Good Egg: Scarce and Excellent 1906 Bassett's Egg Shampoo Advertising Tin, Rochester NY folk art canoe The Universal Beautifier: Good Temper

The Universal Beautifier: Good Temper

The text details 76 exterior and 53 interior muscles of the body corresponding to numbers on the beautifully rendered bodies

Like the macrame baskets of sailors

I had not realized though that these two particular cans are early and quite rare ones-- part of a series of cans with different backs

but made by other indigenous people of the Columbia Plateau region as well

Good Egg: Scarce and Excellent 1906 Bassett's Egg Shampoo Advertising Tin, Rochester NY folk art canoe The Universal Beautifier: Good TemperI came across one of these Bassett Egg Shampoo tins for the first time at an antique shop in Pennsylvania and was very taken with it but then I saw the price! Happily, a couple of days later I came across another at more of a hole in the wall shop, not so preciously marked. A wonderful example of package design, produced by Bassett Supply Co., Rochester NY, c. 1906. With directions for use of the egg shampoo on the flip side of the tin. Charming. 2 3