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No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Original trade card with a color illustration of a comedic scene titled, "The Firecrackers Explode--A Soul Stirring Climax." The scene involves two men, a boy, and a dog and shows their thwarted plan after firecrackers went off. One of the men is doubled over and has face-planted in a box of Fairbank's "Lakeside" Soap. The top of the illustration reads, "Buy Fairbank's 'Lakeside' Soap and Use No Other." No date, 1890s-1910s. 3" x 4 1/2." Trade card is very clean and intact overall except for age toning, slight wrinkling, and a few marks on front and back. A Very Good copy. Trade card for H. J. Speyerers in Rochester, Pennsylvania. The card promotes some of the items this dealer carried, namely, Fairbank's Lakeside Soap and Fairbank's Fine Family Soaps. Fairbank's Soaps originated with N. K. Fairbank Company, a business that specialized in food, soap, and animal products. The company was founded by Chicago businessman Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank (1829-1903). Among Fairbank's line of soaps was his famous "Fairy Soap." The text on back reads, "Fairbank's Fine Family Soaps; None Better or Purer Made, Try Them; For Sale by H. J. Speyerers, Dealer in Staple and Fancy Groceries, Rochester, PA." Trade cards were 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 owners and proprietors to patrons and customers as a way to promote their businesses. Prior to the use of street addresses, trade cards had maps so clients could locate the associated business. Many of these cards also incorporated elaborate designs, illustrations, and other decorative features. Trade cards became popular in the United States during the nineteenth century in the period after the Civil War. The late nineteenth century also saw the advent of trade card collecting as a hobby. While they are no longer in use, trade cards influenced the formation of trading cards and were the predecessors of modern-day business cards.
