Vintage FIXACO Throat Confection Tin - St. Louis Pharmacy Apothecary Collectible - Antique Cough Drop Advertising Tin 1930s-1940s 🥫 pre_1900s_collectible when the lithography and embossing

when the lithography and embossing art of cigar labels began its long decline

What that means for a collector is that you are looking at an authentic piece of early twentieth-century commercial printing art in all its original color and detail

This is a novelty souvenir badge — a printed tin toy from the great wave of Japanese-made dime-store pins — that happens to carry a beautifully specific local emblem

hand out badges at parades and classroom visits

That they never made it to a bottle is

Vintage FIXACO Throat Confection Tin - St. Louis Pharmacy Apothecary Collectible - Antique Cough Drop Advertising Tin 1930s-1940s 🥫 pre_1900s_collectible when the lithography and embossingWhat Did a Dime Buy You at the Drugstore Counter Before Penicillin? Long before the pharmacy became a wall of foil sealed blister packs, a sore throat sent you to the corner druggist for something small, something sweet, and something that fit in your vest pocket or the bottom of a handbag without anyone the wiser. This little Fixaco tin is exactly that kind of survivor a ten cent "throat confection" that promised to fix a cough, save a singer's