About Us: America’s Scrapbook offers a selection of antique advertising, ephemera and collectible memorabilia, focused mainly 1870-1970. You can visit our retail location at Broadway Antique Market in Chicago (open Friday, Saturday and Sunday only 11 am – 6 pm during the pandemic), or follow us on Facebook or Instagram (search for America’s Scrapbook). On eBay, our seller name is kenbay, with auctions ending most Sunday evenings. The business was founded in 1970 as Ken Kapson Antiques; America’s Scrapbook LLC from 1991. The current owner, Alice Muncaster, is an author, collector, experienced antiques/collectibles dealer, and a member of the AAAA Board of Directors.

Great trade card for the Trick Pony Bank. Stirn & Lyons, NY imprint on back; near mint condition. 3-1/4" x 5-1/2".

Item #2. 1901 Quaker Oats Frolie Fortune Telling Calendar - American Cereal Co., Chicago -$65.00

Great graphics! Complete 12-page Quaker Oats 1901 calendar with cover, full color advertising throughout. From the American Cereal Company, Chicago, c. 1900. Original string. Slight paper loss cover only; two tiny edge bends on front cover. 5-3/4" square.

All 12 pages are chromolitho. 4 x 4-1/4" square. Slight bend on back corner bottom left. Some white shows on spine. Brownies -- Not sure if Palmer Cox Brownies or not on covers.

Original tin litho classic Grape-Nuts Sign in self frame; in storage for years. Very good condition but if you want other photos to examine closely, send an email to Americasscrapbook@gmail.com and I'll send them to you separately. 20" x 30".

Item #5. Pabst Malt Extract Die-Cut Bottle Topper - Newsboy Motif - $85.00 

Pabst Malt Extract Die Cut Bottle Topper. To be used by retailer displaying the product bottle. Newsboy holds EXTRA paper with Pabst ad. Great condition! About 6-1/2" x 6-1/4". Directions on back for how to "fasten to bottle and place on show case."

Nice larger calendar advertising Mrs. Winslow's Syrup. Minor damage in bottom right corner, scrapbook residue on back. About 8-1/2" x 10-1/2". Original grommet. (Not a repro; saw some repros online, this is from a collection of quality advertising.)

Pre-1906 Die-Cut trade card for QUIRYE tonic, a patent medicine that was likely put out of business once the Pure Food and Drug Act was enacted. The product claimed to be a positive cure and the back of the card says it "Destroys All Germs or Disease."  It claims to be a distillation of quinine created by Dr. Koch (Berlin), which the card states "is entirely tasteless." 3-1/2" x 2-1/4", slight bend, a little paper loss on back.

Rochester German Insurance Co., 1899 calendar, full pad, great condition. Nice colorful Victorian illustration. A little edge tear bottom right. Original grommet. Slight corner bends and top layer of paper missing bottom left corner. 6-1/2" x 8-1/2".

Harper Whiskey Metamorphic Trade Card, American Brewing Co. A pull-up that reveals gorgeous color lithography inside of scantily clad lady. "Pull off my Gown and See the Whiskey of Greatest Renown." Condition is fair to good (bends and edge wear), but imagry is excellent. Imprint for Rogers & Stefan, Hartford, Arkansas on back with ad for Harper Whiskey.

Centennial Brand Cloth Bolt Label. About 12" x 6" oval - two small holes from removing from scrapbook.

Anheuser Busch booklet: 12 pages; damaged back cover (some paper missing from being glued in a scrapbook). Otherwise, great condition, some finish cracking on spine. 3-1/2" x 6". Gorgeous full color litho illustrations show all kinds of people/professions who use this tonic!

About 13-1/2" x 21-1/2". Undated but same exact illustration used in a 1912 hardware trade pub ad. Originally folded.

Brown Chemical Co., Baltimore Bitters Calendar with Rotating Wheel. In excellent condition but the center metal grommet replaced with a brad, slight damage near it; light bend bottom right corner; left bottom corner damage, original grommet at top. Great color. Pug dog with Jester. 5-1/2" x 6".

Large Victorian Print, advertising premium from Pear's Soap. "Curiosity" by Eugene von Blaas (1843 – 1931), an Italian painter. Edge tear top and bottom, some paper missing left edge bottom. Pear's name at bottom right. 15-1/4" x 32".

Salesman's Sample Set of Four different designs. Each is a difrerent Victorian lady image. Fancy gold ink. At top back: "No. 2093 Imported Fan, 2 designs, sold assorted only". Smith Bros. Hardware, Bedford, Ind. 7" x 8-1/2" each.

From the Sunday comics: Andy Gump Mirror with Brush. About 3-1/2 in. diameter. Some discoloration on celluloid. Brush excellent condition.

Large pallet-shaped die-cut for George Goulet Champagnes. Gorgeous color; illustrated back (bottles, crest) has scrapbook page paper residue around the edge.

Great uncommon metamorphic trade card, dated 1894, American Brewing Co., St. Louis. Product is ABC Bohemian. 3-1/2" x 5-1/4" closed; 5-1/4" x 5-1/4" opened. Gorgeous colors. Please make an offer.

