Sunday Historical Website & Online Store is Live

   Sunday Historical now has a website complete with online store and quick shopping cart! The website is still under construction, but should be functional enough to navigate. Please check out the Sunday Historical  website and leave your comments here on this blog or email them to sundayhistorical@gmail.com. There is still a great deal of work to be done, but I decided to make it live now. No time like the present you know. The online store has about 24 items at this writing, but more will be added daily. Below are just a couple items that are on the website store.

New in box

                                                                 

union case

           

see baby Moses in the basket

UNION CASE, MOSES AMONG THE BULRUSHES
MANUFACTURED IN FLORENCE, MASS BY LITTLEFIELD, PARSON & CO.
BROWN THERMOPLASTIC CASE WITH DAGUERREOTYPE OF LADY
FRONT OF CASE CHIPPED OFF OF HINGE, HINGE SLIDES OUT, SOME CHIPS AROUND INSIDE EDGE
CASE IMAGES AND PHOTO LOOK GOOD
CASE MEASURES 2 3/16"  X 2 5/8"
I USED MICROSCOPE MODE ON A SEVERAL OF THE PHOTOS TO CAPTURE THE CASE MOLD OF BABY MOSES SCENE

A brief history of Littlefield, Parson & Co. below:

From 1856 to 1865, the business of Littlefield, Parson & Co. gave employment to from 75 to 199 hands. Very great success attended the business after the first two or three years, particularly the manufacture of the union cases. The demand for these goods was so great that during a considerable part of the time the factory was run to its utmost capacity, night and day, producing daily 89 to 150 dozen cases. Although this case was a beautiful article, and ranked high in market, its great success was due quite as much to the extraordinary demand which existed at that time for cases of some sort, and if this company had manufactured any other variety its success would have been inevitable.


Thanks for your support, Laura