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I collect a number of different medical and
dental items. Areas of special interest in the dental field are:
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 Dental Postcards
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Dental Trade Cards
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Breath Perfume Containers, especially brass Cachou
Boxes
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Dental Tokens including counterstamps, shell
cards, Civil War, Condor, unofficial farthings, etc.
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Dental Containers, especially early tins for
tooth powder
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 Dental Advertising Pocket Mirrors
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Dental Medallions
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Early Dental Photographs
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Patent Medicine Almanacs that advertise a
dental product
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Multiple-Advertising, Printed-to-Private-Order
Postal Stationery with dental advertisements
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Items may be from any country.
In the medical field (to include dental,
pharmacy, veterinary, podiatry, optometry, etc.):
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Advertising Facsimile Bank Notes
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Quack Galvanic Batteries
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| Medical Cameos (usually embossed) on covers, billheads
and trade cards
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Patent Medicine Tokens
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Like many other collectors, I often buy related
medical and dental antiques which pique my interest. For instance, in the postcard and trade card
field, I collect cards associated with the following subjects:
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Monaural Stethoscopes
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Ear Trumpets
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Gout
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Early Venereal Disease Treatment, especially having to do
with Salvarsan (606)
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Enema Syringes and Devices
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Podiatry and Treatment of Corns and Bunions
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Early Surgical Instrument Manufacturers
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Veterinary Dentistry
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The Eye
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Additionally, I am interested in several specific
individuals and their companies:
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E.S. Wells, Newark, New Jersey, proprietor of
Rough-on-Rats
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J. Hodge, Secretary, the Merchant's Gargling
Oil Company, Lockport, New York
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E. Taylor & Co., Rochester, New York, proprietor of
Dr. Locock's Pulmonic Wafers and Jew David's or Hebrew Plaster
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I would enjoy hearing from collectors with like
interests. I would also be pleased to put your want list on file.
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