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Vintage Advertising Enamel Porcelain Sign MELLIN\'S Food Early 1900\'s Mellins For Sale


Vintage Advertising Enamel Porcelain Sign MELLIN\'S Food Early 1900\'s Mellins
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Vintage Advertising Enamel Porcelain Sign MELLIN\'S Food Early 1900\'s Mellins :
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Scarce Original 20\" Mellin\'s English infant baby food porcelain sign from around the 1920\'s to 1930\'s or earlier. Great colors. Almost 100 years old. Has rust, chipping and does not lay perfectly flat. Shipped insured.
TheOxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in Americacontinues,“In 1867, the Swiss merchjant Henri Nestle invented the first artificial infant food, and in 1873, 500,000 boxes of Nestle’s Milk Food were sold in the United States as well as in Europe, Argentina, and the Dutch East Indies. By the late 1880s, several brands of mass- produced foods, mostly grain mixtures to be mixed with milk or water, were on the market. These included Liebig’s Food, Carnick’s Soluble Food, Eskay’s Albumenized Food, Imperial Granum, Wagner’s Infant Food and Mellin’s Food. Mellin’s was perhaps the most widely used.”

[1874] MELLIN\'S FOOD/United Kingdom
\"The exhibits of Mellin\'s food in the Mechanics and Instituted exhibitions now in progress have attracted the attention of thousands of visitors, and the people are beginning to examine and discuss the suggestive topic which the displays suggest. Time and experience have put this food to a successful test, and its important bearing upon the rising and future generations cannot be oversetimated. Its history proves again that it is almost invariably the case that a really good article is slow in making its way into the favor of the public, but, when finally its excellences are known, its success is assured and the rapidity of its introduction marvellous. This is notably the case with the article which is known as Mellin\'s food, and which is now being so generally received into public favor. For years it has been a deplorable but acknowldged fact, that an alarming percentage of children die before reaching the age of five years. In England, the number of children that die under one year old is in the ratio of one to every twelve births...Liebig\'s food,...came the nearest to a practical solution of the difficult problem, but it was unsuitable for distribution and exportation, and much trouble and a sacrifice of time were entailed by its daily preparation. G. Mellin of London, following Liebig\'s suggestions, produced an article which is portable, easy of preparation, and which gives entire satisfaction. Mellin\'s food, requires neither boiling nor straining, that having already been done, but is almost instantly prepared for use by dissolving a certain quantity in hot water and then adding cold milk. Analysis of the food after mixing shows it to contain a large proportion of grape sugar, which enters so largely into the composition of mother\'s milk, together with a large amount of protein and soluble phosphates, indicating flesh and bone forming nutrients of the highest type...Thus sucenc e finally conquered all difficulties, and produced a food that all mothers will hail with delight. Not until 1874 did it make its appearance in this country, and then through the enterprises of Theodore Metcalf & Co., who, in response to the growing demand, obtained the North American agency. In order to supply the greatly increased demand in Europe and America for this food the proprietor was obliged to erect larger works, and since 1877 the food has been regularly supplied....The best medical men in the country now acknowledge its merits and prescribe it in cases where formerly they were almost helpless.\"
---\"A Public Benefactor: An Exhibit at the Fair--Mellin\'s Food for Infants...\",Boston Daily Globe, November 6, 1881 (p. 5)

\"The Duty of Every Mother and especially those who are charged with the delicate and great responsibility of rearing hand-fed children, is to investigate the merits of the best artificial food for the preservation of infant life. The universal testimony of our most skillful physicians, and of thousands of mothers who have practially tested it, demonstrated beyond a doubt that Mellin\'s Food for Infants is the best, and contains exactly the ingredients necessary to insure the life and health of the little ones to develop them in body and mind, and secure robust health in childhood, manhood and womanhood.\"
---display ad, Theodore Metcalf & Co., 39 Tremont St., Boston Mass., \"Sole agents for the United States and British America,\"Boston Daily Globe, April 11, 1880 (p. 30) [NOTE: this ad contains physican testimonials.]

\"By the 1890s the most popular by far of the powders to be added to milk was Mellin\'s Food, developed in England and manufactured in Boston, whose advertisements claimed that it was \"the genuine Liebig\'s Food,\" The best known of the dried-milk products was another European import, Nestle\'s Milk Food, which was manufactured and distributed under license by a New York City firm. Advertisements for various proprietary infant foods because well-nigh ubiquitious by the 1890s....Nestle\'s (\"Best for Babies\") said it was better for babies than milk, for \"impure milk in hot weather is one of the chief causes of sickness among babies.\"...A favorite promotional technique was to offer free samples by mail to the readers of middle-class magazines. Perhaps the most effective with middle-class mothers...were the free handbooks on infant care feeding distributed by the companies. Mellin\'s with its own press, was especially active in this field. The handbooks explained the chemistry of milk and feeding in clear but relatively sophisticated language, adding an aura of science to the food they were promoting. Not only did they prove effective in convincing mothers of the efficacy of proprietary infant foods, they convinced many doctors as well...Thus, by the 1980s a number of sources spread the growing impression that artificial feeding was both scientific and modern.\"
---Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet, Harvey Levenstein [Oxford University Press:New York] 1988 (p.124)
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