Description: This offer is for a vintage/antique Victorian TradingCard for "Muzzy's Starch" on the front and achild's picture. The child is holding a bouquet offlowers with "Muzzy's Starch" written on the edgeof the bouquet holder. A delightful sepia tonepicture. The back of the card contains three recipes,White Cake, Corn Starch Pudding and French Cake.There is also an ad forMuzzy's Sun Gloss Starch. The card measures 2 3/4" x 6 1/4".See below for a short history of advertising cardsby Ben Crane.Comments, questions and offers welcomed! FAST one day handling, FREE shipping100% money back guarantee.Thank you for looking. 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: 18.95 USD
Location: Bemidji, Minnesota
End Time: 2024-12-17T17:45:47.000Z
Shipping Cost: 0 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Brand: Muzzy's Corn Starch
Type of Advertising: Victorian Trade Card
Color: Sepia colors
Date of Creation: 1880's
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
California Prop 65 Warning: N/A
