1800s Clark's Mile-End Spool Cotton Advertisement Victorian Trade Cards
Condition: very good condition for age. Normal wear, slight foxing, small crease in center and top left corner.
"WINTER
Amid the snow's of winter drear,
The Robin-Red-Breast's note we hear.
It seems the gloomy day to cheer.
So as the patient sewers bend
O'er weary work they find a friend
That cheers their labor,-Clark's Mile-End."
"The proprietors of Clark's Mile End Spool Cotton propose to issue a series of twelve aquarelles from designs by the celebrated Parisian artist Hector Giacomelli, illustrative of our native song birds.
Preserve the cards as issues."
Measures 4.5" x 3"
Condition: very good condition for age. Normal wear, slight foxing, small crease in center and top left corner.
"WINTER
Amid the snow's of winter drear,
The Robin-Red-Breast's note we hear.
It seems the gloomy day to cheer.
So as the patient sewers bend
O'er weary work they find a friend
That cheers their labor,-Clark's Mile-End."
"The proprietors of Clark's Mile End Spool Cotton propose to issue a series of twelve aquarelles from designs by the celebrated Parisian artist Hector Giacomelli, illustrative of our native song birds.
Preserve the cards as issues."
Measures 4.5" x 3"