Victorian-era Food Trade Card - circa 1880s. 'Fruit High but Falling, The Alden Fruit Vinegar'. Comical looking boy reaching for fruit up a tree - concerned woman below. Printed back with full details, testimonials etc.. Overstamped J. W. Mahoney, Dealer in General Merchandise, Forset City, Iowa. Near mint. No creases, marks, rounded corners, album marks, not trimmed, etc. From a group recently found in top, fresh condition NOT in an album. Postage at cost. View More...
Victorian-era Trade Card - circa 1880s - Buck's Brilliant Stoves & Ranges The card features a wonderful image of a Victorian Lady next to a very elaborate Stove - with descriptive text. Reverse is blank - no text. Near mint. No creases, marks, rounded corners, album marks, not trimmed, etc. From a group recently found in top, fresh condition NOT in an album. Postage at cost. View More...
Victorian-era Trade Booklet, Medicinal, from carters Little Liver Pills. Undated, c1880s. Highlt attractive color litho wrappers [Liebler & Maass] - front, old man pushing childern in a wheel-barrow 32 pages - al kings of information, general interest, poeytry etc mixed with advertising from Carters. Near mint. No creases, marks, rounded corners, album marks, not trimmed, etc. From a group recently found in top, fresh condition NOT in an album. More than one copy available. Postage at cost. View More...
Miniature booklet containing various children's rhymes with color-litho & b&w illustrations. Advertising for Clark's Thread on the inside of the front wrapper and on both sides of the rear wrapper. Undated, circa 1880s. [12 pages] including wrappers. Bright, clean and unmarked, Sound, tight binding. No creasing, tears, folds or marks. This is the ORIGINAL publication NOT a modern reprint. Shipped by inexpensive Lattermail at cost. View More...
Attractive Trade mini-booklet containing advertising & testimonials for Diamond Dies and Kidney-Wort medicines. Also contains a 12pp feature story by Emily Hayes, 'Cousin John's Extravagent Wife', a story. Undated, circa 1880s. Entire booklet is 32pp, one full-page illustration on back of front wrapper. Wrappers are full-chromo-litho color illustrations. Booklet is Fine - appears virtually as it would have done oner 125 years ago. ORIGINAL not a modern reprint. Small retailers stamp at foot of front wrapper - 'P. O. Koto, Druggist and Bookseller, Forest City, Iowa'. Two copies available. Posta... View More...
Scarce Victorian-era Tobacco Trade Card - circa 1880s. Color litho. Young boy with dog inside a giant horseshoe. Picture available. Plain back. Mint - no marks, crease, rounded corners, album marks, not trimmed etc. From a group recently found in top, fresh condition NOT in an album. Postage at cost. View More...
Victorian-era Trade Cards - not dated, but 1880s - Granite Ironware [for the Kitchen] - 'The Attack', 'All the Gossip', & 'The LittleHousewife'. They Outwear All Others! Each card with color-litho images. Reverse with descriptve text. All are Fine. No marks,no rounded corners, no album marks, not trimmed, etc. From a group recently found in top, fresh condition NOT in an album. Postage at cost. View More...
Victorian-era Medicinal Trade Card - circa 1880s. 'Rescued from a bed of suffering - brings the bloom of health to the cheek and delight to the heart'. Attractive young woman wearing a large bonnet. Printed back with full details, testimonials etc.. Near mint. No creases, marks, rounded corners, album marks, not trimmed, etc. From a group recently found in top, fresh condition NOT in an album. Postage at cost. View More...
Victorian-era Medicinal Trade Card - circa 1880s. 'Everybody needs at times the invigorating help of...'. Attractive young child leaning against a wall. Printed back with full details, testimonials etc.. Near mint. No creases, marks, rounded corners, album marks, not trimmed, etc. From a group recently found in top, fresh condition NOT in an album. Postage at cost. View More...
Victorian-era Tobacco Trade Card - circa 1880s. Color litho. Reproduces a painting of a young child with roses entitled, 'Wild Rose'. Picture available. Printed back with full details, testimonials etc.. Mint - no marks, crease, rounded corners, album marks, not trimmed etc. From a group recently found in top, fresh condition NOT in an album. Postage at cost. View More...
