Best Girl" Couple Hair Joke #90 Arbuckle Coffee Card

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1880's Victorian Advertising Trade Card: "Arbuckle Bros. Coffee Co." of New York, women's issues satire joke comic series. Go to my STORE SEARCH above (to the right of my store logo"TradeCardGuy" w/ cards) and type in any word (try for example " Arbuckle " or " coffee ") ...then hit "SEARCH" to see what I have as listed in EVERY category ! ! Authentic 100% Guaranteed Original ".... I don't think it is very becoming of me ...." ======================================= HEROIC MEASURES GEORGE (to best girl)--"I see that you are wearing a bang, my dear Clara." CLARA--"Yes, George, and I don't think it is very becoming to me." GEORGE--"Then why do you wear it, darling?" CLARA (shyly)--"Because I am tired of being kissed on the forehead, George." FROM "TEXAS SIFTINGS" BY PERMISSION. ======================================= -- Dialog text above lifted from Jeff Buck's wonderful "ArbyCards" web site! (I urge you to google his site and have some fun!) 1880's Advertising Trade Card for: "Arbuckle Bros. Coffee Co." of New York Size : approx. 3 x 5 inches - - as indicated by ruler in scans. Condition : 120+ years = possible evidence of aging, wear, creases, corner damage etc. See HUGE scans! See HUGE Scans ... for any and all FLAWS! Reverse Sides in this SERIES come in 4 versions: BLUE or BLACK INK- w/ Factory View or Text. FACTORY VIEW cards say: Ariosa Coffee / 839,972 Pounds Roasted Daily. The Enormous Consumption of the Popular Brand give Proof that for STRENGTH, PURITY and DELICIOUSNESS it has no equal." TEXT cards say: "Arbuckles' Ariosa Coffee / Costs more and is worth / More than other brands of Coffee / WHY? / 1st. It is made from green coffee of higher grade ... etc. / 2d. Its entire strength and aroma are retained by our process of glazing coffee. / 3d. The ingredients used in glazing are the choices eggs... sugar... etc. / 4th The glazing composed of eggs and sugar not only retains the full strength and aroma of our coffee, but gives to it a richness of flavor... etc. / BEWARE of buying low-grade package coffee... etc." Arbuckle issued 18 different series of cards (over 1,000 total images) between the 1860's and 1915. A few of their sets included racially offensive "Negro Comic," "Irish Help," and other offensive ethnic cards such as this. Cards from the K 7a "Comic Illustrations with Joke" series are numbered #1 - #50. Cards from the K 7b "Comic Illustrations with Joke" series are numbered #51 - #100. This series was printed by Geo. S. Harris & Sons of Philadelphia in the 1880's. Comics are reproduced from Judge, Texas Siftings and Puck Magazines. These cards can be found with either TEXT ("Four Points To Buy Arbuckles' Ariosa Coffee" -vertical) or FACTORY VIEW "Arbuckle's Factory Complex" (horizontal, factory view). The jokes in this series range from clever word plays with middle class professionals and befuddled white people to crude "poverty" or "Tramp" jokes as well as cruel racist humor directed at immigrant laborers and ethnic minorities. NOTE: American History Horrors -- -- For samples of my publications on the topic of ethnic bigotry and racist stereotypes in advertising, visit my store and order a back issue of: The Advertising Trade Card Quarterly -- especially: Winter 1994, Winter 1995, and Summer 1998. After over 30 years of collecting, I'm thinning my archives of thousands and thousands of pre-1900 cards. This collection includes items common and affordable to one-of-a-kind rarities that I have used to illustrate over 150 published articles and numerous books, including my now out-of-print 1996 classic: VICTORIAN TRADE CARDS - HISTORICAL REFERENCE & VALUE GUIDE, by Dave Cheadle. Be sure to subscribe to my STORE NEWSLETTER and to add me to your favorites list ! As a life-long collector and social historian, and as the founding editor of the Trade Card Collectors Association's journal, "The Trade Card Quarterly," I can certify that all items offered are authentic and fully guarantee... read more

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