Trade Sign

Date: 
1880-1910
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
18 3/4 x 3 1/2 x 1/2 in.
Description: 
A yellow painted tin moulding or trim piece from a larger frame that held a still- life of fruit that advertised a soda fountain product "True Fruit". It has white floral and leaf designs in shaded white and a frame around the words " 'True Fruit'/ J. Hungerford Smith Co./ Rochester, N.Y.", now a division of Con-Agra Co. See 2002.1.2181 for the main and 2002.1.2211 for a complete item.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.2182
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1910
eMuseum Object ID: 
50040
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Trade Sign

Date: 
1880-1910
Medium: 
Metal, plastic, wood
Dimensions: 
33 x 21 x 1 1/4 in.
Description: 
This chomolithographic tin sign with a light blue plastic frame was an advertisment for "True Fruit" a soda fountain product from the J. Hungerford Smith Company of Rochester, N.Y. The scene is of a table set with a white table cloth, a large ornate silver platter of fruit decorated with leaves and a statuette of a standing woman and a kneeling child draped with garlands of flowers in the center. The background is blue and gold. See 2002.1.2182 for manufacturer labeled frame trim and 2002.1.2211 for a complete item. Formerly F-9.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.2181
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1910
eMuseum Object ID: 
50039
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Trade Sign

Date: 
1871
Medium: 
Wood, metal, glass
Dimensions: 
22 1/2 x 28 1/4 x 1 in.
Description: 
A mirrored sign printed on the front with a photolithograph of a classical marble statue of a woman with a sceptor holding a round shield protectively over the heads of a woman and naked child. The sign reads in white "The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States/ New-York" with a white border. In a black and brown wood frame with gold trim. Formerly F-8.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.2180
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1871
eMuseum Object ID: 
50038
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Trade sign

Date: 
1890-1930
Medium: 
Wood, metal, paper
Dimensions: 
58 x 40 1/4 x 1 1/2 in.
Description: 
A wood trade sign painted dark green with bullets, cartridges and gun shells mounted to its front in graduated sets. It is printed with a central drawing of a pair of hunters in the forest standing by a dead bear flanked by drawings of a mallard duck and a moose head. The sign reads in red with white borders "Winchester Repeating Arms Co./ Repeating Rifles/ Ammunition"; and in white around the sets of bullets "Winchester Repeating Rifles/ and Shotguns/ and Single-Shot Rifles./ Gun Wads of Every Description, Percussion Caps/ Grooved Bullets/ Metallic Ammunition/ Paper and Brass Shells/ Primers &c./ Patched Bullets/ Paper Shells-All Sizes/ Brass Shells-All Sizes". Formerly F-10.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.2179
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1930
eMuseum Object ID: 
50037
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Trade Sign

Date: 
1880-1910
Medium: 
Wood, glass, mother-of-pearl
Dimensions: 
65 x 33 x 1 1/2 in.
Description: 
Reverse painted on glass, this sign shows a train marked "Adams Express" with red and yellow cars and a green and black engine crossing a stone tressle over a river surrounded by rocks and trees. It reads, in black with gold borders "Men's, Boy's and Youth's", and in gold letters inset with a mother-of-pearl mosaic "Fashionable Clothing". The tressle is marked in black with an advertisment for patent medicine "G. Laird's Bloom of Youth" and the rocks advertise "Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient", according to the manufacturer, a "foaming, sparkling Seltzer" to which "Headaches, Constipation, Indigestion and Dyspepsia yield at once" (from patent medicine literature). Formerly F-2.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.2178
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1910
eMuseum Object ID: 
50035
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Pen wipe/ tobacco

Date: 
1910-1930
Medium: 
Cloth
Dimensions: 
5 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.
Description: 
A white cotton felt cloth pen wipe, printed with a central image of a baseball player marked "Morgan", surrounded by pennants marked "Wash.", and "A.L." for American League, with red borders decorated with green corner blocks resembling bases, with baseball items in each block including a ball, mitt, crossed bats and a catcher's mask. Part of a collectible series of baseball team felts given as a premium by cigar stores and manufacturers for blotting the ink from a nib pen.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.2835
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1930
eMuseum Object ID: 
50034
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Pen wipe/ tobacco

Date: 
1910-1930
Medium: 
Cloth
Dimensions: 
5 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.
Description: 
A white cotton felt cloth pen wipe, printed with a central image of a baseball player marked "McBride", surrounded by pennants marked "Wash.", and "A.L." for American League, with red borders decorated with green corner blocks resembling bases, with baseball items in each block including a ball, mitt, crossed bats and a catcher's mask. Part of a collectible series of baseball team felts given as a premium by cigar stores and manufacturers for blotting the ink from a nib pen.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.2836
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1930
eMuseum Object ID: 
50033
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Pen wipe/ tobacco

Date: 
1910-1930
Medium: 
Cloth
Dimensions: 
5 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.
Description: 
A white cotton felt cloth pen wipe, printed with a central image of a baseball player marked "Pratt", surrounded by pennants marked "St.Louis", and "A.L." for American League, with light red borders decorated with gray corner blocks resembling bases, with baseball items in each block including a ball, mitt, crossed bats and a catcher's mask. Part of a collectible series of baseball team felts given as a premium by cigar stores and manufacturers for blotting the ink from a nib pen.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.2834
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1930
eMuseum Object ID: 
50032
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Pen wipe/ tobacco

Date: 
1910-1930
Medium: 
Cloth
Dimensions: 
5 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.
Description: 
A white cotton felt cloth pen wipe, printed with a central image of a baseball player marked "Adams", surrounded by pennants marked "Pittsburgh" and "N.L." for National League, with gray borders decorated with purple corner blocks resembling bases, with baseball items in each block including a ball, mitt, crossed bats and a catcher's mask. Part of a collectible series of baseball team felts given as a premium by cigar stores and manufacturers for blotting the ink from a nib pen.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.2832
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1930
eMuseum Object ID: 
50031
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Pen wipe/ tobacco

Date: 
1910-1930
Medium: 
Cloth
Dimensions: 
5 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.
Description: 
A white cotton felt cloth pen wipe, printed with a central image of a baseball player marked "Pratt", surrounded by pennants marked "St.Louis", and "A.L." for American League, with purple borders decorated with gray corner blocks resembling bases, with baseball items in each block including a ball, mitt, crossed bats and a catcher's mask. Part of a collectible series of baseball team felts given as a premium by cigar stores and manufacturers for blotting the ink from a nib pen.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.2833
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1930
eMuseum Object ID: 
50030
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

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