6 SANI-FLUSH Original 1920's Store Signs 8½" x 14" "WORKMAN'S LUNCH 35¢" NOS

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SIX (6) Vintage SANI-FLUSH 10 Cent Store Window Signs 1920's, 8-1/2" x 14"
"NEW OLD STOCK". Genuine and NOT REPRODUCTIONS. SIX FOR ONE BID, FREE SHIPPING
You've seen these in old black & white movies.
These were given to merchants in the 1920's to tape inside the store window.
They could write in the blank space things like "COFFEE 5
¢
" or "WORKMAN'S LUNCH 35
¢"
They measure 8
½" x 14" and are printed on white paper. They are folded in half (
8
½" x 7") and are in perfect condition. Never exposed to light.
NOTE: They are "NEW OLD STOCK". They are Genuine and NOT REPRODUCTIONS.
From Wikipedia:
"Sani-Flush was introduced by the Hygenic Products Company of Chicago, Illinois in 1911 as a toilet bowl cleaner; since 1922 it had also been promoted for flushing "rust, scale and sludge" from automobile radiators. Advertisements from the 1920s onward depicted a housewife in an apron using the product to disinfect the bowl and remove odours; it "cleans closet bowls without scouring" with "no drudgery whatsovever".
Widely stocked in grocery and hardware stores, the product was a well-known household name and occasionally mentioned in children's jokes like "If Santa gets stuck in your chimney, use Santa Flush" and the apocryphal advertising slogan "Sani-Flush, Sani-Flush, cleans your teeth without a brush. All you do is pour it on; one, two, three, your teeth are gone."
A strongly corrosive product, Sani-Flush was kept out of the reach of children as sodium bisulfate mixed with water produces sulphuric acid. Mixing Sani-Flush (as acid) with a caustic alkaline drain cleaner (such as Drano or Liquid-Plumr) can be deadly. Likewise, mixing Sani-Flush with bleach releases poisonous gas; on April 8, 1964 a Winn-Dixie food store in St. Petersburg, Florida was evacuated and eleven people hospitalised.
Sani-Flush is mentioned several times in William S. Burroughs' novel Naked Lunch, where the product is used to "cut" (dilute) cocaine or where it is substituted for morphine by a pharmacist.
The original product quietly disappeared from store shelves circa-2009; the US trademark was cancelled in 2013. Unlike rival Vanish, whose mark now serves to market other formats of toilet cleaner from the same manufacturer, the Sani-Flush name in the US was simply abandoned. "Sani-Flush" and "Sani-Flush Puck" retain their registered trademark status in Canada, but refer to a different toilet cleaner."
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