Trade Catalogues & Price Lists
Horse and Buggy,Phaetons
Cortland, New York: C.B. Hitchcock, 1882. Scarce 1882 trade catalogue of buggies and phaetons sold by Cortland Buggy and Cutter Works of Cortland, New York. Includes over fifty pages of items, illustrated and briefly described, with prices offered "on application". Also advertises hardware and replacement parts, e.g. harnesses and dashes.....
Price: $225.00
Silversmiths,Silver Spoons,Shakespeare Memorabilia,Midsummer Night's Dream
Chicago, Illinois: Wendell and Company, c.1891. A handsome trade catalogue advertising collectible silver spoons manufactured by a Chicago silversmith. Features a highly stylized cover showing their "Puck Spoon", which references a line in Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" when Puck boasts he can "put a girdle round about the earth in.....
Price: $150.00
Luxury Retailers,East Meets West,Harvey Nichols,History of Department Stores
London, England: Harvey Nichols & Co. Ltd., 1920s. A 1920s catalogue of lampshades and cushions sold by the luxury retailer Harvey Nichols & Co. Ltd., offering a dizzying array of color and flair to add to any boudoir or ballroom. Includes Moroccan and East Asian influence, showing the British public's.....
Price: $175.00
Material Culture and History,Sunday School,Children's School Supplies and Novelties
Elgin, Illinois: David C. Cook Publishing Co, 1922. An early 1920s trade catalogue advertising "Sunday School Supplies & Holiday Specialties" sold by a publishing house in Elgin, Illinois. Includes hundreds of offerings ranging from books and lesson plans to invitations, pins, badges, banners, records and reports, certificates, library cards, pocket.....
Price: $150.00
religion, catalog, ephemera, religion, mennonites, religious education, trade catalog
Scottdale, PA: Mennonite Publishing House, 1932. 120pp. Yellow paper wrapper. Small illustration of an alter with a bible on top on the front cover, black and white photograph of the Mennonite Publishing House on the back accompanied by a list of services they provide and their address. Catalog includes anything.....
Price: $85.00
Beauty,Hairdressing and Hair Salons,Material Culture,Vinyl,Bakelite,Laminate,20th Century Interior Decor
United States: c.1960. A collection of approx. fifteen (15) trade catalogs and price lists advertising beauty salon furniture, supplies, and equipment in 1960, with samples of material. Housed in or alongside an original branded binder from the salon equipment provider Romito-Donnelly of Ravenna, Ohio; other makers include Belvedere Products Inc......
Price: $650.00
Interior Design
New York, New York: The McCabe Hanger Manufacturing Co., 1890s. Trade catalogue for the McCabe Hanger Manufacturing Co., advertising their Accordion or Folding Door Hanger system. Includes a blueprint-style illustration of how the system works, as well as two illustrations of the finished folding doors in open and closed position.....
Price: $225.00
General Motors, Vehicles
Oakland, California: Walker Parccar Co., 1930s. Illustrated advertising pamphlet for the Walker Parccar Parking System, a clever mechanism that, when attached to the undercarriage of a vehicle, allows the driver to swing it into even the tightest of parking spaces. Includes photos of the product in use, as well as.....
Price: $175.00
Andirons, furnisher, fireback, fire tools
Manufacturer: Todhunter Location: New York Date: c1920s Pages: A single 4-fold brochure Subject Matter: Brief descriptions for andrions, fireback and fire tools with an enclosed price list. There are 10 B&W photographs of the items being sold. The descriptions include what they are made from, if they are reproductions, and.....
Price: $65.00
Decoration, wrapping, parade
Manufacturer: Dennison Manufacturing Location: Boston Date: 1914 Pages: 96 Subject Matter: Decorations made from Paper Comprehensive descriptions and pricing. Samples of crepe and tissue paper are included. Images from B&W photos of the products and uses, as well as both B&W and color illustrations for possible design ideas and uses.....
Price: $75.00
Salesman's Sample Book,Paper Manufacturing
Irvington, N.J. Artcote Papers, Inc., 1940s-50s. A mid-century salesman's sample book with eighteen (18) samples of gold and silver papers produced by Artcote Papers, Inc. of Philadelphia. Each sample is labeled with order number, weight or other identifier (e.g. "heavy", "gummed"), and trimmed size. Would most likely have been used.....
Price: $200.00
Lighting, antique, trade catalog
Boston & New York: I. Sack Cabinet Hardware Co., c1920. A promotional folder assembled for a customer with the first section of 22 pages of illustrations and brief descriptions of the items (three to nine illustrations per page. The second section has 22 pages of corresponding price list with instructions.....
