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Category: Trade Cards and Advertising

His First Suspenders

Hires Root Beer Trade Card, circa 1895 – 1900. Price:  $10.00            Size:  3 x 5″ This trade card is not in the best condition, and certainly not rare, so might be of most value to the H. G. Krueger Family…Read More…

Celluloid Collars And Cuffs Frog and Gnome

Trade Card for Celluloid Collars and Cuffs. Circa 1878 – 1880s. Price:  $7.00          Size:  About 4 x 2 and 1/2″ Frog and gnome-like (for lack of a better description, I know, where’s the beard? Maybe a young gnome 😉 )…Read More…

The Latest Fashion

Trade Card, circa 1872 – 1883 from P. A. Kearney, San Francisco. Price:  $15.00         Size:   About 3 and 1/4 x 4 and 3/4″ A trade card advertising Dr. Jayne’s Tonic Vermifuge and Dr. Jayne’s Carminative, as offered by druggist, P….Read More…

Queen Anne Soap, Kitties And Basket

Trade Card. Detroit Soap Company. Circa 1871 – 1890s. Price:  $7.00       Size:  4 and 9/16 x 2 and 13/16″ “Use Detroit Soap Co.’s Queen Anne Soap. The Best Family Soap in the World.” This is the third trade card that…Read More…

Queen Anne Soap, Kitty With Yarn

Trade card. Detroit Soap Co. Circa 1881 – 1890s. Price:  $6.00        Size:  4 and 7/16 x 3″ We’ve got a short kitten theme going here…the second of three. Nothing on the back of this trade card. But see a previous…Read More…

Kitty Photographer For Nudavene Flakes

Nudavene Flakes Trade Card. Circa 1887 – 1890. Price:  $12.00        Size:  3 x 4 and 7/16″ From a Throwback Thursday entry from Rockford Buzz: “The A. M. Johnston Oat Meal Company, said to have been the first oatmeal mill west…Read More…

Gananoque Motel And Cabins

Trade Card, Gananoque Motel and Cabins, 1945 – 1958. Price:  $10.00        Size:  About 3 and 1/4 x 2 and 5/8″ Are there many trade cards for this 1950s era motel still floating around today? Maybe a family member has a…Read More…

Joseph Chartrand Trade Card

Trade card for Joseph Chartrand, Montréal, Canada. Circa 1885 – 1886. Price:  $15.00             Size:  2 and 1/2 x 3 and 7/8″ Not in good shape but rare…  There may be other Jos. Chartrand cards that survived (note artist’s initials at…Read More…

Giesecke Boot & Shoe Manufacturing Co.

Trade card for the Giesecke Boot & Shoe Manufacturing Co. Circa 1885 – 1901. Availability Status:  SOLD Grand!  And it is, this lithograph from an unknown company showing two children riding a duck (or goose?) The girl, sitting “side-saddle” holds…Read More…

Huyler’s Bonbons And Chocolates

Trade card for Huyler’s Cocoa and Chocolate. Circa 1903. Availability status:  SOLD          Size:  4 and 1/2 x 2 and 7/8″ For the Huyler’s or the Goldberg, Bowen & Co. collector:  At the time of this post, this appears to…Read More…