Merchant's Gargling Oil [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Merchant's Gargling Oil [inscribed]

Alternative title

New Shoe Store

Date Created

[between 1865 and 1893?]

Date

1865/1893

Place of Origin

Buffalo (N.Y.)

Publisher

Gies & Co.

Language

English

Collection

Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

Notes

Description

The front of the card has a portrait of a brown horse's head, framed by a large horseshoe which reads, "Merchant's Gargling Oil. A Liniment for Man & Beast." The verso of the card consists of text advertising a shoe store, and includes a price list for eight kinds of "solid leather" shoes for men, women and children.

Caption

Additional text on front of card: Manufactured at Lockport N.Y., by M.G.O. Co., and sold by all druggists. John Hodge, Sec'y.
Partial card text from verso: New Shoe Store, Chas. L. Swartz & Co., No. 6 South Pearl Street, Albany, First Shoe Store below State Street. [price list follows] All of the above Goods are Solid Leather. No Prison Work....
Text on front of card: First introduced, 1833. Merchant's Gargling Oil is the standard Liniment of the United States, and is good for Burns, Scalds, Rheumatism, Flesh Wounds, Sprains, Bruises, Lame Back, Hemorrhoids or Piles, Toothache, Sore Throat, Chilblains, Chapped Hands, and many other diseases incident to man and beast. Yellow Wrapper for animal, and white for human flesh.

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card, color)

Dimensions

12 x 7.9 cm.

Keywords

Names

Merchant's Gargling Oil Company
Merchant, George W. (George Washington), 1807-1867
Hodge, John, d. 1895

Location

United States

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Boots and shoes--Marketing
Oils--therapeutic use--Advertisements
Horses
Animal Diseases--drug therapy--Advertisements
Veterinary therapeutics
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Horseshoes
Liniments--Advertisements
Patent medicines
Liniments--therapeutic use--Advertisements