Another Set of Trade Cards with Crazy Stitches
This set was produced for Brainerd & Armstrong Silk
Works by the Donaldson Brothers of Five Points, NY. The cards feature anthropomorphic spools frolicking
around a manufacturing plant with an advertising verse for their product. The reverse sides have the same image of
Brainerd & Armstrong’s Crazy Stitches.
Card 1: Spools
playing in the ocean by the factory near a boardwalk
A Seaside Frolic
We cut quite a dash, and make
quite a splash
In the seas, as we frolic
around,
But never you laugh, for this is
not half
The sensation we’re making in
town.
Card 2: Spools under the moonlight, running outside
the factory, dancing, conducting, playing instruments: fiddle, banjo, flute,
trumpet
A Moonlight Frolic
A jolly good company we,
With us quiet life don’t agree;
We’re so smooth and so long, so
elastic and strong
We cannot lie still, don’t you
see?
Other text on card
fronts:
Brainerd & Armstrong Silk Works
Use Brainerd & Armstrong’s Spool Silk
Donaldson Brothers, Five Points, N.Y.
Donaldson
Brothers, Five Points, N.Y.
Brothers George, Frank, John, and Robert founded the firm
Donaldson Brothers Steam Lithographic Printers in 1872.
