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This bottle is influenced by a real historical bottle.

The advertising of patent medicines began at the same time as the creation of the public sphere, in which newspapers first became available and read in the new phenomena of coffee houses. In fact the early marketing of early medicines through their ‘letters patent’ (royal approval) fueled the circulation of early papers. Many advertising and sales techniques were pioneered by patent medicine promoters. To keep patent medicines in the early public sphere, they began to use distinctive bottle shapes, with exotic and esoteric names to increase public attention to the product and its many claims to ‘cure all’ ailments.

Handcast from handmade mold, taken from 18th and 19th century medicine bottles. Mounted on a wooden plaque.

Occult Lozenges Bottle Plaque

$40.00Price
  • Handcast from handmade mold, based upon historical originals. Mounted on a wooden plaque.

    Plaque Size: 5” x 7.25”

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