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Original antique advertising bookmark for Merrick's Spool Cotton.  Features a little Victorian girl in a pink dress, reaching up toward a dangling spool of thread.

Front reads: Merrick's Spool Cotton, Book Mark.

Back reads: Merrick's Anti-Monopoly, Anti-Trust, Anti-Combination. Spool Cotton.

Merrick's Spool Cotton is six cord, soft finish, and is made from the finest quality of combed Sea Island Cotton, and, on account of its superior strength, eveness, and smoothness, surpasses all others for hand and machine sewing.  Try one spool and be convinced of its excellence.

Dates to circa 1890s.

Measures just under 2 inches wide x 6 inches wide.

Condition is good with a crease running diagonally through the lower left corner.

Adorable image!

 

Bound volume of the The Weekly Arbor State Newspaper for Wymore, Nebraska.  Issues are dated from January 7, 1938 through December 30, 1938.

Lots of mention of area towns including the county seat of Beatrice, Barneston, Odell. Contains obituaries, wedding announcements, birth announcements and general happenings.

Many interesting advertisements!

These newspapers are bound with a thick cardboard like cover at the front and back.  

Measures 15 inches wide x 22 inches tall and about 1 1/4 inches thick.

Nice piece of Nebraska History and great tool for genealogists.

Papers are in good condition for age, somewhat brittle with some flaking around the edges, and some torn pages.  

 

Vintage circa 1970s boxed set of Duro stencils.  Includes Alphabet letters and numbers 0 - 9.  Also has a dollar sign, cent sign and division sign.  A total of 40 stencils.

Stencils come in the original box which measures 4 3/8 inches wide x 5 inches tall.  Stencils letters and numbers measure 1 inch tall.

Box shows some wear.

Stencils are unused with only the "0" having one of the pieces punched out.  All the other letters are whole and most are still joined together.

Nice retro stencil set.