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These whimsical bottles might once have held the noxious nostrums of the patent medicine trend. Now, they're pretty on a window sill. Patent medicines were hawked in the 17th to 19th centuries, often by travelling salesmen (the real-world counterpart of the Wizard of Oz was a seller of patent medicines). The advertising for these substances formed the beginning of marketing and branding as a science. Called "snake oil salesmen," the purveyors of patent medicines would often attribute their curative powers to the alchemy of the Far East. Were they motivated by cultural appropriation and cheap exoticism? Yes, indeed -- but a historic moment in American advertising nonetheless! And it's a great example of the ways Western culture...

Set of 3 Victorian Glassware

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Some bottles arranged by me at a Vide Grenier sale in France.

for all of the antique glassware fans out there <3