Patent Medicine
medicine, patent medicine, advertising, illustration art, Leonetto Cappiell
Paris: Le Thermogene, c1900. A collection of three items (in French) advertising 'Le Thermogene' a patent medicine product that was meant to help with a variety of ailments such as coughing, bronchitis, flue, sore throat, colds, joint pains, and rheumatism. The product was a heating pad that was composed of.....
Price: $150.00
Animals in Marketing, Patent Medicine, Guaranteed Cures and Panaceas
Springfield, Missouri: [Frank W. Diemer, M.D], 1880s? Illustrated advertising card for "Dr. Diemer's Prescription for the Cure of Men and Women", with a cockfighting motif on the front. Pricing on verso along with claims of the product being a "guaranteed cure" for all diseases. Chromolithographed card measures 2.5" by 3.75".....
Price: $150.00
Patent Medicine Advertising,Family Medicines,Rebus,Die-cut
Washington, D.C: Ogram Chemical Co, c1890. A color-illustrated advertisement for Wier's Lemon Seltzer, marketed as a cure for headache, dyspepsia, nervousness, indigestion, and brain fatigue. The bifolium has been die-cut and illustrated to depict an anthropomorphic lemon "before" and "after" taking the seltzer. Inside is a sales pitch for the.....
Price: $250.00
Tulips, Flowers in Advertising, Patent Medicine
Foxcraft, Maine: 1890s. Printed advertisement for "Balm of Tulips" cold sore remedy and patent medicine, promoted by H.A. Robinson, D.D.S., of Foxcraft, Maine. Appears to be used as an insert for a newspaper, or small handbill. Includes illustration of lips and large tulip. Measures approx. 4" by 4.5", verso blank.....
Price: $175.00
Advertising to Women,Interpretation of Dreams,Family Medicines
Buffalo, New York: Dr. V.M. Pierce, c.1930. A charming "Dream Book" issued as a marketing promotion for family medicines sold by Dr. Pierce, as well as his "Invalids Hotel" for ailing patients in Buffalo, New York. Includes a section on dream interpretation ("VIOLETS. In season, success; out of season, lawsuits.").....
Price: $200.00
Patent Medicine Advertising,Pulmonary Diseases,Family Medicines
Boston, Massachusetts: Thomas Hollis, Druggist, 1860s. A printed advert for "Hollies' Balm of America", a patent medicine marketed as a "cure" for pulmonary afflictions including bronchitis, asthma, coughs, and colds. Measures approx. 7" by 8", verso blank.
Price: $150.00
Botanicals, Business Cards, Mail-Order Medicine
[Delta, Ohio]: Samuel Bell Finney, c1900. Printed business card (2.25" by 3.75", verso blank) for Samuel Bell Finney (1833-1925), an Ohio doctor who "treats all diseased by correspondence" and has "over 25 years experience in botanic medicine". Finney provided diagnoses and medicine by post, which turned out to be an.....
Price: $150.00
Patent Medicine, Advertising Premiums, Traditional Costumes of the World
Elkhart, Indiana: The Dr. Miles Medical Co., c.1890. A set of three (3) chromolithographed premiums advertising the Dr. Miles Medical Co. as a part of the company's "Costumes of the Nations" advertising campaign. Each premium depicts a different traditional world costume; these three examples are titled "Dutch Woman", "Swede", and.....
Price: $150.00
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Chromolithography, Almanacs
New York, New York: A.H. Flanders, M.D., 1871. A particularly well-preserved example of a Victorian almanac published for the purpose of advertising patent medicine: in this case, Rush's remedies for everything from coughs to scrofula. Also included in the contents are: tide tables, eclipses, and phases of the moon for.....
Price: $175.00
Patent Medicine, Printed Labels, Truth in Advertising
Macon, Georgia: L.A. Thomas Drug Co., c.1900. A remarkably well-preserved and unused printed bottle label for "Den-Gay", a fever remedy produced by the L.A. Thomas Drug Co. Includes directions for use, as well as a price (50 cents) and a photo of Thomas. Measures approx. 4" by 2"; verso blank.....
Price: $125.00
Double Transformation,Family Medicine,Patent Medicine,Cod Liver Oil,Dietary and Health Supplements
N.pl: N.p, 1880s. A scarce example of a "double transformation". Unlike traditional transformations, which only transform one image, this example can change two separate images (front and back) depending on whether the top flap is folded to the front of back. A clever example of humor in marketing. The products.....
Price: $250.00
Children as Advertising Pawns, Patent Medicine, Dr. Miles, Paper Dolls
Elkhart In. Dr. Miles Medical Co., 1902. A 20 3/4" tall die-cut easel back paper doll depicting Dorothy (Dolly) Quincy holding a bottle of Dr. Miles Restorative Nervine. The reverse introduces Dolly,the future wife of John Hancock and of course promoting the various Dr. Miles with brief narratives and a......
