Victorian two-color trade cards with hand-shaped pointing motifs — photographic adverts

Two stacked late-19th-century trade cards printed in red and green on cream paper. Each card uses a large hand-shaped illustration as a layout device and...

• vintage
• victorian
• trade card
• advertising ephemera
• hand illustration
• ornamental typography
• letterpress
• photograph advertisement
• two-color print
• paper trade cards (two, stacked)
• hand-shaped illustration motifs
• ornate typography and lettering
• scalloped decorative border
• red and green ink printing
• fold/age stains and foxing

Upper card (large visible text): SOLDIERS and AGENTS should send for CERTIFICATES and CATALOGUES. TAKE TIME by the FORELOCK. PREPARE TO DOUBLE their MONEY ON PAY DAY. (vertical/ornamental words: UNITED) Lower card (large visible text): MODE