Fishing Tackle Billheads & Letterheads

A very popular subject that sells well on ebay.

1828 billhead top London - Taylor fishing tackle maker

1831 billhead top London - AR Jacobs

1868 billhead C. Bradburn & Co. Cleveland OH

1874 billhead Moore & Son Ellenville NY

1875 billhead Barton & Co. New York NY

1881 billhead Bradford & Anthony Boston MA

1881 billhead Gilbert Bailey Portland ME

1881 letterhead George A. Graves Springfield MA

1885 billhead Andrew Hendryx New Haven CT

1895 billhead Tracey, Wells & Co. Columbus OH

1899 billhead Sidney R. Baxter & Co. Boston MA

1899 billhead JW Tuttle & Co. Plattsburgh NY

1899 letterhead Miller, Sloss & Scott San Francisco CA

1903 billhead JC Schmidt & Son Memphis TN

1903 letterhead Marshall Wells Hardware Co. Duluth MN

1904 billhead Dame, Stoddard & Co. Boston MA

1904 billhead Abbey & Imbrie New York NY

1905 billhead Wm Frank Hardware Co. Milwaukee WI

1908 billhead Van Camp Hardware & Iron Co. Indianapolis IN

1908 billhead Bullard & Gormley Co. Chicago IL

1920 billhead HA Whittemore & Co. Boston MA

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Australian Billheads

As promised from by last post, here are some examples of Australian billheads I found on the website Print and Printmaking Australia Asia Pacific . Based on the Australian print collection at the National Gallery of Australia there is free online access to over 22,000 images. The databases can be searched by artist, subject or print techniques such as etching, woodcut, wood-engraving, linocut, lithograph, screenprint, monotype and other print related processes such as posters and artists books. Index to online information on printmakers, print workshops, print publishers, print galleries and public and private collections.

CAPEWELL HORSE NAIL COMPANY

I regularly purchase goods and paper at a local online auction. In December, I noticed that a lot of random estate / household goods also had a small pile of what looked to be calendars. I won the lot and sure enough it included many advertising calendars. Many of those were for the Capewell Horse Nail Company of Hartford Connecticut. These calendars were damaged, but the color and graphics were still very bright. Last week, I happened on a lot of paper through ebay that included a billhead for the company. Attached are photos of all for your enjoyment.

Rubber Goods

The rubber industry in the United States can hardly be said to have had any real and tangible existence until the discovery of the process of vulcanization in 1844 by Charles Goodyear. The first rubber ever imported into this country was brought into Boston in the year 1800 and came in In that same year a patent was granted to one Jacob Hummel, of Philadelphia, for a gum-elastic varnish; of which, however, there seems to have been no further mention. Some ten years later, in 1823, a Boston sea-captain, coming from South American ports, brought with him a pair of gilded rubber shoes which excited the greatest interest. Two years later, 500 pairs of rubber shoes, made by the natives along the Amazon, were brought into Boston, this time without the fantastical refinement of gilding. They were exceedingly thick, clumsy, and unshapely shoes, and yet they sold readily, bringing from $3 to $5 per pair as they were found that they were a secure protection against dampness. This was the e...

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