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iamshadow21:

/o Didn’t mean for you to get given such a hard time for a poster.

I mean, sure, it smells like smoke, but it comes by it honestly. All Australian eucalyptus burnt in my fireplace, not from toking up.

Oh god, no, it’s not your fault. They do this to me with every package I get, regardless of what it is. It didn’t smell at all! I was just like, this is a poster tube, what the FUCK do you think is inside? 

Also, way too light to be packed with anything actually solid.

Hope you like it, anyway. It’s a print of an actual poster, not a mock-up. The guy who financed the mine that found that nugget went into patent medicine, and every time they reprinted the ads/posters they added a bunch more it supposedly cured. Apparently the main ingredient was actually valerian, so, not completely bogus and useful for some minor things, but certainly not the cure-all it was marketed as. Even then, people knew it was rubbish – when he tried his hand at politics, he was openly mocked for it by his peers. The State Library has an article and a picture of one of the original posters from their collection HERE.

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