Dixon's Carburet of Iron Stove Polish Advertising Brochure

Jersey City: Donaldson Brothers, 1884. First Edition. Very good. Small brochure; 5 x 3 1/4; pp. [4]; chromolithographed illustrations flowing between two pages; minor spotting and age-toning; in very good condition.A charming advertisement for Dixon's Carburet of Iron Stove Polish it containe a short, puzzling quatrain this bookseller has not been able to decipher. The illustrations showed a delivery boy on the street, with a basket full of boxes of the stove polish, singing into one end of a stove pipe, the latter going through the door of the house, where a man is supporting it, with musical notes flying ot of the other end of the pipe. The text read: The Stove is Lustrous in a trice / For Fritzy takes the Lad's Advice / And says, when seated at his Ease / Dixon's Stove Polish dakes der Cheese." Joseph Dixon (1799 -1869) was a businessman and prolific inventor, known for creating and patenting a steam engine, a printing method for banknotes to protect them against counterfeiting, and the first wood and graphite pencil in the US.