Victorian Trade Card - J. & P. Coats Thread - Children on Seesaw playing David Earhart and family

David Earhart and family

Smith's Millinery and Fancy Goods of Mantua Station

There's one tiny ink spot over the letter "e" in "Lowell" on the front of the card

4 December

Victorian Trade Card - J. & P. Coats Thread - Children on Seesaw playing David Earhart and familyThis is an original Victorian trade card for J. & P. Coats thread. It shows several children playing on a seesaw made of a board and an enormous spool of Coats' Best Six Cord thread. The back indicates it is compliments of J. & P. Coats' and lists the "New Colors of the Season": Mexican Blue Cardinal Dark Antique Plum Ecru Olive Bronze Dark Pheasant Mastic Dark Chestnut Myrtle Silver Gray Venetian Bronze Steel Gray Copper Bronze It measures 4 x 2 3 4