Large 1886 A&P Tea And Coffee Victorian Advertising Trade Card Nice Colors

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This beautiful advertising trade card has a copyright date of 1886 right on the front. It is for
The Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company also known as The A&P. A company that has been around since the 1850s as the largest Tea and Coffee importer and then in the 20th Century became one of the largest supermarket chains and then finally filed for bankruptcy and went out of business in 2015. A sad ending to a once great company. This trade card is large about 6 x 8 and features a very colorful image of some people on a boat trying to eat dinner and the rocking of the boat it throwing everything off the table. A sign on the wall says "The Teas and Coffee used on board this ship are from The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. The captain seems to be use to this because he is just enjoying his tea like nothing is happening while everybody else is freaking out. On the back is an ad for "Thea-Nectar" a black tea with a green tea taste. Adapted for Ice Tea. I didn't know they drank Ice Tea back then! Also an ad for 8 O'Clock Breakfast Coffee. Card in has a couple small fold creases on corners, back has some old glue from being in scrapbook, Nice bright color. A super fun card!
Guaranteed to be "old" and authentic.
2/2017
Brief History of Trade Cards  by  Ben Crane
Over a century ago, during the Victorian era, one of the favorite pastimes was collecting small, illustrated advertising cards that we now call trade cards. These trade cards evolved from cards of the late 1700s used by tradesmen to advertise their services. Although examples from the early 1800s exist, it was not until the spread of color lithography in the 1870s that trade cards became plentiful.
By the 1880s, trade cards had become a major way of advertising America's products and services, and a trip to the store usually brought back some of these attractive, brightly-colored cards to be pasted into a scrapbook.
Some of the products most heavily advertised by trade cards were in the categories of: medicine, food, tobacco, clothing, household, sewing, stoves, and farm.
The popularity of trade cards peaked around 1890, and then almost completely faded by the early 1900s when other forms of advertising in color, such as magazines, became more cost effective.
Although trade card collecting began over 100 years ago, today's strong interest in trade cards began relatively recently. Trade cards that were bought for ten cents thirty years ago frequently bring ten dollars or more in today's market--and some have even sold for over a thousand dollars.