Calling card. Circa 1880s – 1900. Price: $12.00 The holiday cards are scarce right now at my house, for website posting that is. Haven’t gone on any buying binges lately….then again it’s nice to put up ones that have only…Read More…
Category: Shells
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…
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…
W. L. S. A. Choice Groceries
Trade card for the W. L. S. A. grocery, Lynn, Massachusetts. Publisher unknown. No. 2500. Circa 1880s – 1890s. Price: $15.00 A dream of spring? Here’s an unusual trade card for a couple of reasons: the design – a spring…Read More…
Sincere Birthday Wishes
Divided back, embossed, unused with writing postcard. Printed in Germany. Publisher: Samson Brothers. Series 7073. Year dated by sender: 1914. Price: $7.00 Beautiful German-printed postcard showing “Sincere Birthday Wishes” with conch shell containing red roses and forget-me-nots, and they appear…Read More…
Boats on Sea Shell Souvenir
Divided back, used, embossed postcard. Postmarked June 27, 1911, Kewaunee, Wisconsin. Posctard front shows copyright P. Sander, N.Y. #237. Price: $12.00 Beautiful and unusual embossed postcard showing drawing of a “souvenir” sea shell displaying a sailboat in the foreground and…Read More…