All Cats Are Legends

          Corti has arrived!
                          

The famous cat from the Corticelli Silk Thread Company or Belding Corticelli. Advertisements, a thread box, etc. As cute as Chessie! The Corticelli Silk Company began in Massachusetts in the 1890's, producing a full range of beautiful silk embroidery threads. In 1922, the Nonotuck Silk Company merged with the Brainerd and Armstrong Company to form the Corticelli Silk Company; ten years later, the Corticelli Silk Company merged with the Belding-Hemingway Company. The company's logo, the "Corticellie Kitten," Corti, became synomymous with quality silk threads. It's sign at 42nd Street and Broadway in New York City, from 1910 to 1913 was one of the earliest ads on the Great White Way. For more information about the silk industry in New England, go to the Northhampton Silk Project, http://www.smith.edu/hsc/silk/home.html Interesting!!

	"36 First Prizes"  Corticelli  Silk Ad  reproduction   print     from orgianal ad (framed, 10"X14") $35		"Corticelli Silk"  orginal advertisement       from Harper's magazine 1900's (framed, 8"X10") $35
	"Corticelli Spool Silk" $35 original advertisement from Harper's magazine 1900's $35		Corticelli Purse Twist Thread for chocheted purse patterns $45 NEW!
	Corticelli Silk Ad Mirror 1936 $35 NEW!		Corticelli Mending Silk $12 NEW!
	Corticelli Darning Cotton with multi-colored thread $25 NEW!		Corticelli Spool Silk Case, with all three drawers filled with multi-colored thread, all Corticelli spools Mahagony wood 1930's $450 NEW!