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Auction archive: Lot number 108

Shaker Medicinal "Asthma Cure" Bottle in Original BoxShaker Medicinal "Asthma Cure" Bottle in Original Box

Estimate
US$200 - US$250
Price realised:
US$2,583
Auction archive: Lot number 108

Shaker Medicinal "Asthma Cure" Bottle in Original BoxShaker Medicinal "Asthma Cure" Bottle in Original Box

Estimate
US$200 - US$250
Price realised:
US$2,583
Beschreibung:

Shaker Medicinal "Asthma Cure" Bottle in Original Box, Mount Lebanon, New York, 19th century, the wooden box covered with polychrome lithographed paper with printed inscriptions: "The Shaker Asthma Cure/For Asthma Only," "Manufactured By the Mount Lebanon Society of Shakers," "Price One Dollar," and the Shaker agent's name "D.C. Brainard," with tin swivel cover opening to a conforming cavity holding a glass bottle with similar applied lithographed labels, a printed paper listing the rules which "should be strictly observed in connection with the Shaker asthma cure," and one with printed testimonials of the cure, box 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. The New Lebanon, New York, Shakers manufactured their Asthma Cure during the 1880s and 1890s. The labels affixed to the wooden box and bottle are the most colorful ever used by the Shakers to market one of their medicines.

Auction archive: Lot number 108
Auction:
Datum:
15 Jun 2014
Auction house:
Bonhams | Skinner
Park Plaza 63
Boston, MA 02116
United States
+1 (0)617 3505400
+1 (0)617 3505429
Beschreibung:

Shaker Medicinal "Asthma Cure" Bottle in Original Box, Mount Lebanon, New York, 19th century, the wooden box covered with polychrome lithographed paper with printed inscriptions: "The Shaker Asthma Cure/For Asthma Only," "Manufactured By the Mount Lebanon Society of Shakers," "Price One Dollar," and the Shaker agent's name "D.C. Brainard," with tin swivel cover opening to a conforming cavity holding a glass bottle with similar applied lithographed labels, a printed paper listing the rules which "should be strictly observed in connection with the Shaker asthma cure," and one with printed testimonials of the cure, box 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. The New Lebanon, New York, Shakers manufactured their Asthma Cure during the 1880s and 1890s. The labels affixed to the wooden box and bottle are the most colorful ever used by the Shakers to market one of their medicines.

Auction archive: Lot number 108
Auction:
Datum:
15 Jun 2014
Auction house:
Bonhams | Skinner
Park Plaza 63
Boston, MA 02116
United States
+1 (0)617 3505400
+1 (0)617 3505429
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