[ALEXANDRIA] [BUSINESS CARD]

Smith & Perkins / Alexandria / Iron Works, / Locomotive Engine, / & Car Builders, / Machinists, Founders, / & Millwrights. [complete text gilt-stamped within a navy oval with a gilt border].

Alexandria, VA: Smith & Perkins, nd [ca. 1850]. Trade card, 1 ½ x 3 inches, printed on glossy white card stock (now rather attractively sprinkled around the edges in red). Smith & Perkins was founded in 1835 and closed in 1857 due to bankruptcy. For a short article on the company, see “The Locomotive Fairfax” by William Johnson in Vol. 15, No. 2, 2018 of the “The Fare Facs Gazette” (online). Two lines of neat pencil pricing verso, else very good. Item #70771

Price: $250.00