Woolson Spice Co (17 results)

No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Original trade card with a color illustration of flowers growing on a wall. No date, circa 1890s-1910s. 4 1/2" x 3." Trade card is very clean and intact except for slightly bumped corners, slight edge wear, and age toning. A Very Good copy. Trade card for the Woolson Spice Company in Toledo, Ohio that promotes its Lion Coffee brand. Text on back: "If you want a picture card like this buy a package of Lion Coffee. It is composed of a successful combination of Mocha, Java and Rio, And is roasted with the greatest care, but is not ground. Is never sold in bulk. Beautiful picture in every package. Lion Is The King of Coffees. Manufactured by Woolson Spice Co., - - Toledo, Ohio." Woolson Spice Co. was founded by Alvin and William Woolson in 1882. Lion Coffee actually originated in 1864 with a separate Toledo company, C. C. Warren & Company. In 1882, Woolson Spice Co. acquired the Lion Coffee brand. The company remained in business until 1920. However, the story of Woolson Spice Co. continued when Delano West Ltd. of Hawai'i acquired the company's assets, including the Lion Coffee brand, in 1979. Lion Coffee is still sold to this day. 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.

No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Original trade card with a color illustration of a white dove and sky pictured in an oval frame surrounded by flowers. Parts of the illustration are done in light relief. No date, circa 1890s-1910s. 6" x 4 1/2." The printer's name, "Bufford," is printed on front and may refer to the printing and publishing establishment of John Henry Bufford (1810-1870). Trade card is very clean and intact except for a few faint marks on front near the edges and a few small bits of paper stuck to the back. A Very Good copy. Trade card for the Woolson Spice Company. Printed on the occasion of Easter. The company was founded by Alvin and William Woolson in 1882. Its signature Lion Coffee originated in 1864 with a separate Toledo company, C. C. Warren & Company. In 1882, Woolson Spice Co. acquired the Lion Coffee brand. The company remained in business until 1920. However, the story of Woolson Spice Co. continued when Delano West Ltd. of Hawai'i acquired the company's assets, including the Lion Coffee brand, in 1979. Lion Coffee is still sold to this day. Trade cards are 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.

No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Original trade card with a color illustration of a chick hatching out of an egg with a rabbit watching it nearby. Flowers surround the scene. Parts of the illustration are done in light relief. No date, circa 1890s-1910s. 6" x 4 1/2." The printer's name, "Bufford," is printed on front and may refer to the printing and publishing establishment of John Henry Bufford (1810-1870). Trade card is very clean and intact except for a few faint marks on front near the edges and a few small bits of paper stuck to the back. A Very Good copy. Trade card for the Woolson Spice Company. Printed on the occasion of Easter. The company was founded by Alvin and William Woolson in 1882. Its signature Lion Coffee originated in 1864 with a separate Toledo company, C. C. Warren & Company. In 1882, Woolson Spice Co. acquired the Lion Coffee brand. The company remained in business until 1920. However, the story of Woolson Spice Co. continued when Delano West Ltd. of Hawai'i acquired the company's assets, including the Lion Coffee brand, in 1979. Lion Coffee is still sold to this day. Trade cards are 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.

No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Original trade card with a color illustration of a blue dove and sky pictured within an oval frame surrounded by flowers. No date, circa 1890s-1910s. 6" x 4 1/2." The printer's name, "Bufford," is printed on front and may refer to the printing and publishing establishment of John Henry Bufford (1810-1870). Trade card is very clean and intact except for a few faint marks near the edges and a few microscopic surface chips in the margins on front. A Very Good copy. Trade card for the Woolson Spice Company. Printed on the occasion of Easter. The company was founded by Alvin and William Woolson in 1882. Its signature Lion Coffee originated in 1864 with a separate Toledo company, C. C. Warren & Company. In 1882, Woolson Spice Co. acquired the Lion Coffee brand. The company remained in business until 1920. However, the story of Woolson Spice Co. continued when Delano West Ltd. of Hawai'i acquired the company's assets, including the Lion Coffee brand, in 1979. Lion Coffee is still sold to this day. Trade cards are 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.

