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Victorian Trade Card Vermifuge Worm Cure Girl On Suitcase 1890s Advertising

American vintage

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  • $ 1000


This is an original antique Victorian trade card or advertising lithographed card featuring a girl in a velvet suit sitting on a suitcase advertising a cure for worms.  

The back of the card has testimonials for The Only genuine McLane's Vermifuge, prepared by Flaming Brothers, Pittsburgh, PA purporting to cure children of worms.

The testimonials date to the 1880s when such quack medicine was very popular.

The trade card measures 4.15 inches high by 3.15 inches wide and is in very good +++ used antique condition with general mild darkening.

The trade card is in an archival sleeve that we have added.

date: 1880-1900