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Selling Seeds in 1953—ALL the prizes!

Posted on January 6, 2014 by booksandbuttons.com

I’m back!  Back again with the American Seed catalog.  O’Half thinks I should list ALL the prizes available—that you need more choices. Well, this is opening a can of worms because there are a lot of prizes, but to save … Continue reading →

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Selling Seeds in 1953

Posted on January 5, 2014 by booksandbuttons.com

I found this old seed packet advertising recently–from 1953, and had fun looking through it.  You would sell packets of seeds for 10 cents a packet and then earn PRIZES for your sales!  How easy was that?  It says right … Continue reading →

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Nice Little Project with Books, part 2 I think

Posted on February 27, 2013 by booksandbuttons.com

So, I grabbed two more books–if you don’t count the two I took last week and didn’t tell you about . . . and they both seem to be about early advertising.   I wonder if the whole bunch are about … Continue reading →

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