Trade card, circa 1880s – 1890s. Price: $3.00 Size: About 3 and 1/4 x 4 and 5/16″ Young love in an old trade card Here’s a trade card, a little worse for wear, but still….a beauty: depicting a lovers’ scene…Read More…
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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…
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…
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…
Bortree Duplex Corset Trade Card
Bortree Manufacturing Company, Duplex Corset Trade Card. Circa 1884. Card printed by The Krebs Lithographing Company of Cincinnati. A wonderful, colorful, slightly comical, (depending upon how this strikes you) trade card for Duplex corsets and the Bortree Manufacturing Company. This…Read More…