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…
Category: Trade Cards and Advertising
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 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…