Description: Auction Wizard 2000 Listing Template - AW2KLOT#:12031 1890 Ladies Perfumed Calendar Trade Card for Hoyt German Cologne We ship worldwide! To see all my Victorian Trade Cards click here... Bungalowblondie Trade Cards This gorgeous advertising trade card is from 1890. For Hoyts German Cologne with a beautiful image of flowers mixed in with a full year calendar for 1890. This card was perfumed at the time and you could smell the cologne on it. Sadly the scent hasnt quited lasted the past 125 years. On the back is a little info about the perfume / cologne. In very good condition. Just some very slight wear on the edges and corners. 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 faded by the early 1900s when other forms of advertising in color, such as magazines, became more cost effective. Although trade card collecting began over 100 years ago, today's strong interest in trade cards began relatively recently. Trade cards that were bought for ten cents thirty years ago frequently bring ten dollars or more in today's market--and some have even sold for over a thousand dollars.
Price: 18.4 USD
Location: San Diego
End Time: 2024-11-19T05:00:58.000Z
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