To introduce our Solid Yukon Silverware into every home In the land and to prove our claim in that it is the most beautiful and durable table flatware made, we will give away a SOLID YUKON SILVER SUGAR SHELL FREE to every lady sending us her name and address. Yukon Silver is one of the most remarkable products of the 20th Century, and in unquestionably superior to anything heretofore produced for the manufacture of knives, forks and spoons. Practically it is BETTER THAN STERLING SILVER and costs only one-sixth as much. Same color, harder, will wear longer and not tarnish as quickly. It is the same beautiful metal through and through–no plating to wear off, is as bright and lustrous as burnished coin silver, and is WARRANTED FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS.
Our Remarkably Liberal Offer– Send name and address on blank below, and we will send you, postpaid, a Solid Yukon Silver Sugar Shell, either pattern you select, absolutely free of charge. To give you an opportunity to procure a set of our Solid Yukon Silver Teaspoons, also without a cent of expense to you, we are willing to send a set of six teaspoons to match along with the Sugar Shell. Secure orders for two sets like them and the sample Set of Teaspoons as well as the Sugar Shell will be yours without costing you a cent. If you fail to sell two sets, return the sample set at your expense (you pay postage) and keep Sugar Shell as a gift for making the effort.
WE WANT NO MONEY IN ADVANCE but will ship you the goods and give you 30 days to collect and remit. You can get orders among your friends and neighbors in only a few minutes to earn the sample set. We will also send you a catalogue of our Yukon Silverware and book of handsome premiums for large orders. Send to-day, before you forget It.
TEASPOONS TO MATCH PER SET OF SIX Beaded Pattern, $ .95 Tipped Pattern, $ .95 Shell Pattern $.95, Viola Pattern $1.15
REMEMBER you don't have to ask your friends or neighbors for money in advance. WE SHIP THE GOODS AND GIVE YOU 30 DAYS TO REMIT. A fairer offer could not be made. If you fail in your effort to get orders you have a beautiful Sugar Shell worth 50 cents for simply trying.
These illustrations are one-half actual size.
RAYMOND MANUFACTURING CO., Muncie, Ind. Dept N-6.
As per terms of your offer, send me postpaid, one pattern Solid Yukon Silver Sugar Shell, and a set of teaspoons to match. I agree to try faithfully to sell at least two sets of teaspoons like those you send me, provided you send me the goods without any money In advance, and give me 30 days to collect and remit. If I fail to secure these orders, I agree to return the sample set of teaspoons by mail, postpaid, within 30 days after receiving them and keep the Sugar Shell as a gift.
A 1977 advertisement from Quaker Oats in conjunction with the Co-operative Society offering Silver Jubilee spoons in return of tokens from 'Quick Quaker Oats' and 'Sugar Puffs':
HALL'S JOURNAL OF HEALTH - EAGLE GOLD & SILVER PLATING Co.
A 1878 advertisement from Hall's Journal of Health offering coin silver plated flatware from the Eagle Gold & Silver Plating Co. following subscription to their journal:
A 1911 advertisement from the Jefferson Publishing Co. offering an Oxford sugar shell in the Narcissus pattern made by the Rogers Company to readers of Watson's Magazine:
Jefferson Publishing Co./Rogers Company - Thomson, Georgia - 1911
Interesting to see the Mother's Oats Ad. By the 1920's they had moved on to including semi-vitreous china pieces (made by Homer Laughlin) in their packages. One ad shows you could redeem a coupon for larger serving pieces. By late 30's, they included a solid colored ware called Carnival (also H/L made but unmarked). A company official indicated that a coupon for larger pieces was included for this, but apparently no evidence has surfaced as to what. Your ad, together with the 1920's one, tends to give credence to his remark in that this Quaker Oats subsidiary brand had a long established history of by-mail redemption.
Got anything on Larkin Soap Company using silverware for premiums? Demi-spoons exist with no maker mark and undated. And they too, shifted to chinaware premiums, so much as to open the Buffalo Pottery Co. (later Buffalo China).
The National Cigarette and Tobacco Company have launched a new scheme in the interest of 'High Admiral' cigarettes. With each box of 500 'High Admirals’ goes a card of fifty pieces of jewellery, scarf-pins, sleeve and collar buttons, watch charms, etc., one of which is to be given "with each five-cent package. ‘The jewellery is, according to the explanation on the card, of a secret composition, and will wear as well as gold or silver.’ Seemingly these premiums are worth more than the price of the cigarettes.
