Victorian Trade Card - J. & P. Coats Thread - Children on Seesaw playing It is a die-cut bottle

It is a die-cut bottle shape and shows the troches (lozenges) in the bottle

There's one tiny ink spot over the letter "e" in "Lowell" on the front of the card

4 December

The upper ends of the anvil have a little wear at the edges and the left end has a little crease

Vietnam War

Victorian Trade Card - J. & P. Coats Thread - Children on Seesaw playing It is a die-cut bottleThis is an original Victorian trade card for J. & P. Coats thread. It shows several children playing on a seesaw made of a board and an enormous spool of Coats' Best Six Cord thread. The back indicates it is compliments of J. & P. Coats' and lists the "New Colors of the Season": Mexican Blue Cardinal Dark Antique Plum Ecru Olive Bronze Dark Pheasant Mastic Dark Chestnut Myrtle Silver Gray Venetian Bronze Steel Gray Copper Bronze It measures 4 x 2 3 4