HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA RAINY DAY PUZZLE [and] HOOD'S BALLOON PUZZLE: Printed on both sides of puzzle pieces, glazed & framed

by Hood's Sarsaparilla

Original

Price: $185.00
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Book desription: Lowell, MA: C.I. Hood, 1891. Original. not bound. Very Good. Consists of 34 pieces; tips of two pieces scuffed. This attractive item, ready for display in a vintage frame and two-sided glass, is among the earliest advertising puzzles. Side One is a full-color view of a dapper salesman in a two-horse carriage which is labeled "Hood's Sarsaparilla/Pure Blood - 100 Doses, One Dollar." A kindly gent with umbrella waves as the carriage passes, uttering "That's the Medicine I Take." In the background is a view of a large, brick structure with a roof sign: "Hood's Sarsaparilla Laboratory, C.I. Hood & Co., Proprietors." A barn is painted in yellow letters: "Get Hood's and Only Hood's." The other side of the jigsaw puzzle is a scene in blue on white. At left, a hot-air balloon ascends: "100 Doses - One Dollar" is painted in giant letters on the balloon. At right, a family gazes at the balloon while exclaiming: "Look! Look! There is a Balloon Telling about Hood's Sarsaparilla." Painted on the sides of a barn: "Be Sure to get Hood's" and "Hood's Sarsaparilla Makes the Weak Strong." In the foreground, a crude sign proclaims: "For That Tired Feeling Take Hood's Sarsaparilla - Peculiar to Itself - 100 Doses, One Dollar." At upper right is a scroll: "As up we raise Our wandering gaze, 'Twixt earth and sky Goes floating by The great balloon; Its motto tells How cheaply sells Man's greatest boon-- Hood's Sarsaparilla." 10.5" x 15".

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