Trilety Nose Shaper

(this advice is NOT from this set)

Do you want a nicer nose ?? Quite easy !!! :)

Here's a morale-booster with staying power. What a thing to say to your potential customers: "You Have A Beautiful Face. But Your Nose?"

Yes, what about it? That nose looks all right to me. Not perfect, but all right. Not worth putting it into that contraption, anyway. And remolding the cartilege sounds very dubious.

Trilety plays on the timeless worry about beauty leading to success in life - and the lack thereof leading to failure. Since success is "your ultimate destiny" (naturally) you need to purchase one of these nose-shapers. That will lead to Mr. Trilety's financial success in life, in any case.

The ad above is from 1916, So Mr. Trilety of Binghamton, New York, "Pioneer Nose Shaping Specialist," was onto something. Play on people's vanity and vulnerability, and you will sell all sorts of strange things (that's still true today, as we all know).

Were you supposed to wear these at night?

This Nose-Shaper was patented in 1920's, definetely one of the funniest medical devices ever created ...

Complete set, in the original cardboard case with instructions, this is the Italian version.