Trade Card Isaiah Greegor Carver Folk Art Florida Alligator Teeth Sea Shells

Up for sale is a scarce and never before seen Victorian trade card for a folk artist and eccentric collector/dealer by the name of Mr. Text on back reads ISAIAH GREEGOR, Carver & Dealer in Curiosities, Opposite rear of St. The front shows a very humorous view of an alligator laughing and drinking out of a glass, smoking a pipe at a swamp picnic with his friend the Vulture. The image looks to be a photographic copy of a woodblock print.

Glued on the card stock. The print is signed on the bottom right corner I. This is the only known copy of this card. An early card most likely from 1870's to early 1880's. In the 1880's to 1894, Isaiah Greegor went on to become a important collector and dealer of sea shells. I found one fairly generic looking Isaiah Greegor trade card online from 1880's that only states sea shells as his trade. Upon his death in 1906 the collection was bequeathed to the Brooklyn Institute, to be named the Phebe L.

Like any good museum, they traded around, to gather and disperse variety, and a number of the Mumford specimens came into the hands of John D. His collection was one of several large collections that were brought together under the curatorship of R. Tucker Abbott to jump-start the shell collection of the Delaware Museum of Natural History in 1971.

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