If These Shirts Could Talk: The Tantalizing Tales Behind Used Clothes
Jockeying for Position: How Boxers and Briefs Got Into Men's Pants
Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
In the Hot Seat: Is Your Antique Windsor a Fake?
Love at First Kite: How Pizza and Pente Led to One Oklahoman's High-Flying Obsession
Blood, Sweat, and Steel: My Afternoon with the Ace of Swords
'The Great Gatsby' Still Gets Flappers Wrong
Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgeon's Quest to Reimagine the Garage-Band Guitar
Forget TV Pickers, Meet the Real Mavericks of the Antiques World
Coveting The Craziest Cat-People Collectibles
Posted 6 months ago
vintagemad
(304 items)
I have been helping a friend clean out a hoarders property (so much fun) and this box was inside one of the barns. I was pleased to find it in fairly good condition with nice bright colors. Most of what was inside the barn had been destroyed by 60 years of hard Minnesota Winters. The box was still full of the starch but I dumped it out.
No date on the box but I have seen ads for Kingsfords in magazines from the early 1900's. Thanks for looking.
AdvertisingFrom colorful Victorian trade cards of the 1870s to the Super Bowl commerci…
The info I could find shows that in 1899 Argo, Kingsford's and two other starch companies merged to form the United Starch Company, a forerunner of The Corn Products Refining Co. which was created in 1902 (There is a box on ebay which advertises it as 1890 release but that is not possible based on the Corn Products Co. not created til 1902) - But your box looks to be 1902-1909 era.
Very nice find.
Thanks mustang, always a pleasure, Nik
Nice graphics!