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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Early 1900s? Greeting Card Store Fixture. Help Identifying it Please.

« on: January 30, 2010, 09:27:53 am »

Thanks for the information so far the name above the picket fence is Harry Rendell Jr. Co Detroit - Chicago

The zip code sticker is on the glass covering the art work.  My grandfather put it there in 60s he also wrote in grease pencil the zip codes of his suppliers at the time.

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Antique Questions Forum / Early 1900s? Greeting Card Store Fixture. Help Identifying it Please.

« on: January 29, 2010, 08:34:50 pm »

I am hoping for some help identifying the age and history of a store fixture from I believe to be from the early 1900s.

It is a black metal filing cabinet with a textured finish and glass display sides.  It came from my Grandparent's 5 & Dime which they bought in 1943.  The filing cabinet was in the store at the time of their purchase and by 1943 was in the office in the back of the store. It has one glass side still intact and a cardboard printed advertisement for Rendell distinctive Greeting Cards.  My grandmother says they only ever carried American Greetings cards, and this was old when they got the store and is probably older than she is (96.)

 I pulled it out of her basement recently and I am hoping to learn a little about it but I can not find anything on the internet about it.