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Nice image of girl with curls wearing a flower hat. Perfume manufactured in Oswego N.Y, advertising for druggist in Portland Main.
Perfumed with Austen’s Forest Flower Cologne’
At bottom:
Wemple & Company New York Over
On the back, advertising:
Paper browned in corners, front and back. Crease LL corner.
13 x 8 cm // 5 ⅛” x 3 ⅛”
The New York office of the W. J. Austen & Co., was located at 106 Duane Street, Oswego, New York. It was owned by the druggist, William J. Austen, a manufacturer of perfumery bitters and other related medicinal products. This original trade card was published for the W. J. Austen & Company before the firm was sold or transferred around 1886 to Thomas Kingsford of (T. Kingsford & son, an Oswego Starch Factory that Manufactured Pure and Silver Gloss Starch for Laundry, Corn Starch and Prepared Corn for Culinary Use, incorporated 1848).
