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Description
This is a Victorian-era trade card promoting A.S.T. Co. black tips for children's shoes, designed to protect the toes from wear and tear.
- Marketing Strategy: The card uses humor, illustrating that shoes without the tip are destroyed by a dog, while those with the tip remain intact.
- Historical Context: These advertising cards were popular between approximately 1870 and 1900.
- Usage: Local shoe stores often stamped their own business information on these cards to distribute them to customers
- Measures 5 1/8 x 3 1/4 inches.
Condition as above, supersize the scans.
