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MEDICINE - ANTIKAMNIA CALENDARS The Antikamnia Calendar, for 1897[-1901], 5 vol. [complete set], St. Louis, The Antikamnia Chemical Company, 1896-[1900] image 1
MEDICINE - ANTIKAMNIA CALENDARS The Antikamnia Calendar, for 1897[-1901], 5 vol. [complete set], St. Louis, The Antikamnia Chemical Company, 1896-[1900] image 2
MEDICINE - ANTIKAMNIA CALENDARS The Antikamnia Calendar, for 1897[-1901], 5 vol. [complete set], St. Louis, The Antikamnia Chemical Company, 1896-[1900] image 3
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MEDICINE - ANTIKAMNIA CALENDARS
The Antikamnia Calendar, for 1897[-1901], 5 vol. [complete set], St. Louis, The Antikamnia Chemical Company, 1896-[1900]

14 June 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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MEDICINE - ANTIKAMNIA CALENDARS

The Antikamnia Calendar, for 1897[-1901], 5 vol. [complete set], 30 chromolithographed sheets (1897-1900 containing 6 sheets of 2 months each, 1901 having 4 sheets of 3 months each), each with pair of punch holes and ties at upper margin (a few loose), 4to (255 x 175mm.), St. Louis, The Antikamnia Chemical Company, 1896-[1900]

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Complete set of the celebrated 'Antikamnia Calendars', issued as publicity material for the St. Louis chemical and drugs company. Each chromolithographed caricature plate, executed by Dr. Louis Crusius, depicts a skeleton figure (or figures) in a variety of guises (lawyer, feeding baby, doting parents, numismatics collector, bedside doctor, female cyclist, dandy, vagabond, clown, cowboy, banjo minstrel, etc.).

Provenance: Dr. W.B. Davies, Llandrindod Wells, Wales. Included in the lot are two envelopes addressed to Davies on Antikamnia Chemical Co. printed labels (with with additional label advertising their codeine tablets "for all nerve pain"), each with St. Louis postmark. Presumably this is William Bowen-Davies (1847-1908), founder of the Llandrindod Wells Hospital in 1880.

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