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Apothecary/Drugstore, Patent Medicine/Advertising
McMurray Antiques and Auctions
Presents our absentee mail/phone bid cataloged auction #86 of Patent Medicines, Pills, Tins, Apothecary/Drugstore and Advertising items.
Closing date: Saturday, July 11th, 2026 at 10:00 pm EST
Some of the highlights to include:
Labeled Patent Medicines: Warner’s = Tippecanoe with Early Bitters Label, Warner’s Safe Remedies with Nervine Label, 3 Different Kickapoo Bottles = Indian Oil, Cough Syrup and nice Kickapoo Sagwa Stomach, Liver and Kidney Renovator. Dr. Graves Heart Regulator – Cures Heart Disease, Hart’s Swedish Asthma Cure, White’s Neuralgia Cure, Marsden’s Asiatic Cholera Cure, Dr. Miles’ Nervine, Dr. Boschee’s Syrup, Dr. Jayne’s Carminative Balsam, Dalton’s Sarsaparilla, Dr. Wilcox’s Best Cough SyrupDr. Ordway’s Humor Discovery and Blood Purifier, Osgood’s India Cholagogue, Renne’s Pain Killing Magic Oil, Dr. Harrison’s Cough & Croup Balm, Mrs. Dinsmore’s Cough & Croup Balsam, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters and More!! Many of the above with Original Boxes Also!!!
Tins: Rare, Balm of Figs Uterine Remedy, Montauk Star Brand, Mudlavia – Infallible Cure, Small Size Bowel-Manna, Madam Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower, Keene’s Glad-Pheet Corn Remedy, Mitchell’s Corn & Bunion Plasters, Dr. Thatcher’s Liver Medicine. Nice Selection of Foot Powders and Talcum tins to include: Scholl’s Fixo Foot Powder, Williams Foot Powder, 3 Different sizes = Comfort Powders. Colton’s Cough Drops 5 lb. Store Tin, Group Lots and More!!!
Cylinder Tooth Powder Tins: The Pearl W/Box, Dr. I.W Lyon’s With Box, Dr. E.L. Graves, Superior, Woodbury’s, Sanitol. Other Tooth Tins: Dr. Huff’s, Sozodont Powder, Zahnol Tooth Soap, oval Dr. I.W Lyon’s Tooth Tablets, Figural Cadette tin, Rex-Ton False Teeth Cleanser etc… Labeled Tooth Powder Bottles: Dentomint, Sapo-nol, Thomas & Thompson, Baltimore, Burrill’s Tooth Powder, Lynn, Mass. Martin’s Antiseptic Tooth Powder etc…
Pills: Warner’s Cathartic Pills, Dr. Shoop’s Pink Pain Tablets, Complete Counter Display’s for: DeWitt’s Corn Remedy and Goody’s Headache Powders etc….
Apothecary: Important = Samuel Alcock & Co. Leeches and Honey Jars!! Unusual Small Size Ceramic Drug Jar for = Suppos: Morph ¾ GR. Label Under Glass Jars in Amber, Green and Cobalt Blue, Including Several that Contained OPIUM! Nice set of Wooden Shelf Jars, Wood Pill Counter, Inverted Merck Jars, Devils Head Poison Bottle Corkscrew, The Magnetic Teething Necklace with Box and more!!
Veterinary: Labeled Bottles = Security Rheumatic Liniment, Dr. Claris Kronkine, Pulsifer’s Positive Healer, Cal-Sine Standard Veterinary Distemper, Cough & Heaves Remedy, WM. W. Wells’ Nerve and Bone Liniment, Large Size = Merchant’s Gargling Oil for Horses & Cattle, Dr. A.C Daniels Pileozion, etc……
Packages: Rare, Wilburs = Hoof Packing, Worm Powder and Sure Heave Cure. Capital Stock Food, 3 lb. size International Poultry Food Tonic, B.A Thomas’ Colic Remedy for Horse Colic, Early, Starin’s Renovating Powder, Dr. J.L Steckler’s Powder, Shedd’s Worm Destroying Powder, Fleck’s Lice Powder, 1931 Dr. Daniel’s Calendar, Nice Baum’s Horse & Stock Food Shipping Crate with Great Colorful & Graphic Outside Paper Labels and More!!
Books: 1882 Peter VanSchaack Druggist Catalog, and a nice 1901 Strong, Cobb & Company Druggists’ Sundries Catalog.
Advertising: Signs: 3 Different Warner’s “Tippecanoe” paper signs. Unusual and Rare set of 5 Different Kickapoo Indian Remedies Cardboard signs, Herrick’s Pills and Kid Plasters, Henry & Johnson’s Arnica & Oil Liniment, Down’s Elixer For Colds, Coughs, and Consumption. Complete, 4 Sheet 1901 Antikamnia Calendar. Selection of wood shipping crates and more!!!
For a fully illustrated catalog with color pictures send $15.00 to: McMurray Antiques & Auctions, P.O. Box 393, Kirkwood, N.Y. 13795.
*ENTIRE CATALOG SHOULD BE VIEWABLE ON MY WEBSITE JUNE 25TH*
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