For sale is a vintage 1930s WILLIAMS ANTI-PAIN OINTMENT TIN by the Standard Medical Company. This cool sample size tin was made to distribute samples of an anti-pain medication during the 1930s. The lithographic lid features a picture of the product’s box and a jar of salve. The ointment was sold as a medicine to provide “A Prompt Relief for Colds in the Head and Chest, Rheumatic and Neurologic Pains”. The product was sold for 50 cents. The tin measures about 1 and 1/4 inch diameter and is 5/16 inch deep. A rare collectible apothecary tin.
During the 1920s, William D. Davis and Charles E. McGinley incorporated the Standard Medical Company. The company not only survived the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, was successful until until the mid-1990s. Their claim-to-fame was their Williams’ Anti-Pain ointment, which was akin to Icy Hot or Ben Gay but according to many of its users was a thousand times better.
