Antique Advertising Formats
Identify trade cards, tins, signs, labels, packaging, trays, displays, calendars, catalogs, premiums, and other early commercial formats.
Victorian Trade Cards
Chromolithographed cards, local merchant overprints, stock images, die cuts, albums, sets, and backs.
Open guide →Advertising Tins
Food, tobacco, medicine, candy, spice, tea, coffee, talc, polish, and household tins with period construction.
Open guide →Tin Lithographed Signs
Flat, embossed, flange, hanging, dealer, and store signs printed on sheet metal.
Open guide →Porcelain Enamel Signs
Heavy enamel signs for fuel, tobacco, food, farm, railroad, telephone, and local businesses.
Open guide →Wood Trade Signs
Carved, painted, shaped, hanging, occupational, folk-art, and storefront signs.
Open guide →Advertising Trays
Lithographed tin serving trays, tip trays, brewery trays, soda trays, and dealer pieces.
Open guide →Tip Trays
Small metal or composition trays used in bars, hotels, restaurants, drugstores, and retail counters.
Open guide →Store Bins and Cabinets
Countertop tins, tea bins, spool cabinets, seed drawers, tobacco dispensers, and branded retail fixtures.
Open guide →Counter Displays
Easel backs, die cuts, cardboard figures, product cards, sample boards, and early point-of-sale pieces.
Open guide →Labels and Wrappers
Bottle, cigar, crate, box, medicine, fruit, food, textile, and shipping labels, loose or attached.
Open guide →Boxes and Packaging
Cartons, packets, wooden crates, paper boxes, sleeves, bags, and complete branded containers.
Open guide →Advertising Calendars
Complete calendars, calendar tops, local merchant issues, illustrated pads, and mechanical calendars.
Open guide →Posters and Broadsides
Lithographed posters, letterpress broadsides, window bills, product notices, and event advertising.
Open guide →Billheads and Letterheads
Illustrated invoices, receipts, envelopes, statements, order forms, and business stationery.
Open guide →Catalogs and Price Lists
Wholesale, industrial, farm, retail, mail-order, patent medicine, hardware, and manufacturer catalogs.
Open guide →Almanacs and Booklets
Patent medicine almanacs, recipe books, farm guides, premiums, advice books, and product literature.
Open guide →Pocket Mirrors
Celluloid and metal-backed mirrors for medicines, beauty products, merchants, insurance, and political campaigns.
Open guide →Thermometers and Clocks
Store thermometers, wall clocks, regulators, novelty clocks, and branded instruments.
Open guide →Fans, Rulers, and Blotters
Useful paper and wood premiums from banks, funeral homes, druggists, seed dealers, and merchants.
Open guide →Salesman Samples
Miniature packages, sample tins, sample books, demonstration pieces, and traveling sales kits.
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