Antique pharmaceutical box "Cervollet Cream"

A small, round, lithographed tin box for Cervollet Cream, a pharmaceutical product advertised to prevent head colds and promote the healing of coryza. The lid features a refined typographic design on a cream background, with an ornamental cartouche and the price including postage. The reverse side specifies the shipping details from Niort, reflecting the practices of direct mail sales during the Belle Époque.

✦ Origin: France, Niort (Deux-Sèvres)
✦ Estimated period: Circa 1895-1905
✦ Dimensions: Diameter 4 cm x Height 1.5 cm
✦ Material: Lithographed sheet metal
✦ Condition: Good used condition, slight oxidation and wear visible on the edges, decoration and inscriptions clearly legible

Belle Époque pharmaceutical box with an ENT theme, appreciated for its sober and authentic design and its testimony to popular medical treatments at the turn of the 20th century, ideal for an antique pharmacy collection or cabinet of curiosities.