One colored card advertising J. & P. Coats Thread · Carlson Fable Collection

Title: One colored card advertising J. & P. Coats Thread
Description: 1890? One colored card advertising J. & P. Coats Thread. 3" x 4½".

This is one of the most dramatic trade cards I have. The lion is bound up with threads, and the mouse sits perched on a spool of J. & P. Coats Best Six Cord thread. The other side of the card gives the fable and a long application, both apparently taken verbatim from Croxall. The card's picture is in a style different from all other Coats cards I have found, especially when it inserts three colored boxes to give information: "Spool cotton," "For hand and machine," and "See the other side for fable."
Date: 1890?
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