A delicate compliment - Lady: "Would you recommend Day & Martin's Blacking?" Shopwoman: "Certainly, madam. Nothing is so pleasing to the eye. You have only to look at your boot and you will always see your face in it."

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Title:: A delicate compliment - Lady: "Would you recommend Day & Martin's Blacking?" Shopwoman: "Certainly, madam. Nothing is so pleasing to the eye. You have only to look at your boot and you will always see your face in it."
Name on Item:: Day & Martin
Date:: [ca. 1870–1900]
Format:: Postcards/Cards
Genre:: Advertising cards
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Shoes (shelf locator)
Collection (local):: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Subjects:: Adults
Shoes
Shoe polishes
Extent:: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 9 x 12 cm.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/sq87ck53g
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