Abstract

A colorful scene of the finish line, approached by the hare while the tortoise is beyond it. Nothing on the reverse. The front promises: "Donnell's healing salve cures cuts, sores, boils, burns, frosted ears and feet. Cures bruises, burns, boils, sores, scalds, ulcers, carbuncles, chilblains, bites of insects, cuts and wounds." What does it not do?

Abstract This is one of the most delightful sets I have had the pleasure of pursuing. There is a quirky transformation of each of the traditional fables represented here—all for canned meat! The cards generally show a combination of what looks like a blue and sepia wash. Each card takes the opportunity to draw the obvious moral. The versos of the cards are blank or include one of the following: advertisements for wholesale grocers like Head and Winston in Utica or Charles Hewitt in Des Moine; or...

Abstract

One of the loveliest trade cards I have. Sickle-like arcs divide the colored image into three sections moving from the farmer and his son in the upper right to the lark mother and her chicks in the center to the harvested sheaves in the lower left. Sauer's 32 flavors are "Guaranteed under Food and Drug Act, June 30, 1906."

Abstract CP. The design is taken from that used on the Coats (1885?) card in the apparent series of eight. In fact, it may be the same design, cropped to a narrower card (3"x4") and less well printed. There is a text on the reverse. On the front, Wheeler & Wilson have a nice logo of two red W's on a blue circle.CP. The design is exactly the same as in the Cheadle and Hanson cards (1900?, above), but both card and image are scaled down--from 3"x4" to 2½"x3½". The image is also more...