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About AntiqueAdvertising.co

Independent identification, authenticity, preservation, and marketplace research.

AntiqueAdvertising.co is an independent collector field guide focused primarily on advertising made before 1940.

What belongs here

Trade cards, labels, tins, signs, trays, store displays, packaging, catalogs, billheads, calendars, premiums, local-business paper, and related commercial objects.

How it differs from VintageAdvertising.co

This site emphasizes older production, chromolithography, letterpress, early packaging, pre-Prohibition material, country-store objects, patent medicine, Victorian paper, early store signs, and deep authenticity work. VintageAdvertising.co covers later twentieth-century advertising more broadly.

Ohio focus

Ohio printers, breweries, druggists, factories, retailers, fairs, cities, and small towns receive dedicated coverage because regional provenance can transform an object into valuable local history.