mueller mfg (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. moderate wear and soiling or discoloration to boards, upper fore corner gently bumped, otherwise clean and sound, 12mo, various pagination, about 300 pages, gray-green cloth with black titles, third edition.

Zustand: Very good. Undivided-back postcard; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2; mild age-toning and light wear to edges; in very good condition.From the Exhibit of Water, Gas, and Plumbing Goods at the Palace of Manufactures at the St. Louis World's Fair, the poscard showed the offices and the factory of the H. Mueller Mfg. Co. - founded in 1857 in Decatur, Illinois and known for gunsmithing, plumbing services, and sporting goods. The 1904 St. Louis World's Fair would be the place, where hold-to-light postcards would gain massive fame in the United States as popular souvenirs from the event. With die-cut windows and a hidden translucent layer between two card stock ones, when held up to a lamp or flame, the image magically transformedwindows "illuminated" at night, colors shifte, new hidden figures appeared, and the Moon and the Sun shone brightly.

456 pp. Red cloth, lightly soiled, worn at edges. Illustrated (some in color) catalogue of plumbing fixtures and implements. Many stopcocks, valves and faucets, but also sinks, showers and drinking fountains.