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A two-piece metamorphic trade card advertising Sunny Brook, the "Pure Food" whiskey, from the Sunny Brook Distillery Co. of Chicago, IL. The trade card is fashioned in the shape of a bottle of Sunny Brook. It measures 3" tall and 1-1/2" in width. The bottle seal suggests that it was distilled in the spring of 1900, bottled in 1908, with a tax stamp id that reads "98764".

Pulling on the bottle neck reveals that the body was a cover. Inside is a bottle-shaped card that has a Court plaster attached (a Court plaster is a pre-Prohibition fore-runner of the modern "Band-Aid").

The obverse of the card admonishes"The Courtplaster / on the back of this card / You may have to use / for your health / SOME DAY / SUNNY BROOK / THE / PURE FOOD WHISKEY / You ought to use / for your health / EACH DAY".

This particular card has been additionally printed with the name and address of a Baltimore dealer: "SOLD BY / SHEA & McGUIRE / 508 N Gay Street / BALTIMORE, MD."