Abendroth Bros.

The Cotton Plant, Vol. II --- No. 3

New York, Abendroth Bros. 1870. First Edition. Large advertising piece in a newspaper format; 19 3/4 x 14 1/4; pp. [4]; illustrated with engravings; fold lines and a few small closed splits and creases to edges; in about very good condition. An unrecorded advertising for the Abendroth Bros. products, with emphasis on the Cotton Plant Stove, it also featured articles on the Franco-Prussian War, the wide-spread adoration for the "Shoo Fly Don't Bother Me" song (said to have been written by a soldier a few years earlier, during the Civil War), etc. It also showcased writings by, allegedly, customers, including a short one by a "Texan," with questionable for the times morale, which was titled "Conjugal Confusion" and told a story of railway men, wives visiting, confused hotel employees, and switched women. The Abendroth Bros. Stove Foundry was established in 1840. One of the largest foundries on the East Coast, at its height it employed 700 people. Very good .

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Book number: 003909

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Anonymous

Glascock's Baby Products Advertisement

[Muncie, Indiana], [Glascock Bros. Mfg. Co.], 1898. First Edition. A small pamphlet; single leaf, folded, pp. [4]; 6 x 3 1/2; beige stock, illustrated with photographs; several faint creases to lower margin; a few minor nicks to upper corners and edge; very good condition. An interesting advertisement for Glascock's baby products, which included strollers, bouncers, etc. and were quite popular in the late 19th- and early 20th centuries. This pamphlet included photographs (with children in each one) and descriptions of the Combined Baby Jumper and Rocking Chair (combines a bed, jumper, rocking chair, and high chair), the Combined Baby Tender and Walker, another chair-craddle-bed combination, and a Beautiful Go-cart. Very good .

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Book number: 002293

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Anonymous

Here's Bygone Days. The 125 Pice Jig-Saw Puzzle That You Get -Free- with a 50c. Tube of Kolynos...

S. l. (Brooklyn, NY), Consolidated Lithographing Corp. 1935. First Edition. A jigsaw puzzle in the original envelope, n. d. (ca 1935); pieces unbroken, laid on a card stock piece and sealed with a plastic film; 9 x 12; minor wear to edges of pieces; very good or better condition. Envelope printed in black; small creases and tears to corners; very good condition. An interesting advertising piece, it was offered to customers with the purchase of Kolynos Dental Cream "that whitens teeth 3 shades in 3 days." The brand of oral care products was created by Newell Sill Jenkins in 1908 and became extremely popular in the 1930s and 1940s. Among other things, it sponsored several well-loved radio programs and was mentioned in several classic literary works, including "The Catcher in the Rye" and "Midnight's Children. Very good .

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Book number: 002334

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Anonymous

The Miss Legs of America Pageant. Over $50,000. 00 in Cash and Prizes

Georgetown, Steppin' Out Productions and Windjammer Barefoot Cruises, 1980. First Edition. Brochure, n. d. (ca 1980); 5 1/2 x 4 1/4; pp. [4], printed on rectos only; cream stock, printed in black; illustrated with a photograph; minor creasing and wear to edges and corners; very good condition. An advertising brochure for The Miss Legs America National Preliminary, which was sponsored by Steppin' Out Productions and Windjammer Barefoot Cruises (a Miami-based, leisure cruise line, which was founded in 1947) and was held at the iconic Georgetown Tramp's Discotheque, which was opened in 1975 by businessman Michael O'Harro and was considered the forerunner of disco clubs in the US. The text gave information on the time, the place, and the prizes of the pageant and the photograph depicted a beautiful woman (former contestant [?]), being admired/judged on stage. Very good .

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Book number: 002739

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Anonymous

A Pair of Ornate, Mid-19th-Century Textile Labels

S. l. s. n. 1850. Two labels, n. d. (mid-19th century); approx. 12 x 4 and 9 3/4 x 3 1/2; edges in lovely scalloped patterns; lavish gilt decorations on green and white backgrounds and central, chromolithographed images laid-on; one with a few remnants of paper to verso from being removed from a scrapbook, the other backed with a scrapbook leaf; a bit of wear and mild rubbing; overall in very good condition. In the early- to mid-19th century, textile labels were used to hold the ends of fancy bolts of fabric, which could be only purchased by affluent ladies, those who could afford to own fine textiles. Usually richly decorated, the labels were considered a premium bonus of a kind and often saved in scrapbooks. Many of them, including the present ones, featured an oval image of a colorful and pleasing subject - in this case, a portrait of a beautiful lady and a woman weaving a harvest crown. Very good .

