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No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Original trade card with a color illustration of a two-faced woman with the caption, "Sweet Sixteen and Sixty." Gilt background and accents on illustration. No date, circa 1870s. 2 3/4" x 4 1/4." Text on front: "Registered by Jus. Koehler, N.Y.; W. G. Dunseath, Jeweler, 150 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA. My Specialty, Hand adjusted Watches." Trade card is very clean and intact overall. There is a hole in the top-center which affects the illustration but it may be original. A few light stains on front and back. A Very Good copy. Trade card for W. G. Dunseath, a jeweler and watchmaker at 150 Fifth Avenue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. William G. Dunseath (c. 1841-?) was in the jewelry and watchmaking business from circa 1862-1898. According to online resources, he may have learned the trade from his father. William's store changed locations several times during his career, but he remained in Pittsburgh. 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.
