[CIVIL WAR] [CARTOON]

The “Union” Pill in operation / working on the quack [notions ?, partly obscured by a. glue stain] / [of] Dr. Davis & Co. [caption title in pencil below a small engraved cartoon]

Np: nd [1861 ?]. Engraved cartoon on a slip of paper, 3 1/8 x 3 1/8 inches, mounted at the corners on a slightly larger piece of brown paper. The cartoon pictures a cannon ball bursting through a medicine shelf sending two bottles (with faces, arms, and legs) scuttling away, one labeled “Confederated Mixture,” the other “Davis Lotion”; a third bottle, labeled “Secession Pills” has taken a direct hit from the cannon ball (labeled “Union”), knocking it over, with pills spilling lost lid. Small glue stains in each corner from mounting (one corner chipped, with loss of a short word, perhaps “of”]. Item #70149

Price: $75.00