Too easy to find on Google Phil so I won't cheat. (This time anyway)
'Cos to