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1874-1902 VICTORIAN TRADING CARDS

A GREAT VARIETY OF SETS, SINGLES AND MORE BY NAME
Gold, Silver, Full Color, Single Color, Advertising,
Special & Stock Cards, Blank & Printed Backs, etc.

Many different Victorian cards available by Name from the selection menu above. Varieties include Gold, Silver, and multi-color or single color cards arranged by style, similarity and issuers. All cards are original and were made between 1874 and 1902 (i.e., each one is 125-150 years old), and vary in condition. Photographs of the fronts and backs of each card are found when you select a listing's name. Further details about each item appear below.

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DETAILS OF VARIETIES AVAILABLE

Scottish Boy in Kilt, Gold. “A OSTHEIM & BRO., FINE CLOTHING & TAILORING, 510 MARKET STREET, PHILADELPHIA.” French “Garçon Ecossais en Kilt” (Scottish Boy in Kilt) stock card.

Standard Screw Fastened Shoes 1874 Comic Strip. A 22 inches long by 3 & 7/16th inches wide unseparated advertising strip made up of four comic panels folded together at ends, black ink on blank-backed paper.

Western Pacific Tea, Sports 3½x5½ Lot of 4. (1) #5521 “BAGGING THE GAME” (Hunter with Dog Shooting Bird), (2) #5530 “KING OF THE TURF” (Race Horse and Two Dogs with Fans in Grandstand Behind), #5534 “AN OCEAN VIEW RIDE” (Automobile and 4 Horse Drawn Coach with Ship on Ocean in Background), #5569 “FISHERMAN'S PARADISE” (Man fishing with Hound looking on)

USA Liebig "AESOP'S FABLES" Gold 1884, ACC.#HL40, Sanguinetti Cat. #S128 Image 3 “The Raven and the Fox”, with “ANNUAL SALES EIGHT MILLION JARS”, plus “Edit Compagnie Liebig Anvers” at lower left below picture on front.

Girls w/ National Flowers 1885 Gold Set of 6. The country and its flower are: Austria (Myosotis), Turkey (Rose de Smyrne), Spain (Ceillet rouge), Italy (Violette de Parme), Russia (Snowdrop – Perce Neige) and China (Flower Tea).

Child in Trolley Chair 1873 Gold Set of 6. Complete Set, “ENFANT DANS CHAISE CHARIOT” also known as “Baby's First Steps” (“Premiers pas de les Bébe") with design like Sanguinetti #S0031 (Liebig)

Geo. M. Hayes Types ©1881, Lot of 12. The varieties in this dozen of George M. Hayes Victorian cards come with and without the inscription “COPYRIGHT 1881 BY GEO. M. HAYES”

Man with Napoleon Hat, Gold, Lot of 4. These are the “HOMME AU CHAPEAU NAPOLEON” type printed by Vallet, Minet & Cie., Paris

Hot-Air Balloon 1896 Gold. “LA MONTGOLFIÈRE” (The Hot-AIR BALLOON) of the type printed by Vallet, Minot & Cie., Paris

U.S. Clothing House, Gold, Lot of 3, located in Le Mars, Iowa, H.F. Dow, Proprietor. These trade cards are inscribed “NOVELTY CARD, CO. CHICAGO”

Child on Bed, Gold 'Brook's Spool Cotton' Lot of 3. These are stock gold blank-back cards of the “ENFANT SUR LIT” (Child on Bed) type printed by Guesnu & Minot, Paris, and overprinted in English in black ink with “We Recommend You to Use Brooks' Gold Finish and Glacé Spool Cotton On Any Sewing Machine.” Included as part of the image printing is one of the following French phrases: “JE VAIS FAIRE PEUR A MA BONNE!” (I'm going to scare my maid!), “UN DÉMENAGEMENT.” (A move), or “JE VAIS ME BASSINGER MOI-MÊME” (I'm going to “drop” myself).

Domestic Sewing Machine "Prize Livestock" Lot of 3. These full color front 5 x 3⅛ inch cards picture varieties of Domestic's “Family” Sewing Machine in black on back. The “Prize Lincoln Buck Wilton” sheep card has No. 2 Family, the “Prize Jersey Cow Rarity 3rd” card No. 3 Family, and the “$30,000 Jersey Cow rarity” No. 4 Family with the addition of “Price. $65.”

Japanese Women ©1900 x 4, "Sterling Heating Stove". Full size, full color illustrations appear on the front along with “COPYRIGHT 1900” and picture title. (The different front inscriptions read: “AT THE WELL”, “JINRIKISHA” (with Rikisha driver pulling two women), “SINGING GIRLS”, and “GOSSIP.”) On back in black ink is a picture of the “STERLING BASE HEATER-PAK” Heating Stove with text indicating Sill Stove Works, Makers, Rochester N.Y., Boston Chicago. Below is “FOR SALE BY ALEX. DAVIDSON, CANADAIIGUA, N.Y.”

Japanese Woman w/ Fan x 2 "Goodger & Naylor" Shoes. “Ladies' Misses' and Children's Fine Machine Sewed Shoes” Rochester, N.Y., 'FOR SALE BY SPEELMAN & HAVENS, 42 MAIN ST., PENN YAN, N.Y.”

World Champions-Allen & Ginter - Schaefer & Ike Weir. (1885-1895) Allen & Ginter's Cigarettes (Richmond, Virginia) “The World's Champions” 1st Series ACC. No. 28, Pugilists IKE WEIR and Billiard Players J. SCHAEFER, “Linder Eddy & Clauss Lith N.Y.”

'Sapanule' Glycerine Lotion, Three Children type, 3 different. “l. SUNDERLAND LITH. PROVIENCE, R.I.”

Bufford, Gilbert & Sullivan “Providence” Oscar Wilde Type. “PICKERING'S MUSIC HALL, MANCHESTER, N.H.”, with Bufford's “JHB” logo. Varieties include ”In a rapt ecstatic way”, “A very daisy”, “How earnestly pleasant” and “How true our love! - He was a little boy!”.

RED CROSS COUGH DROPS” “BERLIN ROYAL-CASTLE”. Blank-back.

”SINCLAIR'S 2nd. PRIZE SERIES. COPYRIGHT 1881 BY GEO. M. HAYES”. “M. Rosemthal DeCo. 214”, Blank-back.

J.& P. COATS' SPOOL THREAD 6 Different. Includes three ethnic cards: (1) “Come in Topsey out of the rain. You'll get Wet.--Oh! It won't hurt me Missy, I'm like COATS BLACK THREAD. De Color won't come off by wettin'.”; (2) “EF DIS DON'T FETCH YOU NOTHING WILL”; and (3) without text, picking chicken feathers. Copyrighted, 1881, by Auchincloss & Bro., New York.. Also included is “That's the kind! Bring me some more” by Ketterlinus, Philadelphia; four children sailing masted boats; and Monkey feeding Fish to Cat.

KERR”S Spool Cotton Thread '$ Brand', 2 different. One inscribed “Just the kind Mama told me to get!”, and the other “KERR'S BALCK is FAST DYE”.

CLARK'S MILE END SPOOL Thread, Athletics. Clown and Three Children engaged in the sport of Jumping.

die-cut Gold “Manufacturers of SPOOL SKEIN & EMBROIDERY SILKS”. 2¼x3⅛ in.Gold, die-cut with full-length image of Boy with Letter and Flower Bouquet.

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