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No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Original trade card with a black-and-white illustration showing the apparent torture patients undergo when visiting the dentist. An exam room is shown in disarray as a dentist comically tries to wrench something out of his patient's mouth. The dentist says, "Don't move. Somethings got to come out this time." No date, circa 1880s-1910s. 2 3/4" x 4 1/2." Trade card is very clean and intact except for age toning, a few light marks on front and back, and holograph corrections in black ink that have crossed out Frank J. Miller's name, "Miller" in "Sippel & Miller," and the "s" in "Merchant Tailors" to likely reflect a change in ownership in which Sippel is the sole proprietor. A Very Good copy. Trade card for Sippel & Miller, tailors in Buffalo, New York. The proprietors are listed as John G. Sippel and Frank J. Miller. Trade cards are antique business cards that first became popular during the late seventeenth century in Paris and Lyon, France and London, England. Trade cards were often given by business owners and proprietors to patrons and customers as a way to promote their businesses. Prior to the use of street addresses, trade cards had maps so clients could locate the associated business. Many of these cards also incorporated elaborate designs, illustrations, and other decorative features. Trade cards became popular in the United States during the nineteenth century in the period after the Civil War. The late nineteenth century also saw the advent of trade card collecting as a hobby. While they are no longer in use, trade cards influenced the formation of trading cards and were the predecessors of modern-day business cards.
