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Unbelievable Estate Find! Ninety-One individual Printer’s Blocks used for Newspaper advertising, etc. These blocks date back to the 1870’s and are beautiful. The companies identified include: gunn library systems; sanitaire beds; favorite stove & ranges; woolex clothes; cambridge junior/clothes; onuta women’s corsets, etc.
continued...."zion laces" (these were shoe laces and the company was located in zion, il. i contacted them and they assure me that company moved from england to zion around 1900 and was eventually bought out by marshall fields in chicago); gold medal flour, royal worcester corsets; addler clothing; rfc monogrammed shirts; celtric model #1 (it's a pen); style 305 corsets; royal worcester waists; high rock fleece (men’s jacket); lowe bros. (high standard paint); buck’s ranges; chase & sanborn’s famous boston coffees; fp style 990/corset; autocrat stationery; chase & sanborn seal brand coffee, mocha & java; emko men’s hats; buster brown stockings; sherwin william’s paint; pillsbury’s best flour; blue ribbon crawford cheese; gamble hat; stationery box; richardson wallpapers; buster brown sister’s stockings; shoo fly (fly repellent for barns, etc, - like the old "fly strips"); washburn crosby flour (start of general mills); gold medal; chinaman paint; karpen guaranteed upholstered furniture, chicago; wonderhose for children in addition to this list, there are several "blocks" that show: hats; ladies various corsets; ladies outerwear; mens clothing; furniture; kitchen appliances (stoves/ranges), etc.
