Antique 1910s In-Step Foot Remedy Free Sample Tin In-Step Laboratory Wayne NY Small Apothecary Medicine Tin 2.5 Inch 🥫 circus_collectible A companion label from the

A companion label from the firm's Banquet Hall brand

a young collector getting their start

The scrollwork flourishes at the far corners of the horizontal band

and they were produced in the same years and often by the same printing houses that produced the great German-American Halloween postcards and decorations that command serious collector attention today

manufactured by Edgar Brick & Sons of Crosswicks

Antique 1910s In-Step Foot Remedy Free Sample Tin In-Step Laboratory Wayne NY Small Apothecary Medicine Tin 2.5 Inch 🥫 circus_collectible A companion label from theWhat Fits in the Palm of Your Hand and Holds a Hundred Years of American Life? There is a particular kind of stillness that comes over you when you pick up a tin this small. It weighs almost nothing, and yet it doesn't feel nothing. It feels dense the way a river stone feels dense after a century of water has worked it smooth. This little round sample tin from the In Step Laboratory of Wayne, New York is barely an inch across. It sits on a fingertip.