American Button Collecting Uses Electricity Car Piano Rare Antique Article 1897
$ 9.76
Description
Antique Ephemera, Paper, Prints, Cigarette Cards, Books, and Comics 2 articles from a rare 1897 Victorian periodical the first article is entitled "The American Button Craze" by Garcon Very interesting old article discussing the American craze of button collecting with details on particular buttons and favours and several photos including - National Buttons Corbett Fitsimmons boxing buttons The "Yellow Kid" buttons Irish favours The Actress, Brownie and Battleship buttons Cuban Favour Lucky rabbits foot The second article is entitled "Odd Uses of Electricity" by Merriden Howard 7 pages discussing uses of electricty which are titled as "odd" in Victorian times but some of them taken for granted today including - Travelling Grand Stand Latest thing in telephones and electric cigar lighter Dictating by Telephone Loud speaking telephone Burglar alarm Field Telephone Bachelors breakfast Electric Omnibus Electric motor car Electric shaver, curling tongs, heater, ozoniser Electric piano Please note this listing is for genuine actual pages extracted from a scarce disbound Victorian periodical, there are no covers. Article may include the ending or beginning of non related other articles Whilst the images show the article in its still bound state, the article will be sent as loose pages. Some pages may be showing signs of foxing / browning due to the age of the paper If you are interested in more than one item I will always combine postage where this is possible so long as purchases are in one transaction. If you are forced by ebay to pay multiple postages for your purchases I will refund the overpayment I have indexed many antique periodicals with detail of, peoples names, places & subjects included. When I find duplicate issues in poor condition I list the articles on ebay. If you are searching for a particular family history related person, subject, place etc, please let me know and I will search my database for any relevant entries Thanks for taking the time to have a look at my item for sale. Please see my other items currently on ebay in my ebay shop - If you have any questions about any of my items please contact me. Why not add me as a favourite seller I regularly list interesting and collectable items. Thanks again for looking psn4.1p47
