2 Antique Victorian Trade Card for J&P Coats Thread - Lady & Gent Fishing new years Open the cover to reveal

Open the cover to reveal a Christmas poem by Chilton Bingham

Dating to the early 1920s this Art Deco era tin box would have been filled with candy and distributed during the Christmas season

turn it over and you will an engraved panel with the initial B

time to let go of a few things

2 Antique Victorian Trade Card for J&P Coats Thread - Lady & Gent Fishing new years Open the cover to revealC. 1880 or so, here's a pair of Victorian era trade cards one blank with a cropped top edge; the other, full sides, for J&P Coats Threads sold at the Charles F. Sprague Dry Goods emporium. The image to both cards is the same, that of a lady sitting on a blanket with a sewing basket beside her (filled with thread, of course) and her gentleman friend just landing a trout in the stream. An 1880 calendar is on the backs of each. Both cards are very nice