Antique & Vintage Postcards

A whimsical ear of corn dances across this Victorian trade card — husks as a skirt, silk tassels, playing a cornet in the middle of a cornfield — a visual pun on "cornet" typical of the era's chromolithographic humor. Published by J. H. Bufford Sons of Boston in 1887, the reverse doubles as an advertisement for a Troy, New York rubber boot dealer, folding two collecting categories into one card.