Jar, Vicks VapoRub

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Jar, Vicks VapoRub

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Wyndham & Districts Historical Museum

Description

This is a small cobalt blue glass jar with a threaded top, although the top is now missing. Underneath the jar is a double triangle symbol, and from this we know that this jar contained Vicks VapoRub salve as the triangles were a registered trademark. The Vicks brand name is often used synonymously with the VapoRub product, which was first made in 1905. This bottle is part of a large collection of chemist's equipment which came from the old Wyndham pharmacy in Balaclava Street. This was the U...

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Date created

1930?

Creator

Richardson-Vicks, Inc.

URL

https://ehive.com/collections/3102/objects/995189

Related subjects

Business and Retail / Health and Medicine / 1930s

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