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George W. Hayes

1881 6 colored cards stamped "Copyright 1881 Geo. W. Hayes." Used by various advertisers. From a variety of dealers, especially Inland Empire, usually about $3 apiece. Click on any of these small images for an oversize view of the card.

Fox & Stork 1

Fox & Stork 2

Fox & Grapes

OF

TMCM 1

TMCM 2

 

FS First scene: The Shallow Dish

3 copies, no text on the front and blank on the back, one signed "Willie Groover"

FS Second scene: The Tall Vase

2 copies, no text on the front and blank on the back
1 copy, no text on front and advertisement for Ackerman Bros. Crockery, San Francisco, on the back
1 copy, American Exchange Hotel, San Francisco, information on the front and an engraving of the hotel on the back
1 copy, "Buy Garland Stoves and Ranges" on the front and a Garland seal on the back, with a stamp on the back from a hardware dealer in Pulaski, NY
1 copy, "Wheeler & Pierson, Clothiers, New Orleans" on the front and nothing on the back; the card is cropped around the edges and bent on its left side

FG:

3 copies, no text on the front and blank on the back
1 copy, with "Buy Garland Stoves and Ranges" hung on the grapes-wall as a sign by means of a clever use of a stamp; there is a Garland seal on the back
1 copy, with "Beware of Glucose Candy: It is absolutely Poison" printed across the top! It goes on: "Baxter, 100 South Salina cor., Jefferson St., Syracuse, N.Y." Blank back. $12 from Alice Kasten, Great Neck, NY, through Ebay, July, '99

OF:

1 copy, no text on the front and blank on the back; the cigar-smoking bull looks down with a magnifying glass on the formally dressed frog!

TMCM Scene I: Country Meal on a Mushroom while overdressed CM looks away

1 copy, no text on the front and blank on the back
1 copy, no text on the front and remnants of pasted scrapbook on the back
1 copy, no text on the front and "R.H. Hatzfeld, Successor to Adolph G. Vogeler, Pharmacist, Chicago" on the back
1 copy, "Buy Garland Stoves and Ranges" on the front with an additional stamp, "Sold by Adolph Berens,Wyandotte, Mich." and a Garland seal on the back

TMCM Scene II: The Cat Arrives

3 copies, no text on the front and blank on the back