Maybelline Cosmetic Bottle and dropper intact, nice condition' one of the inner box flaps detached but included. Maybelline was named after the inventor's sister, who burned off her eyebrows in a cooking accident. Chicago. $35.

"The Bluebird is home again," calendar, imprint is Bachelder's Service Stations, Athon, Mass. 1939. Adelaide Hiebel was an artist and illustrator who worked for Gerlach Barklow Co. in Joliet, Illinois, manufacturer of art calendars. Calendar pad complete. 21" x 46" Couple of minor bends, small edge tear. Please make an offer.

Neat gadget for "trying on" different shoe and boot styles. Wheel turns to reveal various shoes on shapely leg; a bit risque for the time. About 4-1/2" square. Original grommet. 7 different shoes/stockings on wheel. Pingree & Smith, manufacturer, Detroit. Retailer imprint for G. B. Seigenthaler, Wooster, OH.

Unusual large sign; Approx. 9: x 16", not the trade card you usually see. St. Jacobs Oil was supposedly made by "German monks in the Black Forest"; after the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, they had to stop proclaiming the liniment compound for rheumatism cured it. Printed on an oilcloth-like surface, has tape repair. (Ask for photo of repairs.) Link to info on the product: https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/st-_jacobs_oil/.

Undated Large wall poster featuring vegetables and their seeds, Salzer Seed Co.,La Crosse, Wisc. Some edge wear/one tear and very light bends; bright colors, great veggy illustrations. Maybe a seed historian could help pinpoint the date of this piece. Would look great in a kitchen, general store set-up , or greenhouse! 38" x 25". Please make an offer.

Product Labels: Thin paper stock, so appears to be labels, not trade cards. See photo for size comparison to a ballpoint pen. Please make an offer;. (Sold separately or together.)

Vehicle Paint Labels: Thin paper stock, so appears to be labels, not trade cards. See photo for size comparison to a ballpoint pen. Please make an offer.  (Sold separately or together.)

Very rarely seen large trade card for railroad handcars. Geo. S. Sheffield & Co., Three Rivers, Mich. "Velocipede Hand Car" with great graphic motif, vignette. Printer's hatchmark cut marks in borders. Back is blank; has paper from scrapbook in small circle in each corner. An outstanding card. 5-3/4" x 6-1/2". Please make an offer.

Nice die cut heavy cardboard Victorian litho, near mint condition; 4-1/2" x 5-3/4". No dealer imprint but likely would have gone in the white tablecloth area. Back is blank.

Gorgeous color; Meyer & Sons, Chicago trade card, not often seen. Back is blank. How Victorian-era architects found those beautiful wood mantles for the houses they built. Factory was in Chicago's North Pier Terminal. 5-1/2" x 3-3/8".

Not that often seen version of Uncle Obadiah educating the kids about Dixon's Carburet of Iron Stove Polish. Research shows this product was introduced in 1827; card is dated 1887. 6-1/8" x 5-1/8". Reverse side was two-panels, one text in dialect, the other shows product package and ad copy. Joseph Dixon Crucible Co., Jersey City, N.J. also produced the Ticonderoga graphite Pencils we've all used.

Kind of an unusual calendar design, slide to pull up one of two different number arrangement pages, spin the wheel to change the month.   J. Hungerford Smith Co., manufacturer, Rochester NY. Printed: W. F. Reichenbach, Rochester. Stains, horiz. There's a bend under "Sun" on both sides of calendar. Discoloration at top, see photo. 3-5/8" x 7". $28

Private Wire Early Telephone Salesman's Sample Cigar Box Label. Witsch & Schmitt - No. 1109. Please make an offer.

Success Flour Advertising Sign - Printer's Proof. From printer archive for Coshocton, Ohio tin litho printing co.; reverse printing on paper( part of plate making process). From a very quality collection, bought from a printing company employee's estate. In storage for years. 16" x 22". Please make an offer.

Very colorful International Stock Food Company Letterhead. Previous folds, text is not complete; must have had a continuation page when originally sent to the customer in 1904. Great color and images. 8-1/2" x 11".

Unused Vaudeville act stationery used to pitch the "Cowgirl and the Bear" act to theaters. The Martines were a husband and wife performing team, husband used to dress up as a bear. 8-1/2" x 11". Nice colors. Very light bend; one tiny corner bend.

Heavy die-cut cardboard in pallet design, 7-1/2" x 10-1/2". Humorous wedding scenes; first the wedding, then the (surprise) baby chick is displayed…. Ad on back of one for H.C.F. Koch & Son, New York City.

Railroad Mills Snuff Tobacco Booklet...16 pages, self cover. Interior beautiful illustrations are African Americans, story of young courtship through old age couple, with the product being an integral part of the story. Brilliant colors. Cut out damage on front cover. Stitched binding, string broken but quite unusual. 3-3/8{" x 6" (closed).

Beautiful large Victorian die-cut SIGN for Louisiana Bar Room, New Orleans. Excellent condition. 16" x 21-1/2". Please make an offer.

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