Illustated catalogue & price list : staple goods & novelties.
A. Coulter & Co., a Chicago dry-goods firm, issued this illustrated 1878 catalogue and price list of staple goods and novelties for mail-order customers. Its pictures are wood-engraved views of pocket watches: an ornate case back, an open face with Roman numerals, a plain hunter case with a maker's stamp, and a movement with exposed gears. A designer could draw on the fine line hatching and decorative scrollwork of Victorian metalwork.
