1890 OXFORD & HAZEN CONFECTIONARY CHOCOLATES GRAPHIC ADVERTISING POCKET MIRROR

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VERY DESIRABLE PIECE
Up for consideration is a scarce and desirable
1890 OXFORD CHOCOLATES GRAPHIC ADVERTISING POCKET MIRROR
Very cool straight ahead early advertising mirror featuring a attractive female graduate with graduation garb.  I have never come across this image before.  very strong and makes sense to use for A chocolate company.
the actual maker name is on the edge  HAZEN CONFECTIONARY CO.
Hazen was a famous candy company based in Cambridge Mass.  and one of the first gourmet candy companies in the state.
The company also has a serious law suit brought against it in 1917,  READ ON
January 17, 1912 - February 27, 1912
Suffolk County
Present: RUGG, C. J., MORTON, HAMMOND, SHELDON, & DECOURCY, JJ.
Negligence, Employer's liability. Practice, Civil, Question for the jury, Conduct of trial: judge's charge, requests and rulings, Exceptions. Agency, Scope of authority. Evidence, Opinion: experts.
At the trial of an action at common law against the proprietor of a candy factory for personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff while an employee therein and at work in front of a caramel cutting machine, it appeared that the machine had an endless canvas carrier belt or apron revolving in a horizontal plane on rollers, that trays of uncut caramel were placed upon the carrier belt and by it were carried under knives revolving above it, which cut the candy. There was evidence that the canvas belt had become loose, that in such a condition it slipped upon the rollers and did not move so fast, and that, if pressed down, it would jump suddenly forward to the full speed of the rollers and the hand of one so pressing it was in danger of being drawn upon the knives; that without instruction or warning as to the machine's defective condition, the plaintiff, who was inexperienced, was set at work at it and was told merely to watch the candy as it went under the knives and to keep it straight, that in attempting to do as she was told she pressed down on the carrier belt, her hand was drawn in, and she was injured. Held, that it could not be said as matter of law that the risk of the injury which the plaintiff suffered was so obvious as to have been assumed by her; and that the questions, whether the plaintiff when injured was in the exercise of due care and whether the defendant had failed in the duties of furnishing a reasonably safe machine and of properly instructing and warning the plaintiff as to hidden dangers and defects in the machine, were for the jury.
It is within the discretionary power of a judge presiding at a trial to read to the jury after the close of the charge a ruling which he previously had been asked to give; and there can be no exception to the exercise of that discretion, especially when, before reading the ruling, he states in substance that, in reading it, he did not want the jury to understand that he intended "to call specific attention to any particular portion of the case so as to give it an undue prominence."
multi color lithography
Condition is strong.  NEAR MINT PIECE.  very minor mirror spotting
These great pieces of advertising were important forms of giveaway advertising 100+ years ago.  Women were able to keep in their purse for a perpetual reminder of the product when they used the mirror.  Many were lost, broken, thrown away, or destroyed.
Selling a 50 year collection of classic advertising including tins, trays, and so on.
VERY DESIRABLE POCKET MIRROR
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