Victorian Trade Card - Rising Sun Stove Polish - Goat in Mrs. Murphy's Kitchen excelsior clothiers 1862: Between the Union Forces

1862: Between the Union Forces under Major General John Pope and the Confederate Army commanded by Stonewall Jackson

and Fayette

000 Charleville muskets during the war

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Scovill button making machine

Victorian Trade Card - Rising Sun Stove Polish - Goat in Mrs. Murphy's Kitchen excelsior clothiers 1862: Between the Union ForcesThis is an original Victorian trade card for Rising Sun Stove Polish and features a man and woman brandishing sticks while a goat butts its reflection in her shiny stove door. The caption reads "Mrs. Murphy, did I not tell you if you used the Rising Sun Polish to keep out the goat." The back shows a box of Rising Sun Stove Polish nothing "A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever." It also warns of "being humbugged by peddlers with liquid Polishes (paint)"