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Lot 606
Sale 1095 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography, Featuring Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana & Historical Documents
Day 1 Lots 1-403
Nov 3, 2022
10:00AM ET
Day 2 Lots 404-634
Nov 4, 2022
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$500 -
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$438
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Lot Description
[MEDICINE]. E.F. Davis Botanic Physician. [Brattleboro, VT], ca 1850. Hand-painted tin trade sign.
Visible 16 1/2 x 12 in. hand-painted tin trade sign (some loss to paint, surface scratches, minor bends to metal); framed to 18 1/4 x 13 5/8 in. (not examined out of framed).
A hand-painted trade sign advertising the medical services of E.F. Davis. Newspaper advertisements for the "Botanic Physician" appear in several 1850 issues of The Brattleboro' Eagle where he touts "Genuine Botanic Medicines constantly on hand and for sale" at his location at "Rooms at Geo. Bugbee's No. 7 Elliot street, opposite the 'Water-Cure Establishment.'"
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents