Salesman Samples . Small versions , craft in exacting point , of your Cartesian product . They could be displayed in stores all over the commonwealth , or even take directly to the consumer in especially craft cases .
1. Swimming Pool
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These models of above - earth , less expensive swim pools were made by Sears in the 1960s ; market what was once a sumptuousness for the affluent to the roaring midway course . This sample distribution is an case of a case that likely did n’t go doorway to doorway , but sat on display in the memory board .
2. Neon Assortment
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In 1935 , you really had to peddle your neon . The rivalry was tearing . By 1940 , there were over 2000 small store in America bring out neon light . A case like this would be far more impressive than any catalog , and would facilitate “ Dorwart Signs of Lancaster PA ” outshine the rivalry .
3. Individual Mausoleum
I dearly hope this was n’t a room access to door salesman ’s case . Offering me a coupon for a free carpet cleanup is bothersome enough ; having someone at my room access peddling everlasting residual would be very unsettling . This was listed as a 1940s-50s salesman sample miniature , " Wilbert Individual Mausoleum with Southern Gray Blue Granite Cover and Headstone . "
4. Billiard Table
This billiard tabular array sampling , dating from the former 1900s , would probably have been shopped around to valet ’s clubs of both fine and inauspicious repute . A “ poolroom ” used to be the home you expire to range bets ( pool your money ) on buck . The billiards mesa was an afterthought , to facilitate patron surpass the clock time between backwash .
5. Bristol-Myers Products
This collection of Bristol - Myers products , dated from about 1970 , offers just about everything a modern woman needed to be happy , from debris sprayer to Bufferin .
6. Persian Rug Assortment
Teeny small carpet !
7. Avon Sample Case
This Avon typesetter’s case , listed on Ebay as “ from the 70s , ” offers a fragrancy for every modality . Do you care to emit an entrancing musk today ? Because there are options for both rugged - yet - sensitive men and elegant womanhood who apply their flush with a slashing move . Or perhaps you ’re feeling rather “ Cordovan ” ( a color … and mayhap also a shoe ) . With this Avon olfactory property taster , the possibilities are endless .
8. Safety Grating
This objective seemed to answer the threefold purposes of being both a salesman sample distribution and a patent model . Miniature versions of a unexampled ( or better ) design could also be usher to potential investors . This apt small protection box was designed in 1904 to comprise the fledgling skill of electricity . Exactly how it worked is beyond my engineering comprehension ( as is , in fairness , the latch on my frank ’s kennel ) , but the inwardness was , if you try on to issue the bars , electrical energy causes the alarm to go off . A pretty gravid advancement in security measures for 1904 .
9. Porcelain toilet
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I could obtain , woefully , almost no selective information about this Ariston Ceramics stool . But it was too beautiful , with its natural wood and remarkably swanlike curve , to leave out .
