[Midget Card Shop]

MCS Inc. Social Necessities [Calling Card Trade Catalog]

New Cumberland, PA: Midget Card Shop, 1920. Very Good+. Item #45858

New Cumberland, PA: Midget Card Shop, n.d., ca. 1920s. Small octavo (15.5cm); publisher's brown staplebound embossed card wrappers; [10]ll. stiff brown stock interleaved with tissue guards; thirty-one (31) mounted card samples. Light wear and very brief soil to upper cover, else a Very Good to Near Fine example.

Rare little trade catalog of business cards and playing cards from the expanding Pennsylvania-based card company. Sample cards show different styles of "engravotyped" business cards, fraternal organization membership cards, and "comic cards" whose samples include a business card with a skull and crossbones and a devil card ("I am James W. Black who the [devil] are you?" The catalog concludes with samples of the company's specialty, "midget" name and playing cards and brownie name cards.

Not separately catalogued in OCLC as of October, 2025.

Price: $350.00