CASTLE BROTHERS TEA & COFFEE S/F, INVOICE TO ISDELL MERCANTILE, MONTANA, 1897 🫖

Description: CASTLE BROTHERS 🫖 TEA & COFFEE ⛾MERCHANTS / IMPORTERS. SAN FRANCISCO, CA. 1897 INVOICE TO: ISDELL MERCANTILE, PONY, MONTANA. PLEASE NOTE: We love acquiring decades' old bank drafts, billheads, correspondence, stock certificates, vintage ephemera and other paper memorabilia - - as these documents afford us an opportunity to look back in time and experience some of what was occurring long ago. If you own a coffee shop, this would look fantastic framed and hanging on the wall! TYPE OF SCRIPOPHILY, EXONUMIA, NOTAPHILY꞉ Business to business invoice. COMPANY'S NAME꞉ Castle Brothers, Commission Merchants. ADDRESS꞉ Sacramento and Davis Streets CITY, COUNTY & STATE꞉ San Francisco (San Francisco) California. FORM PRINTED BY꞉ Unknown. DATE ON FORM & YEARS OLD꞉ August 18, 1897 (127-years old). MERCHANT'S NAME꞉ The Isdell Mercantile Company. ADDRESS꞉ Broadway Street CITY, COUNTY & STATE꞉ Pony (Madison) Montana. PRODUCTS PURCHASED꞉ Produce. VALUE OF GOODS꞉ $156.99 TYPE OF DOCUMENT꞉ Business to business invoice. GENERAL COLOR(S)꞉ Off-white paper with black, magenta and violet inks. MEASUREMENTS꞉ 6¾” tall by 8⅜” wide. EMBOSSING꞉ None. TAXATION/REVENUE/OTHER STAMPS꞉ None. WATERMARKS ON PAPER꞉ Yes, Royal Mills. Royal Mills was a watermark of the H. S. Crocker Company of San Francisco, California. FOLDS꞉ Appears to be two vertical (up and down) and two horizontal (left to right). CORNERS꞉ Minor damage to upper left corner. HOLES, TEARS, DAMAGE꞉ Minor damage to the upper left corner. Slight browning from over a century's worth of age. ADDITIONAL NOTES꞉ Interestingly, this invoice mentions that the invoice is “payable in United States gold coin.” We have never seen this printed on any vintage invoice we have every acquired. ABOUT CASTLE BROTHERS TEA & COFFEE IMPORTERS꞉ Castle Brothers, Commission Merchants, Tea and Coffee Importers was located at the northeast corner of Sacramento and Davis Streets in San Francisco, California. The company was considered a wholesale grocer. In 1885, the company was located at 213, 215 and 217 Front Street, San Francisco, California. We know that by 1891, the company had moved and relocated to 200, 202, 204, 206 & 208 Davis Street and the other side of their building at 118, 120, 122 & 124 Sacramento Street. This was an excellent address for an importer, as the building was located only two-blocks from the San Francisco Bay. In 1906, Castle Brothers was the 5th largest importer of coffee in the San Francisco area, importing 17,397 bags of coffee that year. Castle Brothers' Davis and Sacramento Streets building has long since been raised (it stood where the Embarcadero Center Mall stands today). ABOUT THE ISDELL MERCANTILE COMPANY꞉ The Isdell Mercantile Company building still stands today in the ghost town of Pony, Montana. At one time, the company employed fourteen clerks. It was built of stone in 1880 and at one time, housed a school, the town's post office and accommodated town meetings. The Isdell Mercantile Company was created in 1869 by N. J. Isdell in the town of Pony, Montana. Once called the "metropolis of the Madison Valley" by the "Madisonian," Pony was a boom town created by major quartz discoveries in 1875. The mercantile was incorporated in 1892. By 1900, the town had a schoolhouse, bank, newspaper, hotels, and several saloons. This growth, made possible by wealth from local mining operations, allowed the small mercantile to prosper. The Isdell Mercantile Company provided hardware, mining supplies, and various dry goods to the community. The mercantile went out of business when the quartz mining was halted in the Pony area. By the 1940s, the town was completely abandoned. SHIPPING COST꞉ Your shipping cost is calculated when checking out. To keep your shipping cost as low as possible, it's based on “DIM” (i.e. weight, package size and final destination). This item ships by United States Mail or eBay International Delivery. Orders typically ship within one business day of your payment being received. This item will be mailed in a large envelope, box, cardboard tube or cardboard “sandwich” to minimize folding in transit. We DO NOT take historical documents and refold them to save on postage costs.

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