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Small Dark Blue Jar

16 years ago

1 1/2 inches high, 1 /3/8 inches across OD, 1 inch ID. It has numbers around (1-12) the edge with the opening. The numbers are upside down when opening is up. On the solid end, in the center "THIS CUP HOLDS" Aroud the out side solid side "A HEAPING DESSERT SPOONFULL

Can anyone tell me what it was made for? What Co. made it?

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calliope
16 years ago
It is a medicine dispenser called a dose cup and distributed by the John Wyeth and Bros. Company along with a bottle of their elixirs. You would be able to measure out a teaspoon of medicine anytime you needed it. The numbers are to turn the cap to point to when your next dose would be.

Here is a link that might be useful: John Wyeth and Brothers Drug Company
calliope
16 years ago
I had to plink around to find a picture of the bottle it went with. Link below.

Here is a link that might be useful: Wyeth medicine bottle
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walkabout1935
Original Author
16 years ago
Thank You!

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