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Brass Key Fob Charge Coin: “Wm. Warner & Co” NY Drug Mfg; Became Warner-Lambert
$ 10.55
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Vintage Wm. R. Warner Co. #1282 Brass Key Fob.Measures Approx. 1- 1/2" in height
1856 - William R. Warner opened drug store in Philadelphia, PA, Warner invented a tablet coating process that allowed medicine to be encased in a sugar shell.
1886 - Warner gave up retail pharmacy business and began drug manufacture under the name William R. Warner & Co.
1908 - company acquired by Gustavus A. Pfeiffer & Company, a patent medicine company from St. Louis, MO, United States. Pfeiffer retained the Warner company name and moved headquarters to New York; by 1940s - some 50 companies had been acquired including Richard Hudnut Company (1916) and the DuBarry cosmetic company.
1950 - company renamed Warner-Hudnut;
1952 - New Jersey Chilcott Laboratories purchased;
1955 - merger between Warner-Hudnut and Lambert Pharmacal to form Warner-Lambert Company;
1956 - relocated to Morris Plains, New Jersey, United States
1970 - acquired Parke, Davis & Co.