Chas. Rippe, Manufacturer of Tents, Flags, Paulins, and Festooning, Wagon and Stack Covers
Chas. Rippe, St. Louis, MO: 1890
6" x 3.5", 32 pp, in original stapled wrappers. Illustrated price list from this St. Louis manufacturer of tents, flags, awnings, bunting, and related products. Small stain at outer margin of front wrapper, else fine. In 1876, Charles Rippe joined the existing tent and manufacturing firm of Martin Zittlosen (founded in 1866), and by 1882 Rippe appears to have been running the company on his own. In a short introduction, he acknowledges that this catalogue "is not as showy as that issued by my competitors," but promises "plain figures and low prices" as well as high quality materials. Products offered include both U.S. and foreign flags, flagpoles, photographers' tents, stable tents, circus tents, miners' tents, haystack covers, wagon covers and umbrellas, tarpaulins for covering agricultural equipment, window and door awnings, "the best paper festoonng ever offered," and more.
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