Antique Letterhead

A fun long-form example with a fine engraving of an interesting building, complete with a train, a wonderfully Victorian logo, and fine penmanship. Antique billhead for O.V. Tracy & Co., dealers in tea, spices and syrups from Syracuse, New York, dated 1894.

Did the wagon in the foreground spill its cargo? And I love the little office in the middle, and it took me a while to figure out the little shading effect that coincides with that staircase going right upstairs. At first I thought it was an attempt to show the brick under a wash of plaster, or something architectural like that! Antique billhead for D.D. Mallory & Co., packers of oysters and smoked fish from Baltimore and Chicago, dated 1887. p.s. Too bad about the paste on this one. I'm rather fond of it nevertheless...

What says San Francisco better than Victoriana and tea? Well, a stretch about the tea, I know, but not with regards to Frisco's heritage of a major port city. Reverse of an otherwise nondescript antique billhead for Siegfried and Brandenstein, tea importers from San Francisco, dated 1889.

Antique billhead for Brewster, Crittenden & Co., wholesale grocers from New York, dated 1889.

Antique billhead for F.A. Kennedy & Co., bakers from Chicago, dated 1890.

Antique billhead for Eau Claire Grocer Co. of Wisconsin, dated 1888.

Antique billhead for F.W. Devoe & Co., dealers in paints and varnishes, from New York, dated 1868.

Antique billhead for L. Gould & Co., dealers in wood and willow wares(!), from Chicago, dated 1888.

Antique billhead for Long and Company, grocers and tobacconists, from Portland, Oregon, dated 1895.

Antique billhead for John Kalb, tanner and leather merchant, from Rochester, New York, dated 1888.

Antique billhead for McNeil & Higgins Co. of Chicago, dated 1890.

Antique billhead for Smith, Perkins & Co., wholesale grocers, from Rochester, New York, dated 1891.