No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Good. Original trade card with a color illustration of a scenic ocean view of waves crashing against rocks during sunset. No date, circa 1890s-1910s. 6 1/4" x 4 1/2." The printer's name, "Bufford," is printed on front and may refer to the printing and publishing establishment of John Henry Bufford (1810-1870). Trade card is very clean and intact overall except for a few small marks on back and small bits of paper stuck to the front on the illustration. A Good copy. Trade card for the Woolson Spice Company in Toledo, Ohio that promotes its Lion Coffee brand. Full text and title on back: "If you want a picture card like this buy a package of Lion Coffee. It is composed of a successful combination of Mocha, Java and Rio, And is roasted with the greatest care, but is not ground. Is never sold in bulk. Beautiful picture in every package. Lion Is The King of Coffees. Manufactured by Woolson Spice Co.,Toledo, Ohio." The Woolson Spice Company was founded by Alvin and William Woolson in 1882. Lion Coffee actually originated in 1864 with a separate Toledo company, C. C. Warren & Company. In 1882, Woolson Spice Co. acquired the Lion Coffee brand. The company remained in business until 1920. However, the story of Woolson Spice Co. continued when Delano West Ltd. of Hawai'i acquired the company's assets, including the Lion Coffee brand, in 1979. Lion Coffee is still sold to this day. Trade cards are 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.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

12mo.; stiff cards bound by ribbon in top die-cut hole, softcover; 22 pages; color illustrations; from the Advertising Dept. of Woolson Spice Co., Toledo, Ohio; about half of the cards are disbound because of a tear in the hole in the top else very good.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1893 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 42 Woolson spice co., Toledo, O. [from old catalog].

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

[Toledo, Ohio and Kansas City, Missouri, c. 1890s?]. Small Broadside. 9½ x 7 inches. Folds and faint creasing; very good. A broadside with two rebus puzzles for Lion Coffee, a popular coffee brand made by the Woolson Spice Company of Toledo, Ohio, and Kansas City, Missouri. If consumers solved both rebuses, and sent in a picture of the Lion Head logotype "cut from Lion Coffee Wrapper," they received a book by American humorist Edgar Wilson Nye, popularly known as "Bill Nye.".

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Cover-title, 8 leaves, color plates 16 x 22 cm. Color plates of the famous "White Squadron" of U.S. naval vessels which were steam ships coordinated in a squadron. This collection of color plates was issued to commemorate the squadron's 1891 cruise of the Great Lakes. Some copies of the booklet contain 10 plates, this one has 8.

[TWAIN, MARK] [Clemens, S. L.] Woolson Spice Co.[makers of Lion Coffee] SHADOW PICTURE OF MARKTWAIN. Toledo, Ohio: Woolson Spice Co., 1895.Advertising trade card consisting of a floraldecorated card with instructions and pattern onback. When cut out, it creates a silhouette ofMark Twain. This card is uncut and in finecondition; these cards are often found cut out orremoved from Victorian scrapbooks, and encrustedwith glue residue. This series of shadow cardsissued by Lion Coffee included at least twentyfamous people of the nineteenth century includingBismarck, the Prince of Wales, Buffalo Bill,Napoleon, General Grant, Mrs. Grover Cleveland,Mrs. James A. Garfield, H. B. Stowe, Longfellow,Bryant, and Martha Washington. Copyrighted 1895,with a premium offer described that expired onJanuary 1, 1896. This well-known card, one of themore unusual trade cards to feature Twain duringhis lifetime, is pictured in Welland's THE LIFEAND TIMES OF MARK TWAIN, p. 143.

Bright chromolithographic stiff wrappers. Very good condition, light wear at edges and corners. 32 pp. This is a combination songster with Civil War-related songs and promotional piece for Woolson Spice Co., the maker of Lion Coffee. There is also considerable text relating to the Civil War with woodcut portraits of ten Union generals. There are also views of the Woolson factory in Toledo and Kansas City.