Price: $175.00
Salesman's Sample Books and Dummies,Printing Ink,Printing Arts,Glassine
Boston, Massachusetts: Barta-Griffin Company, c.1950. A book of dozens of printing ink samples by the Barta-Griffin Company, including: standard colors; label colors overprinted with varnish; standard process colors; halftone inks; dull finish halftone colors; magazine black; and standard bond colors. There are also fifteen (15) samples of printing inks on.....
Price: $350.00
Fur and Trapping,Fur Trade,History of Animal Cruelty,History of Casual Gun Use in America
St. Louis, Missouri: F.C. Taylor Fur Co., 1931. The 1931-1932 edition of the "Book of Traps, Guns and Trappers' Supplies", a trade catalogue advertising products sold to fur trappers. Front cover shows a smiling trapper handing over a bundle of furs to the mailman in exchange for more traps. The.....
Price: $100.00
hunting, traps, trapping, firearms, guns,
Manufacturer: FC Taylor Fur Company Location: St. Louis Date: 1931 Pages: 52 (including covers) Subject Matter: Hunting, trapping Comprehensive descriptions with prices. Full color covers, with the interior page's illustrations mostly in B&W, but with orange accents on some pages. Besides the illustrations of the items being sold, there are.....
Price: $70.00
ABAA-RBMS-2026,Milton Bradley,Pedagogy,Kindergarten
Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Co, 1890s. A scarce trade catalogue of school aids and material sold by the famous Milton Bradley, then styling themselves as "Manufacturers and Publishers [of] Kindergarten Material and Furniture, Elementary Physical Apparatus, Educational Games and Home Amusements" (upper wrapper). Notable for its inclusion of a variety.....
Price: $450.00
Water-Proof,Rubber
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: R.A. Humphrys, c.1900. Trade catalogue for R.A. Humphrys, "Manufacturer of Water-Proof Horse Covers, Oiled Clothing, Wagon Covers" as well as "Rubber Clothing", tarpaulins, carriage cloths, feed bags and covers for horses, etc. A full assemblage of products for horse and buggy drivers to endure wet and cold weather.....
Price: $125.00
Interior Design,Doors and Windows
San Francisco, California: The California Door Company, 1915. Trade catalogue, in attractive purple embossed wrappers printed in gold and silver, for the California Door Company. Includes over twenty tabs with pricing for dozens of products ranging from colonial doors to sashes, casements, and French windows. Illustrations, pricing, and model numbers.....
Price: $350.00
fraternal, National Benevolent Society, trade catalogue
Kansas City, MO: National Benevolent Society, 1925. This catalogue lists a variety of items for purchase for the National Benevolent Society's Lodges to use. Some of the items listed are: ballot boxes, ballots, ode cards, gavels, hoodwinks (masks), wigs (and beards), staffs, papier-mache skeletons, various robes and costumes for members.....
Price: $200.00
Buffalo Bill,Dime Novels,Bibliographies and Hand Lists,Collecting,Book Dealer Catalogues
Red Bank, New Jersey: John A. Hayes, 1936. A scarce and valuable list of Victorian dime novels for sale in 1936 by the dealer John A. Hayes, including a brief essay by Charles Bragin on a recent rise in dime novel collecting: "Thus we find the Library of Congress, the.....
Price: $200.00
advertising, celluloid advertising cases, parisian novelty co
Chicago, IL: Parisian Novelty C, 1917-1923. 20pp. Printed on dark green paper, cover has a small illustration of the Parisian Novelty Company building, printed between the title and publisher. An important maker of celluloid compacts and vanity cases in the 1920s, as well as celluloid backed hand advertising mirrors and.....
Price: $375.00
art catalog, George Bellows
Catalog of the George Bellows Memorial Exhibition, held in 1925 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 132 pages. Contains catalogs of oil paintings, drawings and lithographs. All of the paintings, twelve of the drawings, and thirteen of the lithographs, have been reproduced in the catalog, a total of eighty-eight plates.....
Price: $55.00
Horticulture,Gardening
Hope’s Leadwork For the Garden, Catalog #20, dated May, 1932, from Hope’s Windows Inc., Jamestown, New York. Catalog contains 58 pages, most of which have illustrations of lead statuary, some shown in garden settings.. Some stonework also shown. Excellent reference work. Condition: few spots, minor soiling, covers; minor soiling, end.....
Price: $40.00
printing, poultry, live stock, farming, farmers, advertising, billhead, stationary
New York: Riverside Press. A catalogue that list and provides examples of illustrations that Poultry and Live Stock Breeders can use while advertising their products. At the beginning there is a price list for different sizes of envelopes, note head, memo head, letter heads, statements, shipping tags, post cards, circulars.....
Price: $100.00