Another Set of Trade Cards with Crazy Stitches

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.