Two Beautiful Bird Cushions - Gorcy Catalog, 1928

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">  <b>Hot-iron transfer patterns from the 1928 Gorcy Catalog. Because this was a Canadian company several of the ads are in English and French. </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>You could also get this image hand painted on ecru or black satin. Yes please!</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc_-7jpusif72GpW9OmFLBLPN6diDfiFvRhv2yfzhZ0U43jwxYdO5-e6Q-Mdgvm2zfalickaRFXnP9Jy7wX5GPZE52HWCmI3nnnsdQOF-GjeiOb2PQzjLHta4t-hM2qi73YAdPquiFLh2n/s1600/GorcyCatalogAug1928-6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc_-7jpusif72GpW9OmFLBLPN6diDfiFvRhv2yfzhZ0U43jwxYdO5-e6Q-Mdgvm2zfalickaRFXnP9Jy7wX5GPZE52HWCmI3nnnsdQOF-GjeiOb2PQzjLHta4t-hM2qi73YAdPquiFLh2n/s1600/GorcyCatalogAug1928-6.jpg" width="435" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Two Beautiful Bird Cushions - Gorcy Catalog, 1928

  Hot-iron transfer patterns from the 1928 Gorcy Catalog. Because this was a Canadian company several of the ads are in English and French. ...

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New and Attractive - The Japanese Design

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>This is one offering from the August 1928 Gorcy catalog. Gorcy was based in Montreal and many of the ads are in French and English. This one caught my eye because I haven't seen a Sewing Machine Scarf or one for a Phonograph. These were stamped patterns that came on different fabrics (at different prices) . Then you could buy cotton or silk embroidery floss 'make the article'.</b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQaitV5Ry6ylajapLw5gxlXI6R5O_WGgIuYPcOycWjkHVIT3KvTfngjZoGblhTdoVoOdIE8fXW_JwdJcfV_syQrEUnvp6Pd5o6ED3PE8t36_pNY_OaSINK0W1Hd28zYgdsq0oh4rAQDvUl/s1600/GorcyCatalogAug1928-8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQaitV5Ry6ylajapLw5gxlXI6R5O_WGgIuYPcOycWjkHVIT3KvTfngjZoGblhTdoVoOdIE8fXW_JwdJcfV_syQrEUnvp6Pd5o6ED3PE8t36_pNY_OaSINK0W1Hd28zYgdsq0oh4rAQDvUl/s1600/GorcyCatalogAug1928-8.jpg" /></a><b>In 1925 Emile Gorcy patented his Transfer Ink with mutton fat as the main ingredient. </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>"B<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21.33333396911621px;">e it known that I, EMILE Gorcy, a citizen of the French Republic, residing at Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Transfer Ink...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21.33333396911621px;">This transfer ink is formed of the following ingredients, preferably combined in the proportions indicated, namely: mutton fat,</span></b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21.33333396911621px;">49 parts; black soap. 14 parts; and aniline coloring, 7 parts."</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />

New and Attractive - The Japanese Design

This is one offering from the August 1928 Gorcy catalog. Gorcy was based in Montreal and many of the ads are in French and English. This one...

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