Original trade card featuring a color illustration of flowers on a gray background. Likely doubles as a bookmark. No date, circa 1880s-1910s. 6" x 2." Trade card is very clean and intact except for slight age toning on back and a diagonal wrinkle measuring about 1 3/4" from the bottom edge. A Very Good copy. Trade card for Akehurst's, a store specializing in school stationery in Utica, New York. Trade cards are antique business cards that first became popular during the late seventeenth century in Paris and Lyon, France and London, England. Trade cards were often given by business owne... View More...
