Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg & Vancouver: The Central Agency Ltd, n.d. 8vo. 13 cards of thread samples - spool cotton, darning cotton, strandsheen, pearl cotton, crochet cotton, knitting cotton, wool plaits, bias binding, mending wool, mercer-crochet. Also includes ads and product information. Black cloth hardcover with gold print and tie with black cord. A few small white marks on front cover. Ink signatures on front paste-down endpaper. Some mild wear or pulling to samples inside. Pencil notations on "Mending Wool Plaits" card.
These cards list J. & P. Coats as well as Clark's as manufacturers names. J. & P. are James and Peter Coats who produced thread in Scotland from 1830 onwards. The Clark name stretches back even further to 1755 when James and Patrick Clark began a loom equipment and silk thread business in Paisley, Scotland. In 1806 Patrick Clark invented a way of twisting cotton threads together to substitute for silk threads which were unavailable from France during the Napoleonic Wars. These companies merged in 1952.