Antique 1910s In-Step Foot Remedy Free Sample Tin In-Step Laboratory Wayne NY Small Apothecary Medicine Tin 2.5 Inch 🥫 circus_collectible waiting to be read

waiting to be read

and they were produced in the same years and often by the same printing houses that produced the great German-American Halloween postcards and decorations that command serious collector attention today

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Antique 1910s In-Step Foot Remedy Free Sample Tin In-Step Laboratory Wayne NY Small Apothecary Medicine Tin 2.5 Inch 🥫 circus_collectible waiting to be readWhat Fits in the Palm of Your Hand and Holds a Hundred Years of American Life? There is a particular kind of stillness that comes over you when you pick up a tin this small. It weighs almost nothing, and yet it doesn't feel nothing. It feels dense the way a river stone feels dense after a century of water has worked it smooth. This little round sample tin from the In Step Laboratory of Wayne, New York is barely an inch across. It sits on a fingertip.