The Young Auctioneer, 1884 Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co (A&P) Large Trade Card naturally dyes though combining them encouraged me

though combining them encouraged me to think behind the square at how these might spread out to make all sorts of of other shapes and patterns

Just a nice thing to keep on the desk (or hang on a nail near it)

It  bears the company name and location on the interior bottom of the box and I believe likely dates to the second decade of the 20th century

red lettering

in which case I'd like to think he has cleverly knotted the other end with his tongue

The Young Auctioneer, 1884 Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co (A&P) Large Trade Card naturally dyes though combining them encouraged meToo fun to resist, and I thought surely this one would make the perfect gift for the runner of an auction house, or for someone regularly on the other end of things, watching things as they are going going gone! I really love the increasingly distressed face of this child, and it seems to be quite a rare one an early trade card for the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co, which would go on top become A&P. (Founded in 1859 as "Gilman & Company", within a