THE EPHEMERA OF BUSINESS

nother 40 degree day in January in Wisconsin. All this leads to is muddy paws and the constant washing of towels. I love winter, fall and summer - all nice and dry. While others enjoy spring - with my little "mud bucket" I detest it! Here's to snow soon! The mud bucket Gus and Santa.

Just about every other comparison between the Badgers and Ducks can be found on espn, so here is my take - using billhead and letterheads. First up - Badgers v. Ducks. Next is the Oregon state fruit - see the pear on the left side? Oregon's state animal is the beaver and of course the badger for Wisconsin! Finally, Oregon's state colors are blue & gold and Wisconsin's is - oh no, not red, but blue! Go Badgers!

I recently purchased a large lot of ephemera which included an 1844 newspaper entitled The People's Organ printed in St. Louis Missouri. I am totally enamored with the graphic advertisements in the paper. I soon started researching some of the firms hoping to find a letterhead, billhead, receipt, check or trade card to couple with the ads. One of the ads in the paper is for James M. Kershaw - engraver and copperplate printer: bills of exchange, heads of bills, diplomas, business, address and visiting cards, notarial, consular and counting-house seals, silverware, door plates, wood cuts neatly engraver. Research into Kershaw revealed that he designed and printed the St. Louis "Bears" provisional stamps in 1845. Kershaw was a well-known engraver in St. Louis and proprietor of the Western Card and Seal Engraving Co. Kershaw engraved the designs on a small copper plate, with an area sufficient to contain six subjects in three rows of two. Not having any means of mechanical ...

Julius W. Orr was born in Ireland in 1815. He was brought to the U.S. as a child. He studied word engraver in New York and later established his own engraving business.

The Green Bay Packers were founded on August 11, 1919 by Curly Lambeau and Ted Olson. Lambeau solicited funds for uniforms from his employer, the Indian Packing Company. He was given $250 for uniforms and equipment, on the condition that the team be named for its sponsor. Today, "Green Bay Packers" is the oldest team name still in use in the NFL. Looking through the packers billhead I have shown below, note that most have graphics and the graphics fall into two categories – factories or pigs.