Saturday, March 15, 2014

Trade Cards: Hearts Are Glad When Thou Dost Grow

These McCullough's trade cards are from 1888.  They are special because they are designed for the seed merchant to feature his flowers.  I more commonly find a sappy and  generic trade card from this period that seedsmen have used, or a very business like card with text only.  

I checked...the quote above isn't a quote.






Below is a sample of an off-the-shelf design that might be used by many sorts of businesses.



This Rice's card is really nice and snappy, not sappy, but I bet it was a generic blank
 to which the printer just added Rice's name.











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