1735227

Sayers and Company Corset Advertisement #1735227

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Sayers and Company Corset Advertisement #1735227
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This 1880s-1900s vintage card comes from Sayers and Company of Wilmington, Ohio. It is an advertisement for a corset!</em></td>
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This card is of 1880s-1900s vintage and comes from Sayers and Company of Wilmington, Ohio. Although it appears to be a postcard, it is an advertisement for a corset!<p>

The front of the card shows people in a number of activities, from sailing to sledding to dancing to riding to fishing to canoeing to walking. Ink drawings of corsets appear like adornments throughout the card, which measures 6 x 4 1/2 inches. It is strange to see these insertions of the corsets into scenes of typically male activities!<p>

The back of the card is where the true intent begins. It shows the Bortree Manufacturing Company name above the "Duplex Corset" and proceeds to elaborate, with gold medals, on the awards this corset has won. Any woman of today would shrink from wearing this contraption! It has (and I quote) "Double Bones and Double Steels" and "Are adjustable over the hips by strap and buckle"! Apparently the "duplex" aspect comes from the fact that the corset comes "with or without shoulder straps"!<p>

Although this is not a postcard, it shows script with two names and addresses on it. Perhaps these were a salesman's notes ??!!<p>

This card will become a treasure for its lucky new owner!
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<tr><td>Condition:Very Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1880-1900</td></tr>






<tr><td>Title:Sayers and Company Corset Advertisement</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:Hillsboro, Ohio USA</td></tr>
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