Trade Catalogues & Price Lists
Trade Catalogue, Sundries and Notions, General Store, Marketing and Promotion
Manchester, NH: John B. Clarke Co., c1930. 36pp. wraps. A pun by the owner titles the catalog a "dummy" salesman. The inside cover includes "Our Policy" First - To be Reliable, always. Second - Good Service. It's to our mutual advantage. Third - Dependable Merchandise, at one printed price. An.....
Price: $55.00
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
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
Lighting, antique, trade catalog
Manufacturer: I. Sack Cabinet Hardware Co. Location: Boston, MA Date: c1920 Pages: Two sections of 61, numbered, printed single sided pages, one section is the illustrations and descriptions of items, the second is the corresponding price list. Subject Matter: Lighting The catalog is a folder with brad clips. It is.....
Price: $95.00
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
Advertising and Promotion, Cork, Manufacturing
Pittsburgh, PA, J. Millin, [1870]. Armstrong Bros. A 15" x 22" broadside depicting 70 different sizes and styles of corks. They include Straight, Taper, Short Taper. Long Straight, Wine Corks and a Cork Driver and Faucet. Finely arrayed and captioned. Reverse is blank. (#21000694)...
Price: $95.00
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
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, eclectibles, paper dolls, paper americana, ephemera, paper toy, menus, travel americana, children's books, valentines, documents, correspondence
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
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
Illustrated Catalogue, Price List, Undergarments and Hosiery, Fabrics and Textiles
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Young, Smyth, Field Company, 1912. Fall and Winter offerings from Young, Smyth, Field Company. The expansive listing includes men and women's underwear, hosiery, and gloves; each item is named and labeled with inventory number, sizing, fabrics and materials. Many are photo-illustrated. 8vo (8.75" by 5.75"), pp. 144, with.....
Price: $100.00
Trade Catalogue, Visiting Cards, Address Cards, Social History
Clintonville, CT: Clinton Brothers, [1880]. A twofold or 6pp brochure with an illustration of the two brothers promoting their "Fashionable Visiting and Address Cards" Special attention will be paid to orders by mail Content includes pricing information for Centennial Chromo, Illuminated Chromo and Water Cards, Glass, Embossed Mourning, French Enameled.....
Price: $225.00
Mining, Mining equipment, Concentrating Table
Fort Wayne, IND: The Deister Concentrator Company, 1915. 72 pp. Comprehensive descriptions provided for their concentrating tables. B&W illustrations of the table, and its individual parts are included. Prices not listed. Covers show some wear, with a few intact tears along the edge. The first few interior pages have foxing.....
Price: $75.00
sewing, women's work, embroidery, rug, rug patterns, catalogue, advertising, women's work
Boston, MA: E. S. Frost & Co.'s Turkish Rug Patterns, 1881. An advertising booklet for E. S. Frost & Co.'s Turkish Rug Patterns which starts out by promoting the employment options involved to all persons, men, women and children, in the field of rug making. Men can become official agents.....
Price: $110.00
tissue paper, paper products, crafts
New Haven, CT: Northrop, The Art Dealer, 1886. 16 pp. staple booklet. Yellow wraps.. Instructs the reader on how to make various tissue paper flowers or other items such as tissue paper lamp shades. Instructions on making Tulip, White, Jasmine and Fuchsia. The last few pages of the booklet have.....
Price: $75.00
Advertising and Promotion, Calendars, Advertising Ephemera and Novelties, Salesman Sample
Cincinnati OH: George H. Jung Co., 1927-1929. A salesman's kit for the George H. Jung Company, Calendars and Advertising Specialties. It consists of approximately 125 items. It includes: An Advertising Blotters Catalog - 44 pp. with 3-6 specimens per page, information on sizes, pricing and a tipped in envelope inside.....
Price: $1,100.00
trade catalogue, magic, card magic, cards, card deck
Carmel, CA: Kard King Studios, Sep-45. A trade catalogue about the "art" of card magic. Published by Kard King Studios, a magic shop that specializes in magic done with a deck of cards. The catalogue itself is a single fold blue heavy stock cover, with four legal size pages attached.....
Price: $95.00
household & furnishing, advertising, women's work, trade catalogue, food & wine, trade catalogues
Lowell, MA: Woods, Sherwood & Co., 1878. A catalogue for items of "wire ware" which essentially means any item in which all or part of the item is made from wire. Some examples of items sold are: tea or coffee stainers, spiral egg beaters, egg stands, tooth brush holder, and.....
Price: $225.00
stationary, cards, post cards, trade catalogue
Alexandria, VA: A. S. Mankin & Co., [1912-1913]. A trade catalogue for a stationary company, called A. S. Mankin & Co., out of Alexandra, VA. The company sold a variety of cards and post cards for all sorts of occasions. While the majority of the cards were made from paper.....
Price: $110.00
Sewing Machine Needles, Advertising and Promotion, Price List
8.13. A 2 3/4" x 4 1/4" illustrated business card for Howe Machine Company in Watertown NY. Artistic printing adorns the front. caption of Cheap, Simple & Durable. The reverse is a price list of sewing machine needles by the dozen and by the 100. Among he more expensive are.....
Price: $85.00
trade catalogue, gas, compress air, science, business history
New York, NY: Chas. Beseler, 1888. A wonderful illustrated scientific trade catalogue of compress air atomizers and gas pumps. There are seventeen (17) engravings throughout the trade catalogue, some of the illustrations are of:a compressed air receiver, novelty air pump, gas compressor, and an inhaling apparatus. This trade catalog was.....
Price: $175.00
Trade Catalogue,
Richland, PA: M. R. Landis, 3.29. 4 pp. pulp paper trade catalogue for printers including presses, imposing stones, a wide array of type, dashes, humorous cuts and more, Also includes the original envelop addressed to R. G. Railey in Forkton KY. Measures 11" x 8" M.R. Landis started the first.....
Price: $250.00