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I recently purchased a very old box at an auction. It is labeled Stuart’s Tablets “for excess stomach acidity”. I was quite surprised to open the box and find it full of unused medicine.
eBay does not allow the sale of expired medicine, but, technically, medicine did not have expiration dates at that time. Either way, it would be for collectable use only.
I am seeing old bottles of medicine listed and sold on eBay, but I’m still hesitant. I would certainly put in the listing that the tablets are not to be digested and that they are for collectable purposes only.
Does anyone have a more definitive answer as to whether this is acceptable to sell?
Here are some photos (second one shows the inside):
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Do you mention the medicine in the title?
I assume you say something in the description.
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Hum, this is a box that is easily opened. Maybe I’ll say intact or something like that.
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I would follow what Jay says. Also we had a lot of unopened baseball in packs, wax packs and full boxes some years ago. Many of the Topps had very old bubble gum sticks in them. We made sure we stated that the “contents were not for consumption in any manner”.
That was years ago. Maybe do a search on old baseball cards with gum that are currently for sale and see what the trend is now for having gum inside and it may provide you with some insights or key words to use.
Good luck,
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callou2131: That actually reminds me, we had a Jack Daniels “Belle of Liberty” collectors bottle with a metal neck band with some production data. It was opened but re-sealable. We checked with the local post master and discovered that transporting liquor which has a tax stamp associated with it across state lines, much less multiple state lines breaks several postal and federal rules, so we emptied the remaining contents and sold just the bottle.
But my point is I wonder if anything applies to medicine? Hhmm. I know the bubble gum in the baseball cards was probably not a “regulated substance”, but could be considered a food product I guess. So I wonder about the pills? Are they real medicine? They are not prescription, they were OTC so seems like the same as sending a bottle of contemporary aspirin I would assume. But your post made me remember the liquor laws and taxation topic the PM brought up.
Oh well, just thought I would mention it.
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atla
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For me, the main consideration is making sure the buyer cant claim a INAD because the medicine is expired. The buyer is buying the bottle/box itself.
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I found some information online about the company, which was quite a large business at one time. I don’t think that the ingredients have any kind of issue.
Online, I’m seeing mostly “Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets” whereas this one is only “Stuart’s Tablets”. This made me a bit concerned that it might be a reproduction, but I can’t say one way or the other.
Anyways, I did what any student of Scavenger Life would do. I listed it high with make offer.
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