Trade card: man smoking pipe, "Try This!" banner – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with Trade card: man smoking pipe, "Try This!" banner, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Trade card: man smoking pipe, "Try This!" banner
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A small printed trade card shows a man with a pipe beneath a banner reading "Try This!", a direct invitation that suggests the card was meant to sell a smoking product. Merchants and manufacturers handed out cards like this in the late 1800s, when color printing had become cheap enough to make them a common form of advertising. Many were pasted into scrapbooks or albums, which helps explain why so many have survived. The record does not name the maker or the product, so the figure is best read as a general type of the period's leisurely, well-dressed gentleman rather than a portrait of a specific person.
| Original scan | 946 × 618 px |
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| Reference | MEN59 |
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