J.&P. Coats' Spool Cotton Advertising Card - So easy a child can do it..

United States: J.&P. Coats, 1884. Very good.. Illustrated advertising card for J. & P. Coats' Spool Cotton, featuring a "before and after" illustration. In the first panels, a young lady looks at her broken sewing machine thread and asks a winged fairy, "What Shall I Do?" to which it replies "Try Coats". In the next panel she shows the spool to the viewer and exclaims "It works like a charm and never breaks" while the fairy swings on a swing. Includes a lengthier advertising pitch for the product on the back. Chromolithographed card (3" by 4.75").