Details
Contributor J.H. Bufford & Co., printer.
Title Collis & Lees, dealers in card novelties, 162 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia. [graphic] : New designs in business cards.
Publisher Boston : Bufford
Publisher MASS. Boston. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph tinted with two stones ; 7 x 11.5 cm. (2.75 x 4.75 in.)
Description Illustrated comic stock trade card with the caption, "Tables turned," depicting two fishermen, one in mid-air holding a large fish to his chest, as his fellow fisherman reels them both in.
Notes Copyrighted by Bufford, Boston.
Advertising text printed on verso: To printers. The series of advertising cards of which this is a sample comprises ten different sets, each containing 6 designs, or 60 in all. They are comic and sentimental in character, finely drawn and beautifully executed, and are the cheapest and most attractive for the price now in the market. The series comprise riding scenes, dog cards, steamboat cards, farm scenes, plantation scenes, gunning scenes, fishing mishaps, yachting scenes, winter on ice, sleighing sports. They are put up in packages of 500, and can be furnished so that in 1000 lots there will be 12 designs; in 1500 lots, 18 designs; in 2000 lots, 24 designs; in 2500 lots, 30 designs; in 3000 lots, 36 designs; in 3500 lots, 42 designs; and so on till the sixty designs are supplied. Price per 1000, $2.75. Discount to printers only, 10 per cent. We have constantly in stock a large assortment of comic and floral cards for advertising.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Gift of Alan Smith.
Subject Collis & Lees.
Printing industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Stationery trade -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fishermen.
Fishing.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1870-1880.
Humorous pictures -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Collis [P.9387.3]
Accession number P.9387.3