Easter Whimsical Bunny Egg Kids Gloves Victorian Vintage c1880s Trade Card Adv

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Easter Whimsical Bunny Egg Kids Gloves Victorian Vintage c1880s Trade Card Adv:
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Easter Whimsical Bunny Egg Kids Gloves Victorian Vintage

c1800s Trade Card Adv.

Brief History of Trade Cardsby 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.

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Please enlarge the scan for actual condition. All of the trade cards, prints, and scraps are from the late 1800\'s and most have been removed from scrapbooks. Therefore, there may be remnants of paper or glue on the backside.

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