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Salesman's sample products used by Albert Desmore Fuggle on Vancouver Island. Used to sell bowties. Information assembled by previous Collections Manager Delphine Castle:

• In order for manufacturers to reach more distant points manufacturers' agents were generally used and often interested retailers in their goods by catalogue and traveling salesmen.. The agents may or may not travel, but in this case, although working for a firm in Victoria in which he was a partner, Albert Desmore Fuggle traveled around Vancouver Island to interest retailers in a variety of dry goods including bow and neck ties. He also carried samples of socks, shirts and other men's clothing.
• The earliest notice we have of Albert Fuggle is when he worked for the large Victoria merchant firm of Turner Beeton in the 1930s.
• In 1940 he joined with a partner to form Fuggle and Christopher wholesale dry goods with premise at 617 ½ Comorant Street, Victoria.
• His career as a salesman was to end during World War II. No longer able to obtain silk ties, as all silk was needed for parachute making, the firm suffered and finally went out of business.
• These sample cards date from 1941.