffalo, NY. Circa 1874 – 1890s. Price:  $15.00           Size:  3 and 1/16 x 4 and 11/16″ “Ask your grocer for H. Thompson’s Grand Soap, Manufactured only by…Read More…

A Pleasant Reflection

Trade card, Soapine. Kendall Mfg. Co. Donaldson Bros. Lithographers, circa 1870s – 1890s. Price:  $7.00          Size:  2 and 15/16 x 4 and 1/4″ Kendall Manufacturing Co.’s Soapine, had a very long run, from 1827 to the late 1950s;  here is yet…Read More…

After The Doctor

Trade card for G. W. Hull & Bro., Wauseon, Ohio. Circa 1870s – 1890s. Price:  $15.00             Size:  About 4 and 1/2 x 3″ Happy Halloween! I know this is not your standard Halloween offering, but it’s the closest we have…Read More…

Globe Soap Trade Card

Trade card. Globe Soap Company. Circa 1880s – 1890s. Gies & Co., Buffalo, NY. Price:  $12.00          Size:  3 and 3/16 x 4 and 13/16″ Captain Jinks, etc. This seems like a good trade card for autumn, of a boy with…Read More…

D. Joseph Adams Trade Card, Manhattan, NY

Trade card, Yorkville, Manhattan, New York. Circa 1884 – 1895. Price:  $10.00            Size:  3 and 1/4 x 5 and 13/16″ Here’s a beauty, there’s something about seashells….Washed up on the shore, with some seashore-type plants surrounding it, is a large…Read More…

N. S. Davis Trade Card, Somerset, Mass.

Trade card, Somerset, Mass. Circa 1867 – 1876. Price:  $10.00           Size:  About 2 x 3 and 1/4″ “N. S. Davis, Dealer in Fruit, Confectionery, Ice Cream Soda, Cigars &c. &c. Somerset – Mass.” Another grocery-type trade card, this one with…Read More…

I. K. Messer, Grocer, Haverhill, Mass.

Trade card. Haverhill, Massachusetts. Circa 1876 – 1880. Price:  $10.00                Size:  about 4 and 5/8 x 3″ “He removed his tricorn with a flourish and made her a low sweeping bow….” Here’s a lovely trade card in pink tones, for …Read More…

Samuel Clarke 12 & 14 S. Queen St., Lancaster, PA

Trade card, Lancaster, PA. Circa 1888 – 1890. Price:  $10.00        Size:  about 4 and 1/8 x 2 and 1/4″ “Call on Samuel Clarke, for Teas Coffees and Groceries, 12 & 14 South Queen Street. Don’t read the other side.” Ahhh,…Read More…