[Donaldson Printers]

Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton Mechanical Trade Card c1880 [German Text]

Small chip on the upper right edge; Loss of text/material on upper edge where it was once attached in an album [?] . Typical even age-toning; Modest handling. Approximately5.5 inches tall when opened. 3.5 inches wide.

This Metamorphic trade card  is advertising Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton. The full color graphic are bright.

Background Information:
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market.

Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.

Item #17774

Price: $14.95