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  2. Card stock - Wikipedia

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    Card stock, also called cover stock and pasteboard, is paper that is thicker and more durable than normal writing and printing paper, but thinner and more flexible than other forms of paperboard. Card stock is often used for business cards , postcards , playing cards , catalogue covers, scrapbooking , and other applications requiring more ...

  3. Trade card - Wikipedia

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    Trade card. A trade card is a square or rectangular card that is small, but bigger than the modern visiting card, and is exchanged in social circles, that a business distributes to clients and potential customers, as a kind of business card. Trade cards first became popular at the end of the 17th century in Paris, Lyon and London.

  4. Business card - Wikipedia

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    A Oscar Friedheim card cutting and scoring machine from 1889, capable of producing up to 100,000 visiting and business cards a day. Business cards are cards bearing business information about a company or individual. [1] [2] They are shared during formal introductions as a convenience and a memory aid.

  5. Laid paper - Wikipedia

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    Laid paper is a type of paper having a ribbed texture imparted by the manufacturing process. In the pre-mechanical period of European papermaking (from the 12th century into the 19th century), laid paper was the predominant kind of paper produced. Its use, however, diminished in the 19th century, when it was largely supplanted by wove paper. [1]

  6. Ticker tape - Wikipedia

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    Ticker tape. Ticker tape was the earliest electrical dedicated financial communications medium, transmitting stock price information over telegraph lines, in use from around 1870 through 1970. It consisted of a paper strip that ran through a machine called a stock ticker, which printed abbreviated company names as alphabetic symbols followed by ...

  7. Cabinet card - Wikipedia

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    Card stock. 1866–1880: square, lightweight mount; 1880–1890: square, heavy weight card stock; 1890s: scalloped edges; Card colours. 1866–1880: thin, light weight card stock in white, off white or light cream; white and light colours were used in later years, but generally on heavier card stock; 1880–1890: different colours for face and ...