NOTE: Advertising items are to be found throughout this web site. See especially: agricultural equipment and poultry keeping packets, bags & labels tobacco & snuff miscellaneous page and film and theatre programmes.

TRADE HAND BILL - Umbrellas &c. Mid Victorian. 5½" x 3½" on paper. A. Jolley, Umbrella, Box and Portmanteau Manufacturer, 192 Buckingham Palace Road. Also, Undertaker and Funeral Furnisher. By Appointment to Her Majesty.
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£5.00
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HANDBILL INVITING PURCHASE OF SHARES FOR CANADIAN OIL PROJECT 1913. Issued by The Canadian Industrial Development Co. Albany Buildings, 47 Victoria Street, London SW. 9¼" x 6" closed.
Four pages brown printing on white coated paper with four half-tone photographic illustrations depicting 36" pipe sinking prospecting steamers on the Athabasca river. Subject: Nakamun. Containing share prices and application form. Condition: mint.
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£5.00
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HANDBILL INVITING PURCHASE OF SHARES FOR CANADIAN OIL PROJECT 1913. Issued by The Canadian Industrial Development Co. Albany Buildings, 47 Victoria Street, London SW. 9¼" x 6" closed.
Four pages blue printing on white coated paper with four half-tone photographic illustrations depicting an oil gusher, 36" pipe sinking at Nakamun prospecting steamers on the Athabasca river and an oil derrick at Nakamun. Subject: Nakamun oilfield. Containing share prices and application form. Condition: mint.
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£5.00
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CARRIER CYCLE Advertising Leaflet. Circa: 1910. Two fold landscape orientation plus insert. Size closed: 6" x 4½" size opened: 13½" x 6". Green printing on cream paper. Featuring half-tone vignettes of five sign-written carrier bicycles, specifications and prices from The Battery Cycle Works, Prince Rock, Plymouth, Devon, England. Condition: Mint
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£8.00
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LAWN MOWING MACHINES CATALOGUE 1897. Samuelson's in green and gilt 5¼" x 3¼" closed in landscape orientation. Wire stapled fold. 12pp illustrating 5 push models. Retailer in Stony Stratford, England. Excellent, strongly printed illustrations. Condition: mint.
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£8.00
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SALES BROCHURE PAILLARD'S ECHOPHONES 1902-1903. Paillard's Echopones or, Talking Machines. Eight pages and cover 8½" x 5½". Seven half-tone vignettes of cylinder and horn machines, parts and fittings price lists. Excellent condition. Rare item.
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£20.00 - postage paid.
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HISTORY OF THE ROYAL SAXON PORCELAIN FACTORY
Nr DRESDEN - MEISSEN. USA interest. Produced for the Boston Exhibition of 1890s. A history of the factory, its principals, artists and marks. 4¼" x 6¼" 20 pp plus cover. Black and blue on white paper, stitched.
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£15.00
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SINGER SEWING MACHINE - VIBRATING SHUTTLE MODEL, INSTRUCTION BOOK 1892. 36 pp including cover. 8½" x 5½" three wire stitches, heavily foxed throughout. Front cover illustrates treadle model, rear cover illustrates factories in USA and Scotland. Twenty-seven pages of illustrations.
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£10.00
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ELECTROLUX Model 48 User Instructions 1958. Fold out sheet. Electrolux Ltd. Luton, England. Dated in biro by some idiot. Condition: fair to good.
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£5.00
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FIRE SERVICE DRILL BOOK. Issued by the Home Office (Fire Department). Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1968 16mo, 297 pp illustrated. Fair to good.
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£5.00

THE CONTROL OF FOXHOUNDS IN THE FIELD - INDIA 1933. Published by The Masters of Foxhounds Association of India. 17 pp 5½" x 8¾" paper cover. Condition Fair.
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£5.00

PINK'S MARMALADE, JAMS & JELLIES & POTTED BLOATERS 1880. Double-sided advertisement page 9¼" x 6". Two items both illustrated on face and reverse with industrial/social informative engravings. Both items as a pair.
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£6.00
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SEWING NEEDLES. Folding card packet of 68 stainless Gold Eye needles (usable) made in Japan for the North American Market. 1930s. Approximate size of closed decorative/illustrated card: 6½"" x 3¾".
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£18.00
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DEMING WATER SYSTEMS CATALOG. c1930s/40s U.S. Shallow and deep well water pumping equipment. Photo vignette illustrations and specifications on each page. 8½" x 11" x 64 pp. One quarter of pages 3/4 is missing.
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£5.00
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DAYTON PUMPS WATER SYSTEMS CATALOG. c1922 U.S. Shallow and deep well water pumping equipment. Photo vignette illustrations and specifications on each page. 8" x 11" x 27 pp.
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£5.00
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PARKER 51 PEN - Magazine Page Advertisement. U.S. 6½" x 10" full colour. Thought 1951. ref: advertising 47
£5.00
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EVERSHARP MECHANICAL PENCIL - Magazine Page Advertisement. U.S. 1923. Black and white. 6¾" x 10" ref: advertising 48
£5.00
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ANHEUSER-BUSCH BREWERY Advertisement. Brewers of Budweiser. Photolithograph printed in black and white rom an original 1916 copper plate pull. 11" x 8½". Illustrating the St. Louis brewery premises over several acres.
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£5.00
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MECCANO TOYS CATALOGUE. March 1951. Opening from 5¼" x 9" to 8 pp printed in blue on art. Listed: Meccano complete and accessory outfits, Meccano parts, Hornby Trains, Hornby-Dublo Trains and Dinky Toys. All pages profusely illustrated.
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£18.00
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U.S. Chromo Trade Cards 1880s/90s