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Book number: 003164

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Anonymous

Walking Sticks Dealer Trade Card

New York, Wm Demuth & Co. 1880. First Edition. Trade card; 5 1/4 x 4; pale-pink card stock, chromolithographed, embossed, with gilt and silver highlights; a bit of wear to corners and high points ofo embossed design; a few mild spots to margins; very good condition. Wilhelm Demuth (1835 - 1911), a German immigrant, founded his pipes, cigar-store figures, canes, and other carved goods company in 1862 in New York. He would become known for his superb craftsmanship and his "Columbus Landing in America" centennial meerschaum masterpiece, which took two years to produce and was exhibited at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The lavishly-illustrated trade card advertised his beautiful walking sticks. Very good .

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Book number: 002625

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anonymous

Which Card Is the Larger? Mystify Your Friends. An Illusion

S. l. Monarch Foods, 1925. First Edition. Two, die-cut, card stock pieces + original envelope; cards - 4 x 2 1/4, lithographed recto, text and photographic images to verso (of one of them); minor wear to edges and light off-setting; very good or better condition. Envelope - 4 1/2 x 2 1/2; beige stock, printed in dark-blue; a rubbed spot with glue residue to front panel; very good- condition. A wonderful advertisement for Monarch Foods, the cards featured various company products, arranged in such a way, which created an optical illusion of one of them seemingly looking smaller than the other. One of the cards also included photographs of three of the Monarch factories, in Rochester, MN, Salem, OR, and Chicago, Ill. Monarch Foods, nowadays an entity of US Foods, traced its origins to the Reid Murdoch Company, which was founded in 1853 to provision Gold Rush wagons heading west, and produced a variety of canned foods, including olive oil, vegetables, coffee, candies, etc. Very good .

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Book number: 002572

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Boston Blower Co.

Cheapest and Best Window Awning (Dearborn's Patent Blind Awning Fixture)

Boston, Mcindoe Bros. Prs. 1876. First Edition. Small broadside, n. d. (ca 1876); 9 3/4 x 5 3/4; thin beige stock, illustrated with a wood engraving and and an intricate border; text in several fancy fonts; two small nicks and several faint creases to edges; overall in very good condition. A beautiful advertising broadside for window awnings, which were manufactured by the well-known Boston Blower Company, manufacturers of various pieces of machinery (Champion Knife and Fork Scourer, etc.), window treatments, and so on. The broadside illustrated and described the reasons why one should buy the fixtures and the ways to order them. Very good .

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Book number: 002305

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Bunde & Upmeyer, Jewelers. Stationary Department

Miniature Advertising Calendar for Bunde & Upmeyer

S. l. (Milwaukee, WI), By the author, 1901. Miniature calendar; single card stock sheet, folded, pp. [4]; 2 1/8 x 1 1/2; gilt-and-chromolithograph illustration of a glass of wine, a wine bottle and a bunch of grapes; tiny crease to lower corner; a few numbers underlined in manuscript; overall in very good condition. Founded in the 1880s by Louis W. Bunde (1858-1936), the company would become one of the premiere jewelers, watch-makers, and stationers in Milwaukee at the turn of the century. The largest jewelry retailer in the state, they would also open a branch in New York, dealing only in fresh water pearls found in the rivers of Wisconsin. Very good .

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Book number: 004081

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C. I. Hood and Company

Hood's Latest

Lowell, MA, C. I. Hood & Co. 1884. First Edition. Trade card; 4 3/4 x 3 1/4; chromolithograph to recto, text in blue to verso; a bit of glue residue from previously being in a scrapbook to verso, else minor wear - in very good condition. A charming advertisement for Hood's Tooth Powder, it featured a Trompe-l'oeil effect with a woman's face breaking through a newspaper titled "Hood's Latest, Volume 6, Number 6, 1884." The text, boasting that dentists endorsed the powder, also featured several testimonials from happy customers and stated: Hood's Tooth Powder whitens and beautifies the teeth, sweetens the breath, and hardens the gums. Only twenty-five cents a bottle. Very good .

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Book number: 004011

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(Canby, E.)

