Melvin's Vegetable Pills, Fishing Mishap - 6 Victorian Trade Cards
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Set of 6 cards with golden backgrounds, a tale of misadventure in fishing, with captions in French language. At top of each card: "Send us the Outside Wrapper of either of our Medicines, and you will receive a beautiful set of Placques, Dr. J. Melvin Co., Woburn, Mass.
1. La peche adoucit les moeurs. Three boys fishing, wearing oriental-style straw hats.
2. Ca mord! Their lines are tangled. Right edge and bottom corner chipped.
3. No caption. One large fish caught on 3 lines.
4. Ni a l'une ni a l'autre. Chaos, fishermen falling and flailing. Right edge 1/4-inch chipped and missing.
5. Je l'aurai! Fishermen under water.
6. Vous m'y reprendrez a pecher avec vous. Drenched fishermen back on shore, minus hats and poles. Right edge 1/4-inch chipped and missing; diagonal crease across lower right corner.
Advertising on backs in 2 different styles for Melvin's Vegetable Pills, Nerve Liniment, and Cough Syrup. Testimonials from R.W. Husted, Treasurer of Boston University, Nov. 24, 1880; William Shaw, South Lawrence; C.P. Searle, Boston; A.B. Cook, Nashua, N.H. Dec. 10, 1880. "Every bottle warranted as represented. Weeks & Potter, Sole Agents, Boston, Mass."
Cards measure 4-3/8 by 3 inches overall. Slight surface wear on face sides; light yellowing from glue residue on backs. Some damage to edges of 3 cards as noted in descriptions of individual cards.
Each item is an original card from a late-nineteenth century scrapbook. The image, printed by color lithography, is a chromolithograph, or "chromo."
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