WW1 Period British Pharmaceutical Home Front Bile Beans Empty Tin
Code: 12956
SOLD
For sale is an original WW1 Period British Pharmaceutical Home Front Collectable that dates from the 1900s to early 1920s. This period pharmaceutical collectable is an WW1 Period British Pharmaceutical & Food Produce Home Front Empty Bile Beans For Biliousness Tin.
Bile Beans was a laxative and tonic first marketed in the 1890s. The product supposedly contained substances extracted from a hitherto unknown vegetable source by a fictitious chemist known as Charles Forde. In the early years Bile Beans were marketed as "Charles Forde's Bile Beans for Biliousness", and sales relied heavily on newspaper advertisements. Among other cure-all claims, Bile Beans promised to "disperse unwanted fat" and "purify and enrich the blood". Bile beans was manufactured between 1890s which came to an end in the late 1930s, this tin dates to the early 1910s.
This empty tub of Bile beans is in good condition, which makes it perfect for a 1900 to 1920s British wartime home front and military Pharmaceutical, medical and groceries displays, reinactors and collectors! This is guaranteed an original 1900 to 1920s British home front collectable!
This will be sent via Royal Mail 1st class signed for and dispatched within 2 working days. This will be sent as a small parcel as it needs to be padded with extra protection to survive the post! Please check my eBay for more great British wartime home front collectables! Also happy to do deals on multiple orders.
