Category Archives: Advertising

Trade Cards, Advertising, Signs, Broadsides, Crates, Letterheads, Billheads, etc.

Warner’s Log Cabin Remedies

A very nice example of a Warner’s Log Cabin Scalpine came up on eBay the other day. The pictures were rather nice and are posted below. The description on eBay was as follows: Here’s the one all Warner’s & Hair … Continue reading

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St. Nicholas Stomach Bitters – Gentry & Otis – New, York

St. Nicholas Stomach Bitters – Gentry & Otis – New, York 20 June 2012 (R•052814) (R•102318) My friend and Civil War medicine authority Jim Schmidt (visit Civil War Medicine (and writing) found this great advertisement for St. Nicholas Stomach Bitters … Continue reading

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From Texas – Wm. Radam’s Microbe Killer

I developed a post yesterday on the wonderful graphics and associated material related to Hunts Remedy from Providence, Rhode Island. (Read: Fighting Skeleton and Beating off Death – Hunt’s Remedy). The symbolic skeleton, scythe, hour glass and patient using a bottle of Hunt’s … Continue reading

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Fighting Skeleton and Beating off Death – Hunt’s Remedy

One of the really great advertising graphics that you will find relating to medicines, cures and the bottles that we collect is the Hunt’s Remedy. The symbolic skeleton, scythe, hour glass and patient using a bottle of Hunt’s Remedy to … Continue reading

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A selection of Medical Almanacs

A selection of Medical Almanacs 10 June 2012 I came across Rulon – Miller Books in St. Paul, Minneasota while looking for some information on a post I am developing. Within their site are some really wonderful Almanacs related to … Continue reading

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Dr. Harter’s Wild Cherry Bitters and the Bottle Gods

Dr. Harter’s Wild Cherry Bitters and the Bottle Gods 10 June 2012 (R•021514 Playing Cards added) (R•032214 Marriage Puzzle Card added) (R•111817 Top image added from AGG) (R•101018) (R•060320-H 51) Dennis Humphrey posted the following pictures over on the Peachridge … Continue reading

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The Crookes’s Neck

The Crookes’s Neck Crookes’s Invigorating Aromatic Vegetable Stomach Bitters 07 June 2012 (R•120314) Posted on eBay now you will see a wonderful example of a Crookes’s Stomach Bitters from New Orleans. The seller, who has provided some nice pictures, is turnitup38 … Continue reading

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Lester E. Gibb’s Bone Liniment

“A cure liniment for external use only: For Skin Inflammations, Soreness, Eye Inflammation, Frost bit, Weeping Sinews, Burns, Cancer Humors, Chilblains, Rheumatic Affections, Itching, Ring Worm, Facial shaving Injuries, Strained Cords etc.” This post is prompted by Connecticut collector and … Continue reading

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A letter for Davenport’s Celebrated Jaundice Bitters?

A letter for Davenport’s Celebrated Jaundice Bitters? 26 May 2012 Ferd – Thought you would like the attached 1849 letter I recently added to my collection…from George Dixon in Dedham, Mass. to William Potter in South Dartmouth, Mass. He is … Continue reading

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Handsome Young Man in Uniform (Civil War?) with Fish Bottle

An important advertising card sold on eBay last evening for a surprisingly healthy $787.77 which shows the strong demand for pieces relating to the great bottles we collect. In this case it was a ‘Handsome Young Man in Uniform (Civil … Continue reading

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