CAST-IRON STRING HOLDER:
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Advertising String Holder for "SSS FOR THE BLOOD"
Circa
1890
Country of manufacture
North America
Description
C1900 medicine advertising string holder marked “SSS for the Blood”. From an old apothecary shop or chemist, used at counter to dispense string for parcel wrapping. Pot was hung by bale and string was pulled from hole on bottom. Bale is original & the cauldron may have had a repaint at sometime. Height: 4″ or 10cm ,with bale down. It weighs 3lbs
From Wiki:
“Charles Thomas Swift (December 10, 1846 in Morgan County, Georgia – December 30, 1890 in Atlanta) was a prominent Atlanta businessman who became rich marketing the S.S.S tonic, still in production today by S.S.S. Company. The tonic was reportedly an “old [American] Indian remedy for blood poison”.
In 1879, he founded S.S.S as a partnership with Henry J. Lamar of Macon, Georgia and Jesse W. Rankin, a co-founder of the Metropolitan Street Railroad horsecars in Atlanta. The company became one of the wealthiest patent medicine concerns in the country, and S. S. S. had been introduced into every “nook and corner” of the US.”
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M and R Gordon
Michael and Roberta Gordon have been dealing in medical and dental antiques for more than four decades. They have helped build a number of major private collections and have contributed to the holdings of many museums. They also deal in other scientific and technology related items, including calculating instruments, office machines, patent models and wine-related accessories such as corkscrews. ROBERTA GORDON IS A SKILLED RESTORER WHO CAN HELP YOU WITH ANY INSTRUMENTS AND CASES THAT NEED ATTENTION. Feel free to contact them for details at: [email protected] or 718-541-5974
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