Jun 07, 2012 - Sale 2280

Sale 2280 - Lot 342

Price Realized: $ 240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
(COSTUME--SALESMAN'S BOOK.) A. Marum Wwe. A. Marum Wwe. Sobernheim. Reclame-Aufmachung. Album containing over 135 various labels for stockings manufactured by the firm of A. Marum in Sobernheim, Germany, each approximately 3 1/2x2 inches or slightly larger, with a wide range of designs; most color lithographed. Oblong 8vo, accordion-style folded leaves, each with a number of label samples; housed in the original cloth slipcase with gilt-lettered cover identifying the firm. 1930s

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Sonbernheim, Garmany was a center for knitting mills and the Marum family was prominent in the town. The family mills flourished from the 1830s-1930s. With the rise of National Socialism, the family fled to the United States where it opened new mills and prospered.