Description: This 1800's Buckeye Metamorphic Trade Card has a First Gold Medal for Harvesting Machine.The front doors of the barn open to reveal men working on a machine. It says "Buckeye Works in 1889 at Akron, O. Aultman, Miller & Co." Turn the inside upside down and you see the factory. It says "World's Victor". On the back it shows Buckeye accepting the gold medal.
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.
Measures 5-1/4" W x 4-1/8" H. Closed.
Condition: Corners and edges very slightly worn.
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11/2014