Candy Colored Vintage Salesman Sample Pill Capsules Encased Under Film, S.E. Messengill Co. lined notebook with two old hand-forged steel

with two old hand-forged steel strikers and a piece of flint that was definitely used for sparking them housed in a vintage wooden La Tropical Jamaican cigar box

one split in the wood of the roof on one side presenting no issues

there feels something powerfully true and tender about the convergence of naivete and brutality in drawings like this--and one can feel the catharsis of pent up energy and aggression being released through the process of making it

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Candy Colored Vintage Salesman Sample Pill Capsules Encased Under Film, S.E. Messengill Co. lined notebook with two old hand-forged steelThese candy colored capsules are all the prettier in person really quite seductive! With a thin sheet over clear film adhered over the top of them, sealing them forever inside, and enhancing their bright and shiny sort of appeal. This sample box was produced by the S. E. Messengill Co. of Bristol, Tenn. (founded 1898). In 1937, the company became infamous for "the elixir sulfanilamide disaster," described as one of the most consequential mass