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$50

General Card Co. Salesman’s Sample. Chicago, ca. 1941. This is a lovely example of a salesman’s sample kit that may have been advertised in Boys’ Life and other youth magazines. The boys would then take these samples and sell door to door in their neighborhood. Packets contain samples, price lists (decks were as low as twenty-three cents), newsletters, order forms and more. Few items missing but mostly complete. Exc.


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Potter & Potter

Date:
2015-06-28

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United States Playing Card Co. Salesman’s Sample Foldout of Congress Playing Cards With Gold Edges. Circa 1904. Seventy-four different backs mounted on an accordion style Read more…


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United States Playing Card Co. Salesman Sample Foldout of Bicycle Playing Cards. Circa 1905. Seventy-seven different Bicycle backs including, bicycles, vintage autos, motor-bikes and motorcycles. Read more…


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Atlantic Playing Card Co. Salesman Sample Booklet. New York, ca. 1936. Company specialized in advertising cards and calendar cards. Eight sample cards including one for Read more…


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Potter & Potter

Date:
2014-05-31


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United States Playing Card Co. Salesman Sample Foldout of Bicycle Playing Cards. Ca. 1905. 30 different Bicycle backs, some very rare, mounted on this accordion Read more…


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Date:
2014-05-31


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$1,955

Salesman's Sample Mower, possibly by Adriance, Platt, and Co., with mahogany frame and yoke, brass and iron geared blade mechanism, and brass wheels, lg. 12 Read more…


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Skinner

Date:
2001-03-31


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[Hoyle] Large grouping of Official Rules of Card Games and Hoyle Up-To-Date, 1898 – 1955. Cincinnati: U.S. Playing Card Co. Thirty-two copies running irregularly, and Read more…


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Potter & Potter

Date:
2014-05-31


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$40

Great Mogul Playing Cards, Lady Brand No. 2002. Leonard Bierman, Turnhout, Belgium. ca. 1900. 52 + J + Extra Card + OB3. The deck is Read more…


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Potter & Potter

Date:
2013-05-18


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$98

Four Louis Wagner & Co. cigar box sample labels, ca. 1900, to include Imperial General , Daisy Brown , Amorosa , and Read more…


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Pook & Pook

Date:
2015-12-09


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$1,900

'OUR WILD INDIANS' SALESMAN'S SAMPLE, 1882, SIGNED BY PRES. ARTHUR, CABINET MEMBERS, & DIGNITARIES:Including 1 original salesman's sample, or "dummy", book for Col. Richard I. Read more…


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Dumouchelle Art Galleries

Date:
2010-12-11


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$700

TIFFANY OAK BOX AND SAMPLE OF FIRST TRANS ATLANTIC CABLE, 19 TH C., L 4":having copy of letter stating pieces of the excess cable were Read more…


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Date:
2006-01-13