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10-C Maine Antique Digest, April 2015
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Purity Ice Cream tray, lithographed
tin, 13¼" x 10½", minor wear, $948.75.
Moxie counter display, litho-
graphed tin, the die-cut figure
showing the Moxie Boy cre-
ated by the product’s market-
ing genius Frank Archer, per-
forated but never bent over
the tray as intended, 11¾"
high overall, tray 6" diame-
ter, a few creases to the figure,
faint hazy spots to the tray,
$833.75.
Breyer’s Ice Cream door
push, porcelain, 8 5/8" x
3¾", chipping along the
outer edges, $977.50.
Drake’s Palmetto Wine match
holder, lithographed tin, promoting
a quack medicine product and pic-
turing a duck, 4 7/8" high x 3 3/8"
wide, minor wear and pinching, wear
to the drugstore lettering on the bas-
ket, $862.50.
Promotional brochure for Cocabacco
Company’s Cocarettes, cigarettes with
a blend of cocaine and tobacco, 5 3/4"
x 3 1/8" (closed), minor toning to inside
pages, $138.
Patent model nursing
cup, hand-soldered tin,
3" high, original 1868 tags issued by the
U.S. Patent Office, $1121.25.
Fire Escape sign with a pointing finger, porcelain over steel,
4" x 18", light chipping, $690.
H.P. Hood & Sons Milk
dairy sign, embossed
lithographed tin, 11 1/8"
diameter, minor soiling
and wear, $1121.25.
Mounds candy bar sign, embossed lithographed tin,
1930s, 6¾" x 19 5/8", like new and unused, $603.75.
Salesman’s display for
Pennzoil motor oil, 8½"
high x 6½" wide, excellent
overall condition, $747.50.
The metal stand holds four
tubes containing differ-
ent viscosities of oil,
and the upper part of
the display flips over,
allowing a valve
inside each tube to
drop through the oil.
Cedar Hill spice
tin for ginger,
Hassendeubel
Grocery Company,
St. Louis, Missouri,
lithographed tin,
the graphic on both
sides, 1½ ounces,
3 1/8" high, faint
soiling on the back,
$1322.50.
Darkey Five Pins game by Milton Bradley, five die-cut cardboard men
holding watermelons, each attached to a wooden block, plus a wooden ball
and pin, with the original box, excellent condition, $603.75.
Ledger marker adver-
tising A. Raymond &
Company, a New York
men’s clothier, two-
sided lithographed tin,
with the image from the
painting
Adam and Eve
by Jean-Baptiste San-
terre and advertising
text on the back, 12" x
3 1/8", bright, $920.
Box for Interwoven War-Service
Socks, 4" x 14" x 1½", minor soil-
ing and toning, $80.50.
Hot Ball Tobacco door push,
embossed and lithographed
tin, 8" x 3", with an early
baseball on the product pack-
age held by a devil-like figure,
light denting, minor wear,
nail hole at the top, $1322.50.
Brookfield Rye whiskey sign depicting
a seminude woman, self-framed lith-
ographed tin, 33" x 23", light wear to
border, $3565.