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Fleming Bros : Original Trade Card - "Fleming Bros., Pittsburgh, Pa."

Original trade card with a color illustration of two songbirds in a wintry landscape. Trade card features a unique bell shape. Gilt accents and decorative embossing to the card. No date, circa 1880s-1910s. 3" x 4 3/4." Trade card is very clean and intact except for slight surface wear and almost imperceptible staining limited to the back. A Near Fine copy. Trade card for Fleming Brothers, a drugstore in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and one of the products they carry, "Kidd's Cough Syrup." 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.. Ephemera. Book Condition: Collectible-Near Fine (Near Fine). Binding: No Binding

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