Agent's sample book of visiting cards / from Ray Card Co., North Haven, Conn. [ca. 1880-ca. 1900.]

Format:

Archive

Author/Creator:

Ray Card Company.

Contributor:

Heath, Henry William., Former owner.

Trade Catalogue Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ray Card Company--Catalogs.

Ray Card Company.

Sales by sample.

Visiting cards--Catalogs.

Visiting cards.

Social stationery.

Genre:

Visiting cards.

Sample books.

Trade catalogs -- Visiting cards.

Physical Description:

1 v. (28 p.) : col. ill., (38 mounted samples) ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

[ca. 1880-ca. 1900.]

Summary:

Consists of [38] chromolithograph sample calling cards mounted to pages; prices are handwritten in pencil or ink above many of the items; most of the cards are brightly colored and have sentimental messages of friendship and love; some of the designs are for hidden name cards which could conceal a name within an envelope or under a decorated flap; most card designs are elaborate with fancy cut-out, lace or silk fringed borders; some designs have ribbons and are embossed; flowers (mainly roses), birds and outstretched female hands predominate the designs.

Notes:

Cover title.

"Price 25 cents. Given as a premium for a $1.00 card order."

Bound in heavy paper covers; pages are doubled over and stapled to binding.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Signed on back cover: Henry William Heath, Bradford, Vt.

Athenaeum copy: Housed together with "New pocket sample book no. 1" and "New pocket sample folder no. 1", also produced and sold by the Ray Card Company of North Haven, Connecticut.