Return from the Insect Fair, Very Scarce Clapp and Treat Seeds Trade Card, Hartford CT, 1890s cigarette card portraits (These names have lead me

(These names have lead me nowhere)

20 1/4" w x 12" t and in good condition

and the top and bottom a mustard yellow

with perhaps his butler in the background

Early 20th century I believe and unsigned as far as I can tell

Return from the Insect Fair, Very Scarce Clapp and Treat Seeds Trade Card, Hartford CT, 1890s cigarette card portraits (These names have lead meSuch a fun one, and trade cards for vegetable seeds are my favorite. Especially a giant beet on wheels pulled (punningly) by a beetle! (Clever.) I can't find another like it out there, though have found a few references to Clapp and Treat seeds; I believe this dates to the 1890s or so. 5" x 3", good condition, bright and crisp, with a bit of stain visible along left edge and some old glue staining (not sticky) around the edges of the reverse side.