Today’s piece of ephemera is a postcard-sized advertisement from the J.F. Davis Drug Company, distributors of Johnston’s Dull Kote Paint, located at 518-520 Second Street, Portsmouth, Ohio. When we think paint we don’t often remember that the compounding expertise of pharmacists were essential to creating color matching paint in a uniform manner.
The back of the advertisement informs the potential customer that within the tiny wax-sealed envelope are more seals that can be used for their correspondence.