A Pair of Silver Star Baking Powder with Roller-Skating Theme

Buffalo, NY, Clay and Richmond, 1880. Two large trade cards, n. d. (ca 1880); 5 1/4 x 3 1/4; lithographed illustrations with text below the images; light wear to edges and a few minor, faint spots to recto; in very good condition. A lovely pair of trade cards, they advertised the Silver Star Baking Powder, manufactured by Edward Canby in Dayton, Ohio. The first one featured a dapper gentleman on roller skates, starting to lose his ballance, his hat flying, and yelling: "Oh, my! Hand me that can of Silver Star Baking Powder. I wouldn't lose that for a great deal!" The second one showed a lady in resplendent Victorian attire, skating and proclaiming: "We use Silver Star Baking Powder only. It agrees with us. Very good .

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Book number: 003429

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Chase & Sanborn

North American Animals

Boston / Chicago / Montreal, Chase & Sanborn, Tea and Coffee Importers, 1910. First edition; 4 3/4 x 3 1/2; pp. [8]; stapled, pictorial wraps; illustrated with chromolithographs; small, closed nicks to tips of spine, else minor wear; in about near fine condition. A beautiful, tiny booklet, it was published as an advertisement for Chase & Sanborn's teas and coffees and pictured various animals of the North American continent, identified by both their English and Latin names. Near fine .

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Book number: 003447

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Dean & Son

Dean & Son's Almanack Fan 1875

S. l. (London), Dean & Son, 1875. First Edition. Die-cut, card-stock fan; 6 blades, affixed together with a small brad; 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 closed, 4 1/2 x 8 1/2 extended; chromolithographed illustrations, elaborate floral borders, and two months of the year per blade; a few spots to verso (mostly to last blade); light wear to edges; in very good condition. Founded in the late 1790s, the publishing company of Dean & Son would lay claim to being the first firm to introduce pop-up books for children. This very-scarce advertising novelty for the business was listed in Perry & Co's Monthly Illustrated Price Current as "New Perfumed Almanacs for 1875 - Dean & Son's New Goods for the Coming Season - Useful and Ornamental." This would be one of three patterns - the standard fan shape - as opposed to the screen shape and the stand shape, and Perry's would state: "Each have their separate merits as useful and art products, neat, tasteful, and exquisite in gold and many colours, and seasonable as presents or gifts. We have not seen anything better of the kind, at the price.." . Very good .

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Book number: 003799

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Decatur Extract Company

A Guide to Purity in Cooking and Care of the Health. Contains Price List of Purity Products Consisting of Flavoring Extracts, Perfumes, Soaps, Toilet Articles, Remedies, Etc. Also Valuable Health Hints, Recipes and Miscellaneous Information...

Decatur, Illinois, Decatur Extract Co. 1903. First Edition. First edition; 7 1/4 x 4 1/4; pp. [1], 2-59, [1]; speckled gray wrpas, printed and ruled in red and black; ilustrated with numerous drawings and woodcuts; small nicks to tips of spine; a few scattered spots to margins; thin strip of lower corner of back wrap excised; closed tear around staple to pp. 29-30; in good condition. The Decatur Extract Company, founded in 1897, would become known for the variety of food-, beauty-, and health-products, which were sold directly to customers through local agents and included fragrances, flavoring extracts, quack remedies, etc. The current publication, according to the company, was part reference book, part price list, and more. It gave details and prices on their wares, as well as a large section on thier quit-impressive premiums, which were given for free with their Purity Baking Powder and featured lamps, dinner sets, pocket books, and so on. Good .

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Book number: 003767

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Fairbanks & Company

Fairbanks Standard Scales. Made with the Latest and Most Valuable Improvements

New York, Wemple & Company, 1876. Leaflet, n. d. (1876); 5 3/4 x 3 1/4; pp. [4]; off-white, pictorial card stock; two chromolithographed illustrations; mild age-toning to margins; tiny nicks to tips of spine; in very good condition. A beautiful and unusual wordless advertisement for the Fairbanks Standard Scales, it illustrated the primitive scale technology in 1776 (with two men using it) and the sophisticated scales of 1876 on the facing page (only the year 1776 present, though a similar Fairbanks advertisement at the Free Library of Philadelphia lists both 1776 and 1876, presumably for comparison). One of the oldest industrial manufacturing companies in the US, Fairbanks Scales began with brothers Thaddeus and Erastus Fairbanks and their foundry, initially built in 1823 for the manufacturing of wagons, cast iron plows, and stoves. Working through the arrangement of levers and platforms, the brothers applied for their first scale patent in 1830. A tremendous success, by the beginning of the Civil War, the Fairbanks invention would play a major role in the country's industrialization and would be, arguably, the best known American product in the world. Very good .

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Book number: 003975

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