Here is a Victorian clip art advertisement for Marie Antoinette face powder which was manufactured by the Crown Perfumery Co. An illustration of the elegant ornate box the face powder was packaged in is included in the ad. The price of the powder was 50 cents a box. I scanned the original advertisement from the…
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Free Vintage Printable French Handwritten Receipt
Here is a shabby vintage handwritten French receipt. It is dated June 2, 1917 and was written on a piece of graph paper. It is complete with a stamp that was common on the antique French invoices and receipts. Click on image to enlarge.
Free Vintage Printable Grocery Store Receipt
This unused printable vintage grocery store receipt was printed for Ditto’s Store in the 1940s. Ditto’s was located on 644 Washington Avenue in Hagerstown, MD and could be reached at telephone number 1588J. The receipt has yellowed with age. Two small illustrations are included at the top of the invoice. One shows a store clerk,…
Free Vintage Clip Art Grocery Store Price Tags
Here are four vintage clip art grocery store price tags. The price of each tag is in a dark red font within a solid-line green frame, all on a lightly yellowed background. The price on the individual tags is: 19 cents, 23 cents, 50 cents and 2.89. I previously posted 2 of these tags in the…
Tulip Soap Floral Advertising Card
This Victorian advertising card for Tulip Soap features a beautiful illustration of a yellow rose clustered together with a purple lilac and plenty of green leaves. Click on image to enlarge.
Antique Dance Invitation
Here is an antique invitation to the “Second Cotillon at Sherry’s on Monday evening, January twenty-eighth, from nine until one o’clock.” I learned from an online search that a cotillon is a lively French country dance that originated in France in the 18th century. Here is a black and white version of the invitation. Click on…
Milkmaid Advertising Card
This Victorian advertising card features an illustration of a milkmaid coming in from the pasture. She is balancing a pail of milk on her head. There are several cows in the pasture in the background. The advertising on the card is for Lactart Milk Acid, a powder that was made into a medicinal beverage by…
Milk Bottle Caps
Here are two vintage milk bottle caps. The colors on both are white, red and blue.The first milk cap is for pasteurized whipping cream and was printed for Maple View Farm Dairy in Moscow, PA. The second milk cap is for Grade A raw milk and was printed for Hartwig Dairy in Woodland. Click on…
Rose Hill Dairy Milk Tickets
Here is a grouping of fourteen vintage Rose Hill Dairy milk tickets. The faded green tickets are connected by perforated lines that have never been separated. Each milk ticket was redeemable for one pint of milk. Here is an individual milk ticket separate from the group of tickets. Click on image to enlarge.
Preserve Jar Labels Open Booklet
Yesterday on my blog I shared the front cover of this well-worn vintage Preserve Jar Labels booklet. Today I’m sharing the open booklet. Some of the first pages that were in the booklet have been torn out and the partially-torn pages that remain are glued together from the adhesive that appears to have been dampened in…
Preserve Jar Labels Booklet Cover
Featured on the cover of this well-worn vintage Preserve Jar Labels booklet is a woman in a plaid dress and red apron holding up a jar of canned peaches. There are more jars of canned vegetables, fruit and jellies on a high shelf behind the woman and a few more jars of canned foods on…
Free Vintage Clip Art Grocery Store Price Tags
Here are two vintage grocery store price tags, one shows the amount of 14 cents, the other shows 89 cents. The tags were designed with the price in red font within a thin green frame, all on a cream-colored background. Click on images to enlarge.