Price: $350.00
Family Medicine, Remedies and Cures
St. Louis, Missouri: Luyties Pharmacal Company, 1920s. A booklet for families advertising homeopathic tablets sold by the Luyties Pharmacal Company as treatments or remedies for over forty (40) afflictions ranging from appendicitis to whooping cough. Descriptions of each affliction's symptoms and dangers are included along with which tablet to use.....
Price: $100.00
Patent Medicines, Marketing, Dream Analysis, Etiquette, Laugh and Grow Fat
Baltimore, Maryland: Kohler Manufacturing Co., c.1890. Four (4) pocket-sized booklets in original illustrated wrappers, published together as a clever "collect-them-all"-type marketing scheme advertising Kohler Remedies. The booklets contained everything from jokes to dream symbols. The titles include: "Forget-Me-Not Rhymes". Baltimore: Kohler Manufacturing Co., c.1890. 32mo (5.25" by 3.25"), pp. [8].....
Price: $225.00
Patent Medicine,Venereal Disease and STIs,Sexual Health
New York, New York: Civiale Remedial Agency, c.1880. A booklet advertising quack/dubious remedies for "Sexual and Urinary Diseases" sold by the patent medicine manufacturer Civiale Remedial Agency in the 1880s. True to the times, it begins with a sensational lament of promiscuity in the country's youths and its effects on.....
Price: $200.00
Patent Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland: Friedenwald, Lith. c.1877. Pamphlet advertising patent medicine sold by Baltimore-based doctor C.W. Benson, claiming to treat or cure everything from headaches, neuralgia, and "nervousness" to insomnia and skin diseases. Contains testimonials as well as references and brief descriptions of the characteristics of each affliction. Slim 12mo (5.75" by.....
Price: $135.00
Trade cards, Chromolithography, Patent Medicine, truth in Advertising
Boston, Massachusetts: Holman Liver Pad Co., c.1876. Illustrated trade card for Holman Liver Pad Co., advertising its liver-regulating pads and its Boston location, at which "A Lady competent to instruct and advise is in attendance at the Ladies reception room" (recto). Liver pads were a patent medicine tied to one's.....
Price: $200.00
Bitters, Rheumatism, Liver and Kidney Diseases
Attleboro, Massachusetts: James M. Solomon, Jr., 1890s. Illustrated advertising card for "Old Doctor Jas. M. Solomon's Indian Wine Bitters", which claims here to be "The Greatest Blood Purifier and Liver and Kidney Cure in the World". Promoted by James M. Solomon, Jr., "The seventh son of Old Dr. James M......
Price: $150.00
Remedies, Medicine, Advertising and Promotion
1884. 24 pp. Illustrated wrap with image of R. C. Flower on the front cover and "Hygeia of the 19th Cent" on reverse. A free to the public narrative introducing the company, the science in the preparation and skillful combinations. This is followed by detailed information on each of the.....
Price: $60.00
remedy,cancer cure,hydrophobia,rabies
A 10" x 6" page that appears to have been removed from a ledger or journal with two entries that appear to be in different hands. The first is a cure for hydrophobia that entails mixing elecampane root, a puff of madder and a quart of new milk brought to.....
Price: $110.00
Advertising & Promotion, Advertising to Children, Patent Medicine, J. C. Ayer
Lowell, Mass: J. C Ayer & Co., 1880s. Four (4) different miniature stand-up die-cuts of various Ayre's products. The image of the box on front and product advertising--essentially miniature trade cards that could have been displayed on a toy store or dollhouse shelf. Scarce items. The largest is 2 1/2".....
Price: $125.00
Almanacs, Family Medicine, Consumption, Rheumatism
Chicago, Illinois: H. Scovil, 1870. The Northwestern Family Medical Almanac, advertising "Family Medicines" by H. Scovil of Chicago. Includes: Astronomical Calculations for the year 1870; monthly calendars with "Hints to the Farmer and Housewife"; advertisements for various cures and treatments. The January entry includes an interesting section titled "Judgments of.....
Price: $125.00
Patent Medicines, Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, History of Photography in Ephemera
Providence, Rhode Island: Salisbury, Bro. & Co., c1866. Printed trade card with applied photographic image advertising Dr. Bicknell's Great Cholera Remedy, with an interesting inclusion: pasted to the recto is a (very Victorian, and slightly morbid) photographic reproduction of "Columbia's Grief", an artwork depicting the allegorical Columbia weeping over Abraham.....
Price: $175.00
patent medicine, advertise, advertisement, advertising, anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic, rat, lab rat
Paris, France: Dec-53. An advertising postcard for a patent medicine called Penityrol. It was a synthetic antibiotics created to help combat diseases that are transmitted through the air or to help minimize the possibility of an infection after a surgery. What makes this advertisement extremely charming are the anthropomorphic lab.....
Price: $65.00