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Original Trade Catalog+5 Product Photographs KOKEN BARBER SUPPLY CO. Chairs etc.

$ 264

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Condition: Catalog is lacking its original covers (wraps). Some frequent notes written to contents (prices, quantities, etc...). Some mild finger soiling at page edges. Overall holding together well and about good. Photographs linen backed and with model numbers identified to versos. Photographs solidly very good.
  • Date of Creation: 1899
  • Color: Multi-color
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Type of Advertising: Catalog
  • Brand: Koken
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted

    Description

    An original trade catalogue issued by the Koken Barber Supply Co. of St. Louis in about 1899 accompanied by five original and about contemporary product photographs.
    It is not explicitly dated, though the section of photographs of the factory and warehouses are dated 1898, as is a large, full page ad for shaving cream about in the middle of the book.
    THIS IS LACKING ITS COVERS though the contents and page numbering seem to match up to a copy of the company's catalog No. 11 held by the Missouri History Museum (which also dates it as 1899).
    So, this is very likely catalog No. 11.
    There are 12, stunning full-page color chromolithograph illustrations of chairs and other color product illustrations scattered throughout.
    This is pages 3-148 (with the front cover likely having been pp. 1-2 and the rear likely having been pp.149).
    It measures approximately 12" x 9."
    Apart from the missing covers this is complete and hasn't had anything cut out of it.
    Condition issues aside, this is a RARE catalog. A much later Koken catalog recently sold here on eBay for 0.
    ALSO INCLUDED:
    Five original, likely slightly later (we're thinking early 1900's) original product photographs of Koken chairs. They measure about 9 1/2" x 7 1/2" each and are blindstamped by St. Louis photographer F.D. Hampson at lower right edges. They are linen backed and the model numbers are identified in handwritten numbers to the linen (#161-165).
    This all ships FREE to The USA via UPS Ground, safely packed and promptly dispatched same business day as payment received.