Vintage Flood's Ointment Tin 🏥 NOS 1950s Beggs, Oklahoma Medicine Collectible — Burns, Felons & More American Made vintage_advertising_label not a lesser cousin of

not a lesser cousin of the real thing

a wooden cutting board

and that a household product named after a heroic abstraction will outlast a household product named after its primary function

the cattle drives were winding down

where the mantling detail and the shield chevrons required precise registration across multiple passes

Vintage Flood's Ointment Tin 🏥 NOS 1950s Beggs, Oklahoma Medicine Collectible — Burns, Felons & More American Made vintage_advertising_label not a lesser cousin ofWhat Did D. A. Flood of Beggs, Oklahoma Know That We've Forgotten? There is a particular kind of stillness that comes over you when you hold something this old and this small and this utterly complete. A tin no bigger than a silver dollar, barely deep enough to hold a thumbnail's worth of salve, and yet it contains an entire world a town's quiet ambition, a pharmacist's lifetime of work, a moment in American domestic medicine that has not existed for