Trade Card (76 results)

Light toning with creased corners, more heavily creased at lower left. Small chip to lower right corner. Light damp staining to verso, not impacting image or text. J. D. Larkin & Company logo stamped to recto. Very Good. Card II in a six-part series for "Crème" Oat Meal Toilet Soap, "a pure and elegant toilet soap." This trade card features a debonair, anthropomorphic chimpanzee dressed as a hunter-complete with tailored jacket, rifle, and polished leather riding boots. Each card in the series was originally tucked inside boxes of soap sold by J. D. Larkin & Co., with the full set available by mail for just a 3-cent stamp-a charming incentive. The reverse bears the name of R. E. Brink, a druggist in Caroline Centre, N.Y., reflecting the company's early reliance on local retailers. However, by 1885, Larkin had begun to cut out middlemen, selling directly to consumers, and offering ever more enticing premiums with purchases, including, at one point, an entire desk with a $10 order.…

Paper. Circa 1920s. 3.5 x 5 inch trade card for American Raw Furs in Chicago. Identification tag on the back to identify furs being shipped. Among many choices are white weasel, coyote, house cat, mountain lion and bear. 1 Good. Ink on the front and on the back.

Condition: Good. Scuffed rear side DATE PUBLISHED: EDITION: 1.

Condition: GOOD. DATE PUBLISHED: 1880 CIRCA EDITION.

Condition: GOOD. general wear, corner snipped DATE PUBLISHED: 1890 CIRCA EDITION.

Single heavy stock card. 4 3/4" X 3". Very good. Full color lithography recto shows a fancy Victorian parlor with a man on one knee having just proposed to a seated young lady, whose reply appears above. At right a putto stands tiptoe on a chair to reach the crank-style telephone, into whose mouthpiece he says, "Hello send a 'Domestic' quick." Blank verso bears oval name/address of general merchandise store cited above, inkstamped in purple. Undated, but circa 1890. What's a "Domestic"? Not a clue.…

Condition: Very Good. 12.5 cm x 7.5 cm. With a couple of short closed tears to the edges. Illustrations: Mormon Temple, Tabernacle and Assembly Hall, Salt Lake City; Completion of the Pacific Railroad, 1869; An Indian attack on an Emigrant Train. No. 42. This is one of a series of fifty cards giving a pictorial history of the United States and Territories.…

Buffalo: Gies & Co., n.y. [ca. 1880]. Single heavy stock card. 4 3/4" X 3½". Very good. Full color lithography recto shows young children leaving school, saying to other children, "Say, boys, see the Inks we have made. Prof. Smith said the DIAMOND DYES made the best Inks, and told us to make our own, and so we have. You can get any color, and one ten cent package makes a pint of the nicest ink." Fine-print text on verso touts the quality, method, list of colors, etc.…

Toledo, OH: E.B. Terry & Co., n.y. [ca. 1880]. Single, coated heavy stock card. 6¼" X 4". Good plus. Bit of edgewear. Full color lithography. Pair of huge open scissors bisects this space into four triangular scenes, each depicting children using scissors: a girl snips flowers off a tree into her friend's hat, a girl gives a little boy a haircut, a naughty girl cuts the tassels off the bottom of a Victorian parlor chair for her kitty to play with, two little girls play at cutting and sewing. Verso is blank.…

Cleveland: Johns & Co Lith, n.y. [ca. 1880]. Single, heavy stock card. 4½" X 3". Charming late 19th century trade card. Near fine. Black and white recto depicts two nearly identical side-by-side scenes: at left a woman seated in a Victorian parlor sews by candlelight, straining to see the work in her lap while a cloud above her head indicates she dreams of sitting comfortably in front of a proper tabletop newfangled sewing machine; at right a women sits in front of just such a machine -- domestic bliss! Verso is blank.…

Condition: GOOD. DATE PUBLISHED: 1900 EDITION.

Trade card [3 3/4" x 6"] The date listed is 1952, however this is most likely a reproduction.

No Binding. Condition: Good. Single-sided, chromolithographed with metallic gold background, (approx. 110 x 75 mm), circa 1880's. A charming and humorous late 19th-century trade card depicting a young child seated on a footstool, struggling to pull on striped stocking. The figure is rendered in warm tones against a rich gilt-gold background, a popular decorative effect in Victorian advertising ephemera. Likely issued as a generic or store-distributed card rather than for a single named product; no printed text is present. Good overall condition. Moderate age toning to the card stock with minor surface marks, crisp corners, no major creases or tears, or losses. Colors remain bright gold background retains strong visual appeal.…

No binding. Condition: Very Good. Picture shows a Samoyed Family in their home or hut made of skin; one of the women being at work sewing on a Singer Machine. Colored reproduction dated 1894. An excellent copy. S001.

12mo, (138mm), 168p. cuttings from serials laid down on the end-leaves and with several entries on the memoranda pages. A somewhat worn copy in original dark brown cloth, lettered and blocked in gilt and blind, a split in the rear joint. gift inscription to Mary Jane Stancliffe from her uncle Danl Sharp, dated April 1845, on the front free endleaf. Printed by the compiler Samuel N. Dickinson with a copy of his trade card printed on porcelain paper laid down on the rear pastedown endleaf and unfortunately somewhat discoloured. The contents include a business directory for the city and several pages of tradesmens' adverts.…

Condition: Very good condition. Illustrated catalogue for a variety of pumps, with many illustrations of the different models produced by the New York manufacturer. Field Force Pump Co., founded in 1882 and was the first to supply local fruit growers with pumps which could spray insecticide in the orchard. Each page with half page illustration, text & prices below. This includes: the orchard, garden & barn pump; the cistern and house pump; the well pump; the double acting marine pump; the farmer's pump; the pitcher spout pump; the tube well pump; the anti freezing stock well pump; wind mill pumps; and garden engine. With a full page illustration titled "Spray your trees, and save your fruit", depicting a farmer with a Field's pump mounted on a barrel in his wagon, "showering poisonous liquids on his trees: he is sure of a good harvest." Four pages of testimonials. Sml 8vo, 16pp, testimonials. Pale green wrappers, printed in black. Slight vertical crease.…

Condition: Very good condition. Four chromolithographic trade card samples, depicting charming children in natural settings, with a brick wall or wood fence upon which the name of the establishment can be printed. Each with a pair of children, a large floral embossed decorative border and gilt rules. All 4 cards with "No. 11" lightly stamped on verso, o/w blank at the verso. 3 1/2 x 5 1/4".…

Condition: Very good condition. Beautifully illustrated sales brochure with double spread full page illustrations of the lawn sprinkler used as a fountain as well as a sprinkler. Front wrapper with many type fonts. Printed in black on pale blue paper. Folded, 8 1/2 x 7 1/4".

Sewing machine (manufactured by Providence Tool Co. Boston) advertising card with illustration of a small Chinese boy in straw hat playing a violin to a small dog standing on its hind legs; on a gilt background. Without text at verso, but with name and address of agents at lower margin of card. Not dated. 3 x 4 1/4 in. Very sml mark upper right corner of card, o/w very good. HKD270.…

Chromolithograph, 2 1/2" x 4". The front shows a large red canna lily to the left, an aborigine crouching at the front, with a weapon, and two emu, one running. The verso of the card has some text on the plant, Canna ou Balisier, and text advertising chocolate below. In French. Overall, a pleasant card. Trove 52049133.…

Chicago: Chicago Corset Co., n.y. [ca. 1880s]. Single heavy stock card. 3" X 4 3/4". Very good. Mild bit of quite minor soiling. Color lithograph on recto depicts a Victorian parlor with a white-haired granny seated reading the "Morning News" featuring the headline cited above. One child clutching a book sits next to her, another stands behind her reading over her shoulder, and two white puppies are seated by her feet -- the picture of domestic bliss. The all-text verso proclaims "Guarantee," which states: "Any Lady purchasing one of BALL's Coiled Spring Elastic Section CORSETS can return it, after wearing it three weeks, to the dealer from whom it was bought, if not found Perfectly Satisfactory in Every Respect." This colorful card has been handsomely free-floated against a blue matte and framed in a ½" ornate gilt frame (overall dimensions 5¼" X 7") with a copy of the all-text verso mounted on the back of the frame.…

Small colour chromolithograph trade card, printed on thick paper stock (lightly toned, old minor glue offsetting on verso), still VG copy. Scarce and nicely printed Victorian chromolithograph card signed by Mayer in the lower right corner, and copyright information in lower left.

N.p. [Lynn, MA]: Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, n.y. [ca. 1883]. Single heavy stock card. 4" X 2½". Very good. Mild bit of minor soiling. Steel-engraving on recto depicts a broad view of this then-state-of-the-art suspension bridge -- and of course suspended along the underside of the main horizontal bridge, at center of the card, is a long vast billboard reading "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." Numerous sailboats, a large paddlewheeler, tugboats, etc., fill the bay. Below the caption near the lower edge is a three-line text listing the bridge's statistics: span, cable size, width, tower height and so on. The all-text verso touts the virtues of this patent medicine, "a Positive Cure For all those painful Complaints and Weaknesses so common to our best female population. It will cure entirely the worst form of Female Complaints, all Ovarian troubles, Inflammation and Ulceration, Falling and Displacements, and the consequent Spinal Weakness, and is particularly adapted to the Change of Life." A nice example of this well-known card from the most famous patent medicine producer of the 19th century -- likely produced in the very year of her death (she was born 1819).…

Ephemera. Condition: Fine. The Hub Gore company exhibited at the World's Colombian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 where this card was handed out. Printed by the Beacon Lith. Co. as a chromolithographed trade card with the text below reading: '"Uncle Sam," the Wonderful Edison Talking Automaton at the World's Fair, delivering 40,000 speeches during the exhibition about Highest Award, Gold Medal, Hub Gore.' 6 x 3.75", full color Uncle Sam on stilts in front of a crowd. Verso tan with b&w illustrations and text ('The Pair of Congress Shoes is Insured.', 2 red marks as printed.…

Unbound. Condition: Good. First Edition. Single sided engraved porcelain trade card, approximately 85mm x 125mm in size, n.d. but c.1842. Minor tarnishing to edges, remnants of glue and card where removed from an album to reverse, but generally quite bright and clean. Quite an attractive trade card, showing a fountain and a table top with ices, cakes, and fruit, the text to the foot mentions that "dinners, routs, and suppers furnished" Size: 24mo. Ephemera. …

First Edition. 4 5/8 x 2 7/8" yellow label or recipe slip with directions for preparing "Archangel Ox & Reindeer Tongues" distributed by "M. Wood & Co., 73, Old Broad Street." We assume the tongues were imported to England from Russia. Though no date or city appears on the label we do find mention of this delicacy in an advertisement for the "Fortnum, Mason & Co." Piccadilly "Foreign Ware House" in the Dec. 29 1882 issue of "The Pembrokeshire Herald and General Advertiser" (a Welsh newspaper digitized and available online). One handwritten correction. Very good to near fine with light staining mostly to recto. Rare glimpse into the preparation recommended for a dining delicacy that would appear to have long since fallen from favor.…

Ephemera. Condition: Very good condition. A color trade card from Arbuckle Bros. with illustration of aboriginal with boomerang, and others on brumbies, kangaroos, children swinging on ropes in front of domed huts, cockatoo and rabbit. Verso advertises Arbuckle coffee "Grind your coffee at home." and information on Australia. This is No. 32 in series of 50. Small white border around image, small chip at bottom not affecting image or text, 3x5". VG. …

Condition: Very good condition. Color trade card with colorful Budgies on a fence with flowers. Text on verso describes Castilian Cream "removes grease and fresh pain from clothing. It will also remove gloss from Woolen Coats and Black Silk and cleanse Black Crape." by F.C. Lord & Co. in Boston. Approx. 4.5 x 2.75". Slt. dusty on front edges, slt. toning on verso, o/w vgc. …

French food company trading card advertising chicory (La Belle Jardiniere brand) with an illustration of the gates to the Imperial Palace in Peking, also with a coat of arms and the portrait of a Chinese woman. Lille, not dated, ca. 1890. 4 1/4 x 2 3/4" with advertising copy on the back. Colors bright and fresh; very good. HKD350.…

French chocolate company trading card with a portrait illustration of the Chinese empress Tse-hi, with the title of the card and the number 439 at the bottom and with Chocolat Guerin-Boutron in a decorative border at the top. Paris, not dated, ca. 1890. 4 1/4 x 2 3/4" with advertising copy on the back. Colors bright and fresh; very good. HKD350.…