Randy Taylor will recognize this advertisement for Coats’ thread. I bought it yesterday at the Chico Bottle Show. I don’t collect bottles, but I think they are interesting and pretty, so I stopped by the show.
What I do like, and will buy occasionally, are vintage greeting and advertising cards, and Randy has some of those too.
Isn’t this a great image? J & P Coats (later Coats & Clark), used many images that highlighted the strength of their thread: hauling boats, stringing a bow, muzzling a dog. They also liked cute pictures of babies, puppies and kittens (and who doesn’t?)
Here we see the typical Forty-Niner, red flannel shirt, leather boots, pistol and all, in camp patching his blue jeans with J&P Coats Best Six Cord thread.
I am going to put this in a little frame and hang over my sewing machine. It’s the perfect image for a seamstress and a writer of northern California history.
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I was out walking around and yacking Nancy. I am sorry I missed you. I am glad you found something. I have always loved the thread trade cards facinating. I have even toyed with collecting them. Enjoy and thanks.
Randy
If you come across any more of those thread cards, let me know.
The Stansbury Home, W. 5th St. and Salem, has a sewing thread cabinet, with “J. and P. Coats “embossed on the back. No doubt it came from a dry goods store in Chico when it was going out of business, or moving on from the sewing thread business. Miss Angeline Stansbury used the flat/shallow drawers to keep her art papers in. -John Gallardo