Caroui Tin Store Counter Showcase
Caroui Tin Store Counter Showcase “Caroui, For Women’s Ills, The Woman’ Tonic” printed on tin sign attached to the showcase. Showcase has a glass front 10” x 9-1/2” x 2 to 4-1/2” across. ” A separate 8-1/2 x 2-1/2” Showcase shows front and side panels of 3 boxes, 2 outside panels that contain the product. The company logo is on the side panels, “Wine of Caroui” w/ingredients listed (includes 10% alcohol). Additional writing about “Menstrual Disturbances.” Center panel has information about the product and on the bottom half are directions and a description of the product “Relief for women,” in Spanish. Chattanooga Medicine Company, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Showcase designed and made by The Brunhoff Manufacturing, Cincinnati, Ohio. DATED: 1890s into 1900s.
Gauzets Feminine daintiness Poster
Gauzets “Feminine daintiness” Poster. What gives the appearance of a photograph, shows a tall woman slender woman in a gown, side view, against a white background. Right side has a pink background. In the foreground near the bottom is a blue and white box of Gauzets and a large black circle that says, “The Patented Rubber Underlayer Gives Absolute Protection.” Along the bottom edge are pictures advertising other Rexall products, Hygienic Powder, Hy-Da-Way Fountain Syringe and Puretest Aspirin Tablets. Printed in U.S.A. on light weight cardboard. 22” x 34.” DATE: Post 1926 thru 30s.
Midol Poster
“Midol Poster. Midol relieves ‘Regular’ pain’ features a beautiful young woman with w/short curly reddish brown hair, blue eyes, bright red lips and cheeks, wearing a soft green halter bodice. At the bottom of the poster is a small open tin of Midol pills. Signed lithograph says, “Painted Exclusively for Midol by Lawrence Wilbur.” Reddish brown background compliments her hair color. On heavy cardboard, 35” x 24.”
Sans Oval Ends, The Ideal Napkin Poster
Sans Oval Ends, The Ideal Napkin” Poster. All of the art work combines heavy paint and paper cuts out that have been glued in place to create the details of the picture. Poster features a woman in her bedroom seen from the waist up from the back. She is viewed through her dresser mirror, as she checks out the the back of her hair through her hand mirror. In the foreground is a table w/a large purple box of Sans. Colors primarily in pastel shades of teal and pink with touches of orange, yellow and white print. On heavy cardboard. 12” x 35-1/2.”
Tin Kotex Advertisement Poster
Tin Kotex Advertisement Poster, gray background, across the top in white print is the word “Kotex” and pictures a very serious and empathetic nurse in her white uniform and cap holding a box of Kotex under her arm. The box is blue box w/white lettering. 18” x 12” in wood frame.
