Description

About Antique Pond’s Bitters Advertising Postcard

This antique Pond’s Bitters advertising postcard from the early 1900s offers a fascinating glimpse into the golden age of patent medicine marketing. The front features bold typography and a detailed illustration of the Pond’s Bitters bottle, alongside claims to cure constipation, headache, indigestion, biliousness, malaria, and dyspepsia.

The card also promotes other Pond’s products, including Pond’s Ginger Brandy, Pond’s Gin-Ger-Gin, and Pond’s Rock and Rye with Horehound. Issued by the Pond’s Bitters Co., 721–723 Fulton St., Chicago, Illinois, this piece stands as both a historical curiosity and a collectible example of early advertising.

Product Features:

• Era: Early 1900s

• Theme: Advertising / Patent Medicine / Health Remedies

• Design: Black print on tan stock with detailed bottle illustration

• Condition: Good vintage condition with light handling wear

• Collectible Appeal: Medicine history, vintage advertising, Chicago business memorabilia

Perfect for collectors of:

• Antique advertising ephemera

• Patent medicine collectibles

• Early 20th-century business history

• Chicago memorabilia