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Burdock Blood Bitters & Dr. Thomas' Electric Oil. ND (ca. 1890s-1900s). Quartet of Advertising Trade

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Drugstore/Apothecary/Pharmaceutical Start Price:20.00 USD Estimated At:40.00 - 70.00 USD
Burdock Blood Bitters & Dr. Thomas' Electric Oil. ND (ca. 1890s-1900s). Quartet of Advertising Trade
SOLD
60.00USD+ buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2020 Oct 05 @ 17:53UTC-4 : AST/EDT
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Glascow, PA. Lot includes four different colorful advertising trade cards, all in uniform style, size, and printed at the same printer. Two cards advertise Burdock Blood Bitters. Images of cats on 2 of the cards. Over a century ago, there was a social movement, led predominantly by women and priests, to ban alcohol for sale in any public venue. The temperance movement eventually created prohibition and something less commonly talked about, temperance drinks. These are beverages, disguised as therapeutic medicines that contain very high amounts of alcohol. BurdockÕs Blood Bitters had almost twenty percent alcohol. The two other cards advertise Dr. Thomas' Electric Oil, which was a widely used pain relief remedy which was sold in Canada and the United States as a patent medicine from the 1850s into the early twentieth century. Like many patent medicines, it was advertised as a unique cure-all, but mostly contained common ingredients such as turpentine and camphor oil. An odd and rare quartet. VF-XF.