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Blackburn's Casca Royal Pills

 I hoped this would be my second acquisition, but I failed to wake up to put in the killer bid - not uncommon.

There's another one sale June 2001- poor condition and empty, but worth a try. It went for a crazy $27 - I think that's more than the one in the photo, complete and in good condition.

(2nd July 2002)
I've got one at last, and only $5. Empty, but excellent condition and I have a free sample of those lovely pink pills from the Mentho Laxine below.
Blackburn's Casca Royal Pills
Blackburn's Casca Royal Pills
This is an advertising postcard for the Casca Pills.
(19th July 2001)

This one I would really like, but I expect I will be outbid.

1923 BLACKBURN'S ALMANAC MEDICAL QUACKERY

YOU ARE BIDDING ON A 1923 BLACKBURN'S ALMANAC. BLACKBURN'S PURE MEDICINES--SERVE MANKIND. PUBLISHED YEARLY BY THE BLACKBURN PRODUCTS COMPANY--DAYTON, OHIO. THERE ARE ZODIAC SIGNS AND MANY STORIES OF MEDICAL CURES, THAT TO ME ARE PURE MEDICAL QUACKERY. THERE IS A MONTHLY CALENDAR ALMANAC. THERE ARE 33 PAGES FULL OF ADVERTISING AND PICTURES AND LOTS OF READING.

I actually managed to buy this one. It is a quite bizarre read.

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(13th May 2001)
Blackburn's Compound Essence - Mentho Laxine. Makes one pint of laxative cough syrup by The Blackburn Products Co., Dayton, Ohio. Complete in box with instructions.

But I did win this one. The bottle arrived on May 29th. It contains, wonderfully, free samples of the pink pills plus a small tube of something unpleasant and probably meant for the nether regions. But I still want that tin.

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(27th Dec May 2001)
Mentho Laxene Blackburn Products Dayton Ohio
This is a lot of 5 Mentho Laxene cork top bottles for your bid consideration. This is new old stock at its best. Nice clean labeled clear cork top medicine bottles for your collection or display. Photos tell the story of the quality these pieces, try to find them in better condition. Label claims "To make one pint laxative cough syrup..." Nice clean perfect bottles, good original corks and labels and all 5 of them are embossed on the sides "Mentho Laxene B. P. Co." (on both side panels).

(22nd May 2001)
Blackburn's Cadomene Tablets
Here we have an old pill bottle made of wood. The label is pretty fragile. These tablets were distributed by The Blackburn Products Co. Dayton Ohio. I don't know much about it, but the pics show condition well. It measures 3 1/2 inches tall.

This one too, but I still mourn those pink tablets.

Arrived 4th June.

o

(12th June 2001)
SULPHERB
An unopened container of Sulpherb. Trade (Albert's) Mark. A compound of Herbs Sulphur and Cream of Tarter. A Laxative, Tonic, Alternative Medicine. Price 60 cents The Blackburn Products Co., Dayton, Ohio. Printing goes on to tell everything it should be taken for, the ingredients and the dosage. There is a wooden tube under the paper wrapper and I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't an insert inside the tube as well. Excellent condition and completely readable. Dimensions are 3 in. long by 1 1/4 in across.

Sorry about the picture - if I win the auction I'll improve it.

(19th July 2001)
And here's another product from the Blackburn stable on sale from an excellent-sounding fellow:

FULL Bottle Box & Contents SU-THOL & Adv

Hello dear bidders! - If you follow my auctions ....you may remember that just about a year ago ....I purchased a very large collection of Antique Pharmacy items from the “Poor’s” Drug Store in Maine. Well..... incredibly .... I found myself in the right place at the right time.....and have managed to do it again!!!
This amazing collection comes from “Lalime’s Drugstore ” located in Waterville, Maine. For many years .... Lalime’s supplied the local folks with Patent Medicine .. Homeopathic herbs & Quack cure galore!
Once ‘cured’ ...customers could stop back in for an Ice Cream Soda or a Lemon Phosphate.
The Drugstore is long gone... but the contents were sold off by a local auction house ....and I was fortunate enough to attend .

(19th July 2001)
The form in the middle picture above is an invitation to send 10 cents for a copy of Health and Beauty. And here it is.

Health and Beauty 1924
Lewis Baker 1924 Revised Ed Paperback Fair. 24mo, 133, Small paperbound. Covers are worn. Largely a sequence of pharmaceutical formulas which purport to address specific bodily ailments, a small portion of the end of the text, pp. 117-28, promoting the products of Baker's firm, The Blackburn Products. Fifth Edition, Revised.

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I managed to buy this one too. It looks as though Blackburn and Baker were the driving force behind all these cures. This book is also hip-deep in homespun philosophy of the sort which puts my teeth on edge.



(17th May 2009)
Patricia Hilborn has kindly sent me from Texas another edition of Health and Beauty which contains alternative Blackburn ads. Click to enlarge (in the 10 years since I started this, the space allocation has increased enormously, it's a shame the early restrictions forced small images).

Thanks Patricia

(3rd Dec 2001)
and all these items will be on sale in..

two vintage matchbooks from new philadelphia, ohio. one for bob's place, the other for blackburn drug store. no matches.

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