One of America’s largest and perhaps oldest chocolate companies was Whitman’s. Set up in 1842 by a young Philadelphia man, it first became popular with travelling sailor who visited his waterfront shop. Those same sailors often brought Mr. Whitman fruits, nuts and cocoa from their trips and he would sometimes incorporate them into his chocolates.
The perennial popular and still best selling Whitman’s Sampler was introduced in 1912. Then in the early 1960s the company was purchased by Pet, Inc. and subsequently acquired in 1978 by IC Industries. Finally in 1993 Russell Stover, a major US candy supplier , acquired the Whitman’s brand.
This is a vintage 1950s Whitmans Sampler advertisement for the Sampler with the words.. “It’s time to remember the way to Her heart“.
And the price of a pound of chocolates from Whitman in those days? A mere $2.00
I’m Tom Murphy and thanks for helping me give Ephemera the Encore it deserves.
This paragraph is from a blog posting over at 
He talks in the article not only about his ephemera collection.. but also that of Edwin Krueger. Krueger was proprietor of the Jack Sprat Food Store in Wykoff, Minnesota.  Ed collected and collected.. for some 91 years… and as one can see he had hundreds and perhaps thousands of magazines, pamphlets, books and who knows what, all now stored in Ed’s Museum.
We listed it at a very low starting price of $8.99 but we are sure it will command a much higher selling price.
One gentleman I recently met (in the electronic sense) is Gary Roberts of Dedham, MA. Gary specializes in a unique area of Ephemera.. early tools, trades, crafts and industries. He is also an admitted avocational purist which he says he brings along from his work ethics. The end result is a 
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