Victorian-era Trade Card - circa 1880s - Hoyt's German Cologne. 'This card is perfumed with Hoyts German Cologne Fragrant & Lasting'. 'Young boy painting, girl watches through the fence'. Printed back with full details, testimonials etc.. Near mint. No creases, marks, rounded corners, album marks, not trimmed, etc. From a group recently found in top, fresh condition NOT in an album. Postage at cost. View More...
Small Price List from a Company in Tacoma, Washington manufacturing and selling Red Cedar Shingles. Small sheet folded once to form 4 pages. Details and Pricing on the inside pages. Illustration on the rear panel showing a number of men standing on a Cedar Stump 19 feet in diameter, near Snohomish, WA. A tiny, ephemeral piece is Fine condition - unmarked and undamages. Undated by posiibly 1880s View More...
Small, periodic Trade List of Parlophone Records from Great Britain. Vancouver, B. C. store stamp to the rear wrapper. 12pp, illustrated. Shipped via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail within North America, in card sleeve. From $3.00 to $6.50 depending on exact weight and location. Image available. Enquire for rates to Worldwide destinations! View More...
Victorian-era Soap Trade Card - dated 1887. 'Lennox Soap'. Image of a beautiful young woman in a coutry setting. On the back of the card this image 'The Village Belle' by Percy Moran - is offered in a large size on submission of 25 soap wrappers. Chromo-litho color. Printed reverse.. Near Fine - bright, clean and unmarked. One corner tip shows a faint crease - quite minor. No album marks, not trimmed, etc. From a group recently found in top, fresh condition NOT in an album. Postage at cost. View More...
Victorian-era Trade Card - circa 1880s - Plye's Pearline - a type of Soap. 'Young boy kissing a young girl - by surprise! Printed back with full details, testimonials etc.. Near mint. No creases, marks, rounded corners, album marks, not trimmed, etc. From a group recently found in top, fresh condition NOT in an album. Postage at cost. View More...
Victorian-era Trade Card - Quick Meal Gasoline Stoves - circa1880s. Image of a young boy and a girl with a doll, driving a cart pulled by a dog. On the back of the card is a description of the stove with a b&w illustration. At the foot - 'For Sale by Joice & Erickson, Dealers in Stoves & Hardware, Forest City, Iowa. Chromo-litho color front. Printed reverse.. Fine - bright, clean and unmarked. All, corners sharp, no creasing. No album marks, not trimmed, etc. From a group recently found in top, fresh condition NOT in an album. Postage at cost. View More...
Listings of RCA Victor and Bluebird Records for Sale in October of 1950. Catalogt extends to 13" by 6", 8 panels, printed both sides. Prices shown. Weight, 4g. Lettermail rates apply. View More...
Victorian-era Trade Card - promotes an agricultural tool called the 'Straw Stacker'. Undated, circa 1880s. Image of a beautiful young girl in an odd 'corn' skirt swinging a stacker. On the back of the card is full descriptive text. Bright, chromo-litho color. Printed reverse.. Near Fine - bright, clean and unmarked. One corner tip shows a very faint crease - quite minor. No album marks, not trimmed, etc. From a group recently found in top, fresh condition NOT in an album. Postage at cost. View More...
Retail Trade Catalog from a popular shop in Sitka, Alaska. Published in the year of Alaska's Statehood - 1959. 16 pqges, profusely illustrated. Wide range of gftware and souvenirs with an Alaska flavor. Prices present. Bright, clean and unmarked with an attractive front wrapper illustration of an Inuit harpoonist. Unpacked weight, 34g. Ships via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail to most places. View More...
Catalogue of Wire Fences and Gates for Garden, Lawn and Farm. 31pp, well illustrated with fine, line drawings, some full page. Full descriptive text. Pricing and tems. Very fine, clean printing. Laid-in, ' Take Notice', a small sheet, noting, 'All Prices in this Catalogue re now Subject to 'Hard Times' Discount. Special Net Prices verso, for Standard Farm Fence. Catalogue is beautiful condition - hard to imagine that it could be better! Unpacked weight, 20g. View More...
