1890s Estero Piano Company Victorian Advertising Trade Card Family Living Room

Description: Auction Wizard 2000 Listing Template - AW2KLOT#:14084 1890s Estero Piano Company Victorian Advertising Trade Card Family Living Room We ship worldwide! To see all my Victorian Trade Cards click here... Bungalowblondie Trade Cards Victorian era advertising trade card from the 1890s era. An advertising card for a piano company called Estero Piano Company in New York. Great image of a Victorian household and the little boy looks a little hesitant about his first lesson. Through the window is the factory. Measures 5 x 7 and in great condition. 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.

Price: 32 USD

Location: San Diego

End Time: 2024-12-19T05:01:16.000Z

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