Walking Sticks Dealer Trade Card

New York: Wm Demuth & Co., 1880. First Edition. Very good. Trade card; 5 1/4 x 4; pale-pink card stock, chromolithographed, embossed, with gilt and silver highlights; a bit of wear to corners and high points ofo embossed design; a few mild spots to margins; very good condition.Wilhelm Demuth (1835 - 1911), a German immigrant, founded his pipes, cigar-store figures, canes, and other carved goods company in 1862 in New York. He would become known for his superb craftsmanship and his "Columbus Landing in America" centennial meerschaum masterpiece, which took two years to produce and was exhibited at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The lavishly-illustrated trade card advertised his beautiful walking sticks.