PRODUCT DESCRIPTION :
Lovely antique wooden pine box circa early 1900's.
This box is rare and is still showing some good and relatively clear stamped advertising.
Still useable this box will make for a great display statement pretty much anywhere.
Most likely used for the carrying and transport of glass bottles that contained the ' Blood Purifier ' Sulphur Bitters concoction possibly by Dr Kaufamann.
His Sulphur Bitters apparently worked quickly and effectively in curing the most aggravated cases of loss of appetite, dyspepsia, indigestion, dropsy, nausea, that tired and all gone feeling, gout, habitual costiveness, pimples and humor of the face and body, sick headache, scrofula, colds, jaundice, ulcers, catarrh, coughs, colic, piles, kidney complaint, rheumatism, female weakness, biliousness, neuralgia, tape, pin and other worms, dysentery, boils, sore eyes, liver complaint, fever and ague, general debility, faintness of stomach, erysipelas etc. (but not toe itch!)
SIZE : 360mm wide x 260mm high x 260mm deep.
CONDITION : Overall good for age. Some treated borer damage to top edge. Internal staining and usual marks etc consistent with age.
Antique Wooden Pine Advertising Box
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