Remembering the happy Heroin days
South Africa’s Museum of Branding, Advertising and Packaging, currently residing on the free-to-view www.brandmuseum.co.za, has added a dozen or so examples of pharmaceutical products from the late 1800s and early 1900s which would raise more than a few eyebrows were they to make it to our shelves today.
The products, several of which were regarded as suitable for children, brazenly feature ingredients that are outlawed in today’s medicine. “Opium” and “cocaine” (or “coca” as it was commonly known) feature in the brand names, and ruddy-cheeked children illustrate several of the packs. Read more »
Mr Bok Playing Cards?
These pics were sent to us by a lady wanting to know if anybody has any info of when they were in use and when Bok Polish existed.
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