Overbeck's rejuvenator, patented
primary document · 1929
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SUMMARY
An earlier and longer (88-page) Overbeck's Rejuvenator booklet, distributed by O. Overbeck himself and dated by the Wellcome cataloguer to about 1929, while Overbeck was alive and trading under his own name. Held by the Wellcome Collection (work id dh3tku6h). Catalogued as containing illustrations and portraits. Used here as a corroborating period primary record of the product, its self-described 'patented' status, and its direct distribution by Overbeck, distinct from the later 1938 Supreme Model directions booklet (Overbeck's Rejuvenator Ltd) that supplies the case media. Title, extent, and the inferred 1929 date read from the Wellcome catalogue API.
NOTES
The ‘patented’ Overbeck’s Rejuvenator booklet, distributed by O. Overbeck and dated by the Wellcome Collection cataloguer to approximately 1929 (work dh3tku6h, 88 pages, illustrations and portraits, 22 cm, Grimsby). It corroborates the product’s commercial form during Overbeck’s lifetime: distributed under his own name, foregrounding the device’s patented status as a mark of legitimacy, the marketing strategy James F. Stark’s 2014 study analyzes. It is cited here as an independent period primary record alongside the 1938 Supreme Model directions booklet; the bracketed date and place are the cataloguer’s inferences, recorded as such.