Marital ... well, something short of bliss, at just 0.25 cents a bottle. This trade card was produced by the Tenexine Company, a Boston company that was founded in 1880 by Charles H. Brown. The company promised on the back of the card that its Egyptian Te-Nex-Ine glue was "the most powerful adhesive known", but it was not quite strong enough to keep the business together; the company ceased operations by 1913, when it was dissolved by Massachusetts Governor Eugene Foss.
This card is part of Hagley Library's Fingerman ephemera collection (Accession 2009.213), a collection of mixed-format ephemera assembled by collectors Arlene and Gerald Fingerman. Advertising cards and labels compose a large portion of this collection, but it also includes billheads, blotters, bookmarks, business cards, catalogs, checks, envelopes, flyers, letterheads, newsletters, packaging, postcards, and stamps.
The collection has not been digitized in its entirety, but you can view a curated selection of materials from it online now in our Digital Archive. Just click here!
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