Chas. Rippe, Manufacturer Of Tents, Flags, Paulins, And Festooning, Wagon And Stack Covers

CHAS RIPPE COMPANY, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI

Publication: Chas Rippe, 1890, St Louis

6" x 3.5", 32 pp, in original stapled wrappers. Ink-stamped "Discount to Meet All Competition" on both wrappers and inside front cover, faint, old damp stain at corner of rear wrapper, but overall very good. Scarce illustrated price list from this St. Louis manufacturer of tents, flags, awnings. bunting, and related products. In 1876, Charles Rippe joined the existing tent and manufacturing firm of Martin Zittlosen (founded in 1866), and by 1882 Rippe appears to have been running the company on his own. In a short introduction, he acknowledges that this catalogue "is not as showy as that issued by my competitors," but promises "plain figures and low prices" as well as high quality materials. Products offered include both U.S. and foreign flags, flagpoles, photographers' tends, stable tents, circus tents, miners' tents, haystack covers, wagon covers and umbrellas, tarpaulins for covering agricultural equipment, window and door awnings, "the best paper festoonng ever offered," and more. No copies of this or any other Chas. Rippe catalog located in OCLC.

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