A soldier in 19th-century costume (hussar?) killing a big green fly by spraying it with a gun of Flit insecticide. Colour lithograph, 1930.

Date:
[1930]
Reference:
589481i
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Description

The Flit insecticide currently (2004) marketed by Clarke Mosquito Control contains permethrin as its active agent, but permethrin seems to have been developed only in 1977. Flit was a petroleum-derived insecticide, made in the USA by Stanco, Inc. of New Jersey, a subsidiary of Standard Oil

Publication/Creation

[Germany?] : [publisher not identified], [1930]

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; image 114.4 x 79.7 cm

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Lettering

Flit tötet schneller On container: "Flit vernichtet Fliegen, Stechmücken, Motten ... Anderes Ungezwiefer samt brut"

Creator/production credits

Flies are in style similar to that of Dr Seuss (Theodore Seuss Geisel), who did work for Flit from ca. 1927. Could this be one of his designs?

Reference

Wellcome Collection 589481i

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