November Online Auction (Sale #336)
Lot 483:
The Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company
Kickapoo Indian Remedies Embossed Tin Litho Sign
Having a chromolithograph depiction of a stereotypical young female within a gold-tone painted raised geometric circular border, centering the impressed gold-tone advertising text, retaining traces of black paint that served as background to the lettering and metal flanges used in mounting, embossed mark reading ‘Pat.Jan.18.91 / Rodwell MFG. Co. / Buffalo, N.Y.’ upper left of image, behind glass in a wood frame
Property from: a Private Collector, Urbandale, Iowa
Height: 22 inches, Width: 11 3/4 inches (metal sheet without extended mounting flanges)
Frame Size: 26 inches by 15 inches
Condition: overall moderate to heavy wear, image having light wear, discoloration and possible small spots of inpainting, metal sheet having loss to lower corner, straightened bent corners, near total loss of black paint background, losses to gold-tone paint upper corners and edge, occasional scratches and scuffs, the mounting flanges likely remnants of trimmed edges once bent back around support board, frame having light wear
Disclaimers: not examined out of the frame
Category: Collectibles > Advertising
Estimated Sale Time: 3:22 pm CST
Shipping Status:
Shipping Quote
Last modified: October 30, 2025, 9:57 am
Condition report:
overall moderate to heavy wear, image having light wear, discoloration and possible small spots of inpainting, metal sheet having loss to lower corner, straightened bent corners, near total loss of black paint background, losses to gold-tone paint upper corners and edge, occasional scratches and scuffs, the mounting flanges likely remnants of trimmed edges once bent back around support board, frame having light wear
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