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Antique Advertising Plate Compliments Of New York Racket Store Ionia Mich 1900’s
Antique Advertising Plate Compliments Of New York Racket Store Ionia Mich 1900’s
Antique Advertising Plate Compliments Of New York Racket Store Ionia Mich 1900’s
Antique Advertising Plate Compliments Of New York Racket Store Ionia Mich 1900’s
Antique Advertising Plate Compliments Of New York Racket Store Ionia Mich 1900’s
Antique Advertising Plate Compliments Of New York Racket Store Ionia Mich 1900’s

Antique Advertising Plate Compliments Of New York Racket Store Ionia Mich 1900’s

$ 25.34

Availability: 100 in stock
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  • Condition: Used

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    Antique advertising plate compliments of New York Racket Store Ionia Mich
    Refer to photos as they are part of description
    Free of chips and cracks there is crazing in the glaze.
    Shipped with USPS Priority Mail.
    “Racket stores were individually owned and operated retail businesses carrying a large assortment of merchandise not unlike that of a country store or, later, a five-and-dime store. Racket stores offered shoes, dry goods, groceries, hardware, tableware, pots and pans, washtubs, ladies' and men's ready-to-wear clothing, and other merchandise at low prices. The earliest known use of the term was in Asheville, where an establishment called the Racket Store opened in 1887. In May 1888 William Henry Belk opened a store in Monroe called the New York Racket. "New York" was included in the name apparently to suggest class. There were also racket stores in Charlotte and Statesville; these stores apparently closed before 1929, but the one in Asheville was in operation as late as 1937. Racket stores appeared elsewhere in the South”