1897 C I HOOD LOWELL MEDICINE ADVERTISING " HOOD'S SPELLING SCHOOL" other GAMES

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ANTIQUE HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA advertising featuring the "SPELLING SCHOOL" & OTHER GAMES. This company is well known for their variety of Hood's advertising puzzles and calendars but this is a rare and different learning game that was offered . EXCELLENT CONDITION. Box measures 4 1/2" square. Dated 1879. LOWELL , MASS. No damage. The box is full and appears to be complete. A LITTLE HISTORY of this GREAT COMPANY: Founded by Charles Ira Hood in 1875, C.I. Hood & Co. of Lowell, Massachusetts was among the largest patent medicine companies in the United States and offered a number of personal health products in addition to its well known Hood’s Sarsaparilla. The C.I. Hood and Company was a leader in the development of color lithography as an advertising tool, and produced all of its advertising in-house and owned twenty presses issuing a plethora of colorful trade cards, posters, calendars, cookbooks, pamphlets, and other ephemera all promoting the medicinal benefits of company products.
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