Up for auction is a good lot of 68 Victorian cards, dated from the late 1800's. 40 of the cards have advertising on them, 10 unissued cards/chromos, 7 Victorian scraps/diecuts, 1 Christmas card, 1 postcard (Mt Washington Auto Road, White Mountains New Hampshire), 1 Easter card, 3 Religious cards, 3 calling cards, 1 Label (Magnet Brand Tomatoes), 1 Reward of Merit card. Subjects on trade cards/advertisements include Ayer's Cathartic Pills (pencilling on back, rippled paper stock); Graves & Weber, Pharmacist, Atlantic, Iowa, Burdock Blood Bitters (pinholes); Rough on Rats (creases, paper loss on back, trimmed); Hughes Bros, fancy groceries, etc, Saginaw City, MICH., The Alden Fruit Vinegar (Oscar Wilde); Decanter Louis XIII; MA-LE-NA, Warriorsmark, Huntingdon Co, PA. (paper loss); Troy, Frear's Bazaar, Dry Goods, Etc; John Kelly's fine shoes, Rochester, NY (lifting on back); Quinebaug (creases, light lifting); Warner's Safe Yeast (trimmed); Hand Sapolio, Enoch Morgan's Sons; Lazell's Unrivalled Perfumes, Lazell, Dalley & Co, NY; Chicago & North Western Railway (tear); J & P Coats exhibit at the Cotton Centennial Exposition New Orleans 1885 (small edge tear, creases, soiled); Domestic Sewing Machine (creases); Walter G Wilson & Co, Biscuit Manufacturers, Philadelphia (creases); Burdock Blood Bitters (inking on back); Hughes Bros, Saginaw City, MICH.; J Lehmann, "The Fair"; Dr Warner's Coraline Corsets Bifold (paper residue covering text on inside pages of item, tears, creases); J Coulton & Co, Cleveland, OH, toy dept (trimmed); The Famous; The South Bend Pump, AT Stephenson, South Bend, IND. (lifting, trimmed); Baltimore Oriole Celebration & Pageant 1883 (trimmed); New Home Sewing Machine Co, Orange, Mass., NY (creases, soiled); JC Weber, boots & shoes; H Ebert, fancy bakery & ice cream manufactory (crease); Wm Broadhead & Sons, Jamestown, NY bifold, CH Lane, dry goods, Red Oak, Iowa (lifting, tears, creases); Round Oak stove (trimmed, creases, UL corner tip clipped); Dilworth's Coffee (lifting); Hartford Sewing Machine, Wm Robinson, dealer in sewing machines, Boone, Iowa (trimmed, tiny piece missing); Church & Phalen, dry goods, Troy; Cummins, creamery butter, combination coffee; SD Sollers & Co.'s fine shoes & slippers, DH Baker & Bro., South Bend, IND.; Henry Nix, watchmaker & jeweler, Cleveland, OH (pencilling on back, trimmed); Tarrants Seltzer Aperient (lifting, trimmed); Alfred Klingel, dealer in fine boots & shoes, South Bend, IND.; Mellin's Food, Doliber Goodale & Co, Boston, Mass.; Deering Twine Binder, William Deering, Chicago, ILL (lifting, creases); Dr JC Bostick, drugs, perfumery, toilet articles, Manton, MICH., Dr McLane's Liver Pills, Pittsburgh, PA (trimmed, creases, light lifting); etc. These were all soaked out of albums so some aren't perfect. I believe the pictures I use describe the cards better than I can, so look closely. Nice lot, you won't be disappointed. Buyer pays $4.00 S/H. Insurance is extra (check with me for cost). Shipping costs outside United States are actual costs calculated at end of auction.
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