c1895 Large Antique Advertising Trade Card Walter Baker & Co. Chocolate & Cocoa

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c1895 Large Antique Advertising Trade Card Walter Baker & Co. Chocolate & Cocoa:
$7.99

The item for sale is a large original antique advertising Victorian chromolithograph trade card made circa 1895.
The card measures9 1/4 X 6 1/2inches and is in fair / poor condition due to small losses in the lower corners, small surface losses, bends, creases, tears on the edges, stains, foxing spots, age toning and soiling.
The front of the cards reads : \"Walter Baker & Co. Ltd., Dorchester, Mass., Cocoa and Chocolate Preparations.\"
There is more advertising printed on the back.
Please see the photos & scans included with the description for condition and feel free to ask any questions.
*The cropped scan is greatly enlarged to show detail.*
The trade card is shown on a black background in order to show the edges, it is not attached to another sheet.

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A chromolithograph is a lithographic process patented by Godefroy Engelmann in 1837. For every color present in the image, a sepearte printing stone or plate had to be inked. The colors were built up in transparent layers. (Unlike photomechanical processes which use precise dots of only three colors red-blue-yellow and black and to get the other colors the dots are put close together). The way to distinguish a chromolithograph from a later color printing technique is to look at it with a magnifying glass. If it breaks up into color \"blops\" it is a chromo, if it breaks up into perfect rows of dots under magnification it is a photomechanical process. Chromolithography was used mainly between 1855 to 1905.