Picked these up in Paris. They were already mounted on the page. I have quite a few others I’ve picked up elsewhere but yet to be framed. This is hanging by my bed. I look at it every night and morning!
Victorian Era Pipe Smoking Trade Cards
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I agree, let's see more when you get them framed. This is the kind of stuff your not going to see at your local Hobby Lobby. It's cool.
I purchased this set of 6 vintage Chocolat advertising cards from a shop in Antwerp, Belgium. The cards show the steps of chocolate from seed to final product. Card #1 is picking the cacao seeds on the plantation and card #6 is the chocolate being made into the final product. I had them framed and I enjoy looking at them everyday.
*note - I purchased online from the shop in Belgium. I've never been to Belgium...yet.
Looks great! A chocolate lover?
thanks guys. I’ve been meaning to post it and I had been discussing with @logs about the Pipe smoking trade cards I collect.
I wish they weren’t glued to the old scrapbook page because I’d love to see the back of a few of them. Like the guy on the bottom middle.. wtf ?
How intriguing. The use of a kid in the pipe context is interesting, just a whim of art, but imagine that today. Real historical items, and handsomely framed. Also the chocolate factory. As a kid, I had a cigar box full of promotional cards from the 1890s, lost in the churn of time and endless moves.
Maybe this thread will inspire me to get the rest of them framed. I’ve got the frames and matte... just not the motivation. ?
Well when you were a kid these things had just come out so I can imagine!
(Kidding ?)
A lot of them are kids with pipes. Apparently a very common advertising theme of the day.
People would lose their mind over children being in these ads. I found them charming nonetheless.
also apparently a common sight in daily life too. Letting your kid smoke their pipe was apparently what a good parent does, helps them with the focus to learn and stuff like that.
