Clark’s Spool Cotton. There was an endless set of these made in the late 18 and early 1900’s. It was a little hard to follow what happened to the company, but it seems it merged or was bought out. If you wikipedia Clark’s Thread Company, you are forwarded to a page for Coats Group, which is a still extant textile company. Coats was a competitor of Clark’s in the 17 & 1800’s.
Text only ad,
Lots more art ads examples. Most of it seems to place a cotton spool into the scene in some way.
Lastly, there were custom storage cabinets.
Some others, wouldn’t fit in main post,
Last but not least.
Sometimes I miss the florid English of when yonder.
The little girl in glasses just charms the socks off of me.
Can we bring back ads like this? With actual art worth looking at? Lol. I know, back then they probably didn’t feel exciting but with everything being AI now this is nice.
Terrifying caricature man
