48 pages, 12x15" x 1½" thick, with approximately 800 trade cards plus die cut scrap pasted in throughout.
Large California album with cards from San Francisco and Healdsburg, including, Florida Water, set of Steele & Price, Hartshorn Shades, Riegers San Francisco Lemonade, a set of 8 comic baseball image cards, Tetlow extract die cuts, Uncle Sam’s Harness Oil, Gold Coin Natl. Walking Match Tobacco, 3 California Silk Co cards printed by Bosqui, Celluloid Collars, Marburg Tobacco, a series of 36 stock cards many with black ethnic stereotypical images from a Healdsburg store, Mustang Linament, the Venables Tobacco card with Indians, Rough On Rats, State Line Ships, Jackson’s Chewing Tobbaco, Main & Winchester saddlery, a Bicycle Stevensgraph, some GAR reunion announcements, Buckeye Pumps, and many sets of stock cards from local retail establishments. Laid in, is an elaborately die cut 4 panel stand up calendar for 1896, beautifully chromolithographed, showing 4 well dressed Victorian ladies which opens to approximately 12x18", in fine condition. The cards are uniformly in very good condition, mostly untrimmed with full borders.
Condition:
The album is together, with some pages, the spine strip and the front cover loose. A nice album tightly filled with cards and ephemera. Should be inspected, or call for a more detailed description.