Real Photo Maxwell Truck Eastern States Package Peterborough ESPCO Baskets L363

Description: Here is a nice old RPPC Real Photo Post Card for your collection! This card comes from a 40 year collection of fine postcards including RP's. Hold To Lights, Halloween postcards, Expositions, better Santa's and much more! Check out the others in my eBay store and stop back often for new listings! This postcard shows an image of a unique old delivery truck. It has an enclosure on the back made of basketweave! In addition there are all types of wicker and woven baskets on display on the roof! Theside of the truck is painted and readsESPCO.It sits out front of The Tavern at Peterborough New Hampshire. The ESPCO or Eastern States Package Co. was from both Buffalo NY and Peterborough NH and sold New England Oak and Ash baskets of all types.Beginning in1854,with Amzi Childs basket shop in Peterborough NH they had been manufacturing baskets continuously for 153 years. The business was later sold to theEastern States Package Company in 1915 which becamethe Peterborough Basket Co.in 1926. Their catalog listed60 different basket styles from baby carriers to lunch and picnic baskets to wash baskets. I found a description of ESPCO's float, from The Peterborough Transcript, July 7, 1921 and it is shown here (not included in the sale). The card back is divided and is not postmarked. Condition is good to very good as shown. Guaranteed vintage and original. The watermark is not on the postcard you are buying here. All of our cards are shipped safely inside a rigid postcard mailer. Shop all of our postcards for sale in our eBay store and save on combined shipping! New cards added daily.

Price: 39.99 USD

Location: Sarasota, Florida

End Time: 2025-01-31T00:03:12.000Z

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