Schepp's Cocoanut Advertising Trade Card Monkeys Coconut

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Schepp’s Cocoanut Advertising Trade Picture-Card. Front: Schepp’s, Improved Shredded The Only Genuine Cocoanut. Duane & Hudson Sts. New York. Printing lower left: Litho. Geo Schlegel 138 8 140 Centre New York.

SELLER NOTES: I wanted to find out a little more about this company as I didn’t know much about it or Schepp. The president and founder of L Schepp was Leopold Schepp. He was born in 1841 and died in 1926 at 84 years. According to the NY Times [See credits below] he was supervising a ring of boys selling goods on 34 Avenue railroad cars. At seventeen years he was in the spice business and at 32 years old he started his dried coconut business.

In 1880 work began on his manufacturing building for his [mostly] coconut product at 165 Duane Street. The company closed in 1930. The building was converted to co-op apartments in 1908. There is a foundation in Schepp’s name and before his death he gave away millions. [From various internet news sites, but mostly from the NY Times.]

Size: 3 5/8" X 6 3/8".

Condition: Back has some smudging from the printer’s ink. There is a penciled mark [4] on the back. The card has a pin hole right at the top monkey’s abdomen.

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Item ID: RL-1776C

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Credits: NY Times article by Christopher Gray. Nov. 24, 1991.