Many thanks, Laurie!

(03-24-2014 10:48 AM)L Verge Wrote:  I have seen an advertisement for it - in the Port Tobacco newspapers of the era - I believe.

Would love to see that!! As for ads, recently I found one of William d'Fleurville's "poetry" advertisements for his Barber's Shop, that appeared in the Sangamo Journal of May 10, 1832. It's on page 7 here: http://www.yumpu.com/en/mobile/view/12032623

(I was amazed once to read-not there-he had already met A. Lincoln in New Salem, is that likely?)

Eva,

Here's the ad for the Atzerodt brothers' carriage shop from the Port Tobacco Times:

http://boothiebarn.com/picture-galleries...ment-1857/

Very cool, Dave, thanks! Wow, 12 months guaranty, I wasn't aware such was common in those days!

(03-24-2014 11:28 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  (I was amazed once to read-not there-he had already met A. Lincoln in New Salem, is that likely?)

Eva, IMO I think it's more legend than fact, but maybe there is proof I have not seen. There is a book on Lincoln's barber - it's titled Billy the Barber’s Mirror: Reflecting on an Untold Lincoln Story and is written by Glennette Tilley Turner - but I do not know if it's been published yet.