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Trunks, Traveling Bags, and Satchels
Roseann Ettinger
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Description for Trunks, Traveling Bags, and Satchels
The variety of packing trunks and carrying bags from the 1890s for salesmen, tradesmen, bankers, doctors, and travelers shown here will astound you. Taken from sales catalogs, these illustrations were advertising pieces to the new mail-order business. The Price Guide reflects their values today. Num Pages: 160 pages, 190 b/w illus. BIC Classification: TDPH; WC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 228 x 12. Weight in Grams: 484.
The variety of packing trunks and carrying bags for salesmen, tradesmen, bankers, doctors, and travelers that are shown here will astound you. Whether of light or heavy weight, large or small size, and specific or general purpose, they all were made with a job in mind. Taken from the pages of sales catalogs of the 1890s, these illustrations are advertising pieces to the new mail-order business. They evoke the time when objects were made to last forever, and today there are trunks and bags of these types available in the antiques market. The Price Guide reflects what their values are ... Read more
The variety of packing trunks and carrying bags for salesmen, tradesmen, bankers, doctors, and travelers that are shown here will astound you. Whether of light or heavy weight, large or small size, and specific or general purpose, they all were made with a job in mind. Taken from the pages of sales catalogs of the 1890s, these illustrations are advertising pieces to the new mail-order business. They evoke the time when objects were made to last forever, and today there are trunks and bags of these types available in the antiques market. The Price Guide reflects what their values are ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Format
Paperback
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764306174
SKU
V9780764306174
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-2
About Roseann Ettinger
Roseann Ettinger is fascinated with the history of fashion; she owns Remember When, a vintage clothing store in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, and has written many books on twentieth century clothes and jewelry.
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