Lady Jane

Business card for the "Lady Jane" hair salon of Baltimore, Maryland.

Found in (what else?) "Persuasion" by Jane Austen. Published by Dent/Readers Union, no date, circa 1950.

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Special Agent

Business card of S.C. Faulkner, special agent for the Travelers' Accident Insurance Company.

Found in "Irish Fairy and Folk Tales" edited by W.B. Yeats. Published by the Modern Library, no date listed.

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All In The Family

I was sorting though a box of antique and collectible price guides, and I came across this old business card. It was my grandfather's card - he was an epic collector of just about everything.

The book is "Old Mechanical Banks" by Ina Hayward Bellows. Published by Lighter Publishing, 1940.

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Jerusalem

Business card.

Found in "Poems and Prose: 1949-1977" by Harold Pinter. Published by Grove Press, 1978.

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Allen's

Advertisement card for Allen's Bookstore of Trumansburg, NY.

Found in "Sir Gawain and The Green Knight" translated by Theodore Howard Banks. Published by F.S. Crofts, 1929.

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Rising

Business card for Eagle Marone Photography, 45 W. 52nd St, New York.

Written on front:

Phil Pegler
MU 8-42-40

On reverse:

SA 2 3700
Mr. Sahlins

Hi Hon -
NY Dress Inst,
1450 Broadway

Found in "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway. Published by The Modern Library.

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Narc

Business card:

William G. Clark
Narcotics Investigator

Narcotic Control Bureau
Department of Health
State of New York

Found in "Firearms: Pleasures and Treasures" by Howard Ricketts. Published by Putnam, 1962.

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The Ties That Bind

Business card:

A. Riedinger
Sign & Decorative Painter

131 Mt. Vernon Ave
Mt. Vernon NY

Found in "Let's Bind a Book" by Guy A. Pratt. Published by Bruce, 1944.


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Never Had It, Never Will

My dad bought this little novelty item for me recently:



Pretty cool looking book, right?
Or is it?


That's Fonzie cool.

Of course, there was a forgotten bookmark inside:


It's a business card:

SEVEN-UP BOTTLING COMPANY

JOSEPH A. CHAMBERS

TROY NY

Phone Troy 7

Found in a book that's really a lighter.
Thanks, Dad.


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Just A Little Off The Top

Business card:

Curly's Barber Shop
30 Sunset Avenue
Sidney NY

Walk In Any TIme
Or Call 563-1358
-L.A. Welcher

Written at bottom:

I miss the Boys

Found in "The Virtue of Selfishness" by Ayn Rand. Published by Signet, 1964.

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Wayside Park

Business card.

Located on Highways 18 - 79 - 87
WAYSIDE PARK
Modern Cabins
Fred Gerow, Host
Edith Gerow, Hostess
Member AMHA SDMHA HSMHA
Hot Springs, South Dakota

Found in "Design in Flower Arrangement" by John Taylor Arms and Dorothy Noyes Arms. Published by The Macmillan Company in 1937. (ed: I'm actually selling this copy on Etsy at the moment)