Historical information

This bottle has been issued to a customer of Shilton's Pharmacy 11 9 Liebig Street, Warrnambool. The bottle contained tablets to be taken for a cold. Harry Shilton bought the business in 1937 and added a chiropody clinic and a hairdressing salon and he was known as the " Man in White.' . In 1953 Harry Shilton took on a partner Alan Anderson . Harry Shilton retired in 1960 and Alan Anderson continued as the proprietor, transferring the partnership to John Lindsay in 1967. The name Shilton was still used until 1972.

Significance

This bottle is of minor importance as an example of tablets in a bottle as used by customers in the 1960s.

Physical description

A brown glass bottle with a plastic lid. It has a label with red and black printing. The base of the bottle has embedded in it letters and numbers

Inscriptions & markings

AMCAL CHEMIST
SHILTON'S PHARMACY 119 LIEBIG STREET WARRNAMBOOL TEL 2006
M 1017