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Original Trade Card - "Pittsburgh Iron and Wire Works; Taylor & Dean, Manufacturers of Ornamental Iron and Wire Work; 201 to 205 Market Street, Pittsburgh, PA."
Published by Koerner & Hayes, Buffalo, NY?, 1898
No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Original trade card with a color illustration of a wintry scene in which two mischievous-looking boys prepare to throw snowballs at a girl holding a parasol. No date, circa 1880s-1910s. 3" x 5." Trade card is very clean and intact except for some small smudges on front and back and age toning. A Very Good copy. Trade card for Taylor & Dean, a subsidiary of Pittsburgh Iron and Wire Works. The following are just some of their products listed on back: "Fencing, Cresting, Iron Stairs; Iron Beds, Stable Fittings; Iron Shutters, Cellar Doors; Elevator Enclosures, Nursery Fenders; Automatic Elevator Gates." 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.
