Arm and Hammer Salerutus Gorgeous Late 19th C Trade Card Adirondack frame etched with very MCM lozenge

etched with very MCM lozenge pattern (a bit tricky to photograph)

There is a nice warm patina to the grass

dating them to sometime between the 1850s and the late 1800s

together they add up to provoke romantic visions of living on a houseboat

or set next to the sink for rings and earrings or whatever

Arm and Hammer Salerutus Gorgeous Late 19th C Trade Card Adirondack frame etched with very MCM lozengeI do believe this is the most beautiful advertising trade card I have ever seen combining perhaps the best company logo ever with the perfect graphic design (that lettering!) and beautiful production (that gold!). I have only found one other like this, held in the San Diego State University Library Special Collections; it's a rare one. And dates to the late 19th century, as soon after Arm and Hammer changed the name from Salerutus to the perhaps