Antique 1910s Formaline Pharmacy Label AKA Formaldehyde to cure your throat? ✨ shield_monogram_design the orange and blue —

the orange and blue — faithfully shrunk down and printed in tin on a toy that once sold for pocket change is genuinely charming

Government Supervision — phrasing that was

Bright tin-litho novelties poured out toward American dime stores and carnival midways

🏫 Use it as a classroom or library display piece for lessons on the Vietnam War era and the history of American protest

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Antique 1910s Formaline Pharmacy Label AKA Formaldehyde to cure your throat? ✨ shield_monogram_design the orange and blue —Would You Really Dissolve Formaldehyde on Your Tongue? The Astonishing Victorian Cure That Somehow Worked and the Wilmslow Chemist Who Made It Famous There is a moment, every time I hold one of these little labels, where I have to stop and just marvel at the audacity of it. A tiny cream and brown card, no bigger than a visiting card, printed in rich maroon letterpress ink, coolly instructing you to place a tablet containing formalin dry formaldehyde