1890s Victorian Era Trade Card Sea Foam w/ Butterfly Lady
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1890s Victorian Era Trade Card Sea Foam w/ Butterfly Lady We ship worldwide! To see all my Victorian Trade Cards .. Bungalowblondie Victorian Trade Cards This trade card is from the 1880-1900s era. For Sea Foam by Gantz, Jones & Co New York. After I read the ad I still don't know what this stuff is. Perhaps a cleaning product? Fun image on front of a lady with butterfly wings floating over the ocean. Measures 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. 10/2014 Brief History of Trade Cards by Ben Crane Over a century ago, during the Victorian era, one of the favorite pastimes was collecting small, illustrated advertising cards that we now call trade cards. These trade cards evolved from cards of the late 1700s used by tradesmen to advertise their services. Although examples from the early 1800s exist, it was not until the spread of color lithography in the 1870s that trade cards became plentiful. By the 1880s, trade cards had become a major way of advertising America's products and services, and a trip to the store usually brought back some of these attractive, brightly-colored cards to be pasted into a scrapbook. Some of the products most heavily advertised by trade cards were in the categories of: medicine, food, tobacco, clothing, household, sewing, stoves, and farm. The popularity of trade cards peaked around 1890, and then almost completely
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