For sale is vintage RAMON’S TONIC REGULATOR APOTHECARY TIN from the Brown Manufacturing Co, New York and Greeneville, TN. Featured on the the lid is graphic of an elderly man with the text: “Purely Vegetable – Strength – Will Keep in any Climate.” On the tin’s front panel is the text: “Ramon’s Tonic Regulator – Specific Remedy For All Diseases Arising From a Disordered or Torpid Liver” The tin’s side panel has the text: “Ramon’s Tonic Regulator is a Purely Vegetable Liver Medicine – Price 25¢ – 5 for $1.00.” The back panel has the text: “Ramon’s Tonic Regulator Gives Quick Relief in Liver Complaint, Biliousness, Dyspepsia, Bilious, Headache, Costiveness, Sour Stomach, and Indigestion – It Acts Directly on the Kidneys Relieving Pains in the Back and Affections of the Bladder – A Good Tonic for General Debility.” The tin measures 2 1/2 inches tall, 1 3/4 inches wide, and 2 inches deep. Yellow lithographic tin is in overall good condition with a few spots of minor rust and paint loss. A great collectible apothecary tin.
This company is better known for selling Ramon’s Pink Pills, also known as “Ramon’s the Little Doctor”, which was a laxative sold in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s. The slogan for the product was “The Little Doctor Brings Happy Days”. This tin predates this product line. The company started selling Ramon’s Tonic Regulator around 1898 and tin for sale probably dates to the early 1900s.
