Details
Contributor Holden Bros., former owner.
Title The Moser & Lyon Co., manufacturing stationers, 216 S. Clinton St., Syracuse, N.Y. [graphic] : Showing how the reversible roll paper cutters can be placed under a counter or shelf. Read circular inside.
Publisher [Syracuse, N.Y.?]
Publisher N.Y. Syracuse. 1893
Date [ca. 1893]
Physical Description 1 print: relief; 9 x 15 cm. (3.5 x 6 in.)
Description Pictorial envelope containing vignettes of paper cutters and advertising text on the recto and verso. Vignette on recto shows a reversible roll paper cutter under a "counter." A hand tears off a piece of paper from a large roll with the cutter blade. Vignettes on verso show "Roll Desk Tablet, the most convenient article of its kind ever manufactured"; "6 and 12 Inch no. 1 Reversible Cutter in Pyramid"; and "the Reversible with name on face of blade. Any name can be placed thereon." Each cutter contains a large roll of paper. Moser & Lyon entered the stationery trade in 1873 and consolidated into the stock corporation Moser & Lyon Co. in 1892.
Notes Title from printed return address.
Addressed in manuscript to: Holden Bros., Turin, N.Y.
Date inferred from ink-stamp postmark: Syracuse, N.Y. 1893.
Contains cancelled two-cent stamp printed in red and depicting a profile portrait of George Washington.
Printed on verso: Write Us For Prices. Read the Circular which is Inside this Envelope.
Vignettes printed in red ink on verso.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Subject Moser & Lyon Co.
Stationery trade -- New York -- Syracuse.
Paper-cutting machines.
Genre Pictorial envelopes -- 1890-1900.
Relief prints -- Color -- 1890-1900.
Relief prints -- 1890-1900.
Provenance Holden Bros., former owner.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.85]
Accession number P.2011.10.85