Visiting card sample with note on back

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New York NY, Butler and Keller, 1880s

fine

1880s sample of an embossed visiting card, Butler & Keller Company, New York. On back, a penned note: “Flat, six rooms, lower floor in double apartment house on Sharp Rd., water, gas and electric service in the house, apply Rose and Johnson store.” Butler and Kelley were established in 1880, advertising elsewhere: “Headquarters  for  and  Manufacturers  of Folders,  Ball  Programmes, Invitations,  Masquerade  Designs, Society  Designs,  Announcements, Tickets,  Picture  Cards, Calendars,  Calendar  Pads, Tassels  Show  Cards, Menus  Etc.,  Etc. Sold  to  the  Printing  Trade  exclusively  in  our  own local  territory, Elsewhere  to  jobbers  only. Send  for  Samples  if  interested Telephone  4451  Beekman.” Given the address, the apartment may have been in Baltimore. The printers are in New York and used the early Beekman telephone network.