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Best.-Nr. SW476-7380 — mostly American mostly early-to-mid nineteenth century. Ephemera. Very Good. A group of 20 it includes: Antique Tin Drefs' Mandrake Compound Liver Pills. Albany New York: Burdick & Son c. 1916. Yellow tin printed in black 48mm diameter. Manufactured by Burdick and Son. Top reads: "New Style Box Adopted July 1 1916 / Drefs' / Mandrake Compound / Liver Pills / Price 35 cents -- 40 Pills / 3 Boxes for $1.00 / Prepared for / Charles A. Drefs / Manufacturing Chemist / 280 Broadway / Buffalo N. Y." Bottom reads: "Dose / One Pill at Night When Required / Cannot Be Given to Children." 3 tins just a little scratched but overall bright and fine. They don't make 'em like this anymore. /// Admiral Dewey. The Maine Gold Eyed Sharps. 5/10. America c. 1950s. Two small folded packs 22 x 42mm of Maine Gold Eyed Sharps illustrated in full-color on the front with a small portrait of Admiral Dewey his ship and an eagle. Needles are preserved in black and gold paper with a printed star pattern with another banner on the inside reading: "Our easy threading parabola gold ey'd needles are warranted to excel all other brands in Finish and Quality the Eyes are Beveled and Gauged thereby making sewing much easier. Best in the World." A nice specimen of the era's typographic and packaging design. Illustration lightly chipped along the edges on one of the packets otherwise in excellent condition. /// Rodi Drawing-Pins. Germany early-to-mid 1900s. Sliding matchbox-style box of tacks 39 x 53mm. Printed in red green and blue it boasts "Pin will not pass through the head." Box a little faded and very faintly stained with just 3 pins left. /// Tin Box "Pick A Pin" New York: M. M. Oganesoff early-to-mid 1900s. Oval tin box 64mm at its greatest diameter 45mm tall with printed label and a hole in the top. Press down on the lid and a pin pops up! Tin a bit dust-soiled and darkened but functions just fine. /// Tin of Leather Polish: Columbus Russet Leather Polishing Paste. New York: Columbus Polish Corporation early-to-mid 1900s. Circular orange tin 75mm diameter illustration and lettering printed in black. Tin manufactured by Burdick and Son of Albany New York. A bit dusty and rusty. /// Dennison's Wire Shanks AND Gem Paper Fasteners. Framingham Mass. / New York: Dinnison Mfg. Co. / Cushman & Denison mid-1900s. Sliding matchbox-style box 22 x 40mm with blue and white label on the top. An elegant little item nicely presenting the typography of the time and full of shanks. SOLD WITH a small brown cardboard box 48 x 55mm printed and illustrated in black of Gem Paper fasteners. Top lid of box is broken but it's full of fasteners. Mad Men office supplies! /// M. K. I. Compact of Pink Blush. Baltimore MD: M. Ki. I. Co. c. 1950. Circular green compact 49mm diameter lettering and decoration in gilt; contains a block of bright pink blush and a small puff. /// Johnson & Johnson's Zonas Adhesive Plaster. New Brunswick NJ: Johnson & Johnson c. 1950s. Small tubular red white and blue tin; 25mm diameter 33 mm tall. A pretty little tin just a little scratched and now containing beads. /// Cuticura Ointment. Malden Mass.: Potter Dry & Chemical Corp. c. 1950. Small round silver tin label printed in red and black 40mm diameter. A little scratched otherwise fine. /// Vintage Tin of Recoton Melograph Needles. Switzerland early-to-mid 1900s. Small green tin with flip-top lid lettering "Melograph Recoton Laubschik" and musical notes printed in gold on the top. Gold paper seal printed in red is open but the box is nearly full. A few tiny scratches otherwise in excellent condition -- and quite uncommon. The Melograph similar to the Melodiograph is a mechanical apparatus for ethnomusicological transcription usually producing some sort of graph that can be preserved and filed similar to a recording of music. /// Agfa Plenachrome Film for Memo Camera. Binghamton NY: Agfa Ansco Corporation 1935. Small cardboard box 31 x 31 x 35mm printed in red yellow blue and white; and containing film cartridge. Someone has pencilled "shot" on the inside top of the box. Manufacturer's stamps on the bottom indicate the date. In excellent condition with a sticker for the National Recovery Association on the back. /// Y & S Licorice Wafers for Coughs Due to Colds -- Enjoyed by Smokers. Brooklyn NY / Moline IL / Philadelphia PA: National Licorice Company early-to-mid 1900s. Small tin 15 x 35 x 54 mm with flip-top lid orange printed in black. A little scratched but an interesting memento from the hey-days of tobacco even courting the consumer with an ad on the underside of the lid "Also comforting for smokers' irritated throats." /// Tintograph Color Box. Small circular tin 40mm diameter purple with "Tintograph Color Box" printed in black on the top. A little scratched but pretty. /// Sample Size Lava Chemical Resolvent Soap. St. Louis: Wm. Waltke & Co. early 1900s. Small cardstock box 20 x 40 x 58 mm printed in red pink and black; and containing an old sample of Lava Soap. /// Dill Super Seal Valve Insides. America early-to-mid 1950s. Small tin with sliding top 27 x 27 mm printed in orange blue and white. A bit scratched and difficult to open but contains 4 valves. /// Gold Compact Mirror with image of the Arthur Murray Dancers on the top. Gold compact mirror 70 x 70 mm with b/w photograph of Arthur Murray Dancers 4 couples doing the waltz on the top opens up to a mirror with engraved gold door housing a puff beneath it. Elegant. unknown books