Rare Antique Advertizing Sealy Mattress Pocket Mirror

Description

Up for bid is an original antique pre-owned
Rare Advertizing Sealy Mattress Pocket Mirror.
Found at an estate sale.
This is a very early Sealy Mattress Pocket Mirror Circa late 1800s to early 1900s.
On the back it has the words “Health Rest is the Best for Beauty’s Sake”
that circles around “Sleep on a Sealy Mattress”.
Measures about 4 7/8” long by 2 ½” wide.
In good condition for its age; some dents in the metal.
The bevel mirror is intact, but has some scratches.
The Sealy Mattress has been doing business since its inception in 1881 when Daniel Haynes, a cotton gin builder, began making cotton filled mattresses for his friends and neighbors.
The town he lived in was Sealy, Texas, just outside of Houston.  The mattresses that Haynes was making were so well received that he began to get more requests as the word spread.  As he continued to make the mattresses he patented a few inventions used in their manufacturing, and in 1889 Haynes patented a machine that compressed cotton for use in the mattresses.  As the reputation and orders for his mattresses spread further from the immediate area, the mattresses began to be known as the ‘mattresses from Sealy’.
In 1906 Daniel Haynes sold the patents and manufacturing know how to another Texas company that retained the Sealy name.  An ad exec for the company, Earl Edwards, took the company to a national scale and came up with the slogan that “Sleeping on a Sealy was like sleeping on a cloud”.  Sealy mattresses became a phenomenon and continue to grow by licensing 23 plants (franchises essentially) across the United States.
A very rare piece to find.
I could not find another one like it.
P
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