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Keepable trade card

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Define

A small card people keep (pretty, useful, or collectible) that carries the brand after the encounter.

Mechanism

Retention object. The gift is the media. Recall is paid for by usefulness or delight, not by repetition.

Verdict

We can put a physical or digital keepable in someone's pocket and they will not throw it away.

Don't

The card is junk the day after. A flyer that is not kept is just a flyer.

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Rights-cleared examples

A-Corn Salve 'knocks the toe corn' trade card

A-Corn Salve 'knocks the toe corn' trade card

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Acorn Stoves and Ranges trade card (front)

Acorn Stoves and Ranges trade card (front)

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Advert for Lydia E. Pinkham's "Vegetable Compound" to be used for all female complaints, showing a young girl wearing a red hat

Advert for Lydia E. Pinkham's "Vegetable Compound" to be used for all female complaints, showing a young girl wearing a red hat

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American Extra Soap trade card

American Extra Soap trade card

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An old trade card (George Inn, Southwark)

An old trade card (George Inn, Southwark)

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Arbuckle Bros. (3093003361)

Arbuckle Bros. (3093003361)

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B. T. Babbitt's Best Soap and 1776 Powder trade card

B. T. Babbitt's Best Soap and 1776 Powder trade card

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Bartlett's blacking, bluing and stove polish 'Afghan warriors' trade card

Bartlett's blacking, bluing and stove polish 'Afghan warriors' trade card

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Burdock Blood Bitters trade card

Burdock Blood Bitters trade card

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C.I. Hood and Co. (2922694690)

C.I. Hood and Co. (2922694690)

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C.I. Hood and Co. (Apothecaries) (3093650698)

C.I. Hood and Co. (Apothecaries) (3093650698)

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C.I. Hood and Co. (Apothecaries) (3093747676)

C.I. Hood and Co. (Apothecaries) (3093747676)

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