Small paper trade card for Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer; front: chromolithograph of a young girl in white dress and long hair walking through a meadow; back: usual declaration about their Hair Renewer and Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers.
Small paper trade card for Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer; front: chromolithograph of a young girl in white dress and long hair walking through a meadow; back: usual declaration about their Hair Renewer and Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Purchased by Dr. Chiong for his patent medicine collection, before July 15, 1995.
Front: "HALL'S // VEGETABLE // SICILIAN // HAIR RENEWER // Improves the growth // and restores // the youthful color // and beauty of the // HAIR."; back: "HALL'S // Vegetable Sicilian // HAIR RENEWER // was the first preparation perfectly adapted to cure dis- // eases of the scalp, and the first successful restorer of // faded or gray hair to its natural color, growth, and // youthful beauty ..."; etc.
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-G Chiong Trade Cards Binder D
Unit Of Measure
centimeters
Dimension Notes
Length: 11.2 cm. x Width: 7.6 cm.
Condition Remarks
Slight age/sun discolouration; bottom and top edges are cut a little short; front: edges are a little worn; some lines across the figure
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Book
Reference Comments
"The Snake-Oil Syndrome" by A. Walker Bingham, p. 74, insert #22 (exact picture)