Collectible & Estate Auction (Sale #328)

Patent Medicine Advertising Assortment

This auction ended on March 25, 2025.

Start price: $200

Estimated price: $400 - $600

Buyer's Premium: 22%

Sold for: $1,700

Description

Patent Medicine Advertising Assortment

(6) total items, mostly lithographed tin, including an Ayer’s Hair Vigor, a Vegederma ‘Prevents Baldness / Cures Dandruff’, a Dr. W. B. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin and Laxative Compound, a Safety-Kaps Gonorrhea Gleet cure, as well as a painted wood Hick’s Capudine Liquid thermometer; together with a lithographed tin Junket Powder promotional kitchen pot and pan scraper

Property from: an Estate, Decatur, Illinois

Height: 26 inches, Width: 13 inches (largest)

Condition: overall light to moderate wear consistent with normal use, most metal (excepting Junket) having oxidation at edge wear and chips, scratches, abrasions, thermometer having wear at mounting holes, glass intact

Category: Collectibles > Advertising

Estimated Sale Time: 12:47 pm CST

Shipping Status: Shipping Quote

Last modified: March 4, 2025, 2:26 pm


Condition report:

overall light to moderate wear consistent with normal use, most metal (excepting Junket) having oxidation at edge wear and chips, scratches, abrasions, thermometer having wear at mounting holes, glass intact

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