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Your Price: $ 19.98
Item Number: QU1118A1-2006 |
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This unusual lot consists two matted pieces of quack medicine and movie cowboy history. First is a reprint of an original 1923 magazine ad [printed on heavy matte finish photo paper, matted for framing] for RENULIFE Violet Ray endorsed by TOM MIX, Movie Cowboy. "Tom Mix uses Renulife..Do You, Too, Want Health and Strength? Renulife Electric Co. from Detroit, Michigan.
The second piece is an early artwork-illustration (see photo below) for the 1922 Patent Document [Matted For Framing] for Renulife Violet Ray Electrotherapeutic Apparatus. The so-called "field of electrotherapeutics", which has often been reduced to little more than "modern quackery," is represented here.
Your patent artwork will include the actual number and date of the patent. The ad itself is from a 1923 Popular Mechanics Magazine. Each image fits a 5" x 7" matte opening.
The wonderful reproduction of the original patent graphic is crisply printed on luxurious Ivory Parchment Paper.
Each includes a white acid-free matte and is ready for insertion into a standard 8" x 10" frame for hanging. Graphic areas each fit the 5"x7" opening.
A complimetary collectible pair that showed the need for well-loved cowboy's endorsement of a "questionable" system. Some history of Tom Mix is far below...
This pair will make a VERY unusual and welcomed gift for the collector and lover of Modern Quackery or to go along with a Violet Ray system itself that many collect as antique medical devices.
Also, included are the remaining pages of the Patent Document printed on 20# white bond paper to complete the Patent information for the collector.
Images included here are low-quality for quick loading on the net with SAMPLE written across, which will not be on your print.
All Patent Information has been reproduced from the USPTO documents.
=============================================== Some Tom Mix History from accomics . com: Tom Mix was the first of the colorful, escapist motion picture cowboys.
He was also the most successful. It is hard to measure that success by today's standards. At the peak of his motion picture career he was paid in excess of $17,000.00 per week, a sum greater than any other salary earned by a Western star. Consider that at this point in history, circa 1920, the average hourly wage was 30 or 40 cents. Movie theater tickets were a nickle or a dime. This was before income tax. Tom Mix made millions for every studio that contracted him. He was one of the most popular men in the country loved by children and adults alike. His juvenile fan club boasted two million members.
His film career spanned 25 years from 1910 to 1935. During that time he starred in between 300 and 400 films. An exact number is not known as few of his films exist today. Many of them have deteriorated and others were disposed of by the studios. Regardless of the precise count, Tom Mix's film output was phenomenal. ===========================================
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