Lot#1 - 4 Antique Drug Bottles from Armour Laboratories, Armour and Co., Chicago

Description

Lot#1 - 4 Antique Drug Bottles from Armour Laboratories,
the Pharmaceutical Division of Armour and Company, Chicago
no reserve auction
for display purposes only -- not for human consumption
Each bottle has an intact label and a cork top (with the Armour and Company Laboratory logo stamped on the cork top).
On the side of each bottle, in raised embossed lettering, it says: "Armour Laboratories, Chicago".
Description of the 4 bottles, LtoR (see photo);
#1 -  "Corpus Luteum Powder"
#2 - " Suprarenal Tablets"
#3 - "Tablets Duodenin" - no cork top; bottle is empty
#4 (+box) - "Whole Pituitary Tablets" - plastic screw cap
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armour_and_Company
Armour & Company
was an American company and was one of the five leading firms in the
meat packing industry
. It was founded in Chicago, in 1863, by the Armour brothers led by
Philip Danforth Armour
. By 1880, the company had become Chicago's most important business and had helped make Chicago and its
Union Stock Yards
the center of America's meatpacking industry. During the same period,
its facility
in
Omaha, Nebraska
, boomed, making the city's meatpacking industry the largest in the nation by 1959.
In connection with its meatpacking operations, the company also ventured into pharmaceuticals (Armour Pharmaceuticals).
In addition to meats, Armour sold many types of consumer products made from animals in its early years, including
glue
, oil,
fertilizer
, hairbrushes, buttons,
oleomargarine
, and
drugs, made from slaughterhouse byproducts
.
In 1970, Armour and Company was acquired by Chicago-based bus company
Greyhound Corporation
In 1978, Greyhound sold Armour Pharmaceuticals to
Revlon
.
Revlon sold its drug unit in 1985 to Rorer (later known as
Rhône-Poulenc
Rorer).
Forest Laboratories
acquired the rights to Armour Thyroid from Rhone-Poulenc Rorer in 1991.
The remaining assets of Armour Pharmaceuticals are now part of
CSL Behring