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Category: Pharmacy
Estimated Date: 1900
Name: VapoCresolene Apparatus
Manufacturer: Vapo Cresoline Co.

Description: 6.75“x 3.75“x 3.25” yellow cardboard box with picture of girl asleep and of lamp and directions for use. Contains directions to only use best kerosine lamp on ornate gilded base with extra wick and two chimneys, one clear glass the other opaque. Dish on top to hold the medication. The medication bottle is shown in one of the photos. It is a bottle with multiple ridges that were used to denote poison, not for internal consumption. The bottle measures 4: x 1.5 sq. It is embossed, not pontilled.

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