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Category: Trade Cards and Advertising

A Singer For The Girls

Trade card. Circa 1910 – 1914.  Publisher unknown, Form 1653.   Size:  5 and 1/4 x 3 and 1/2″ Price:  $15.00 True, this trade card is not in the best of shape, with some major creasing at the top right, and…Read More…

The Promise Of Spring

Trade card, circa 1898 – 1908.   Size:  About 3 and 3/8 x 5″  Condition:  Poor with folds, tape and some staining. Price:  $4.00 Since we were in Detroit for the last two posts, this one had to be next for…Read More…

Brunsing, Tolle & Postel Oak Run Whiskey

Liquor dealer advertisement for Oak Run Whiskey, San Francisco, CA, street scene, 1906, after the earthquake. Price:  $8.00          Size:  5 x 3 and 3/4″ Here’s an old trade card, of sorts, showing a photo of a street scene described as:…Read More…

Launtz Millinery, Salinas, CA

Antique trade card, circa 1890 – 1891.     Size:  About 2 and 5/8 x 4 and 1/2″ Price:  $15.00 This trade card is the first in a new category that we’re labeling “Breakthroughs”  (for lack of a better term.) I’ve asked…Read More…

Lewando’s French Dye House

Trade card. Circa 1877 – 1881.    Size:  About 5 and 1/4 x 2 and 3/4″ Price:  $25.00 “French Process of Dry Cleaning, Lewando’s French Dye House, 65 Temple Place, Boston.” Here’s a beauty: a trade card showing a sailboat prominent…Read More…

The Cozy Corner Bar, Havana Cuba

The address and telephone number printed above were the keys to finding the location of The Cozy Corner Bar, Cafe Cantina. The proprietors are listed as Fred. M. Bernoth and Ramon Rodriguez, and they were offering a “select stock of…Read More…

The Village Belle

Trade card, circa 1887. Lithograph by G.H. Buek & Co., New York. Based on an original watercolor by Edward Percy Moran. Price:  $20.00      Size:  About 3 and 1/4 x 5 and 1/2″ How nice that the copyright date is given…Read More…

A. C. Skinner, Lowell, Mass.

Business and advertising card. Circa 1872 – 1891 Price:  $12.00           Size:  3 and 7/8″ x 2 and 1/8″ This is either a trade card or calling card or maybe a combination of both. A. C. Skinner ran a “fancy goods”…Read More…

Landseer Cards By Shober & Carqueville

Trade cards, set of five. Circa 1885 – 1894. Shober & Carqueville Lithograph Co., Chicago Illinois. Price for the set:  $15.00     Size:  About 2 and 3/4 x 4 and 1/4″ A set of five advertising cards put out by the…Read More…

J. E. Allen & Sons Trade Card

“Compliments of J. E. Allen & Sons. No. 16 N. Third St., Harrisburg, PA.” Here’s a beautiful trade card for the winter season:  a country scene in brown and white on gray; showing a man driving a two-horse drawn sled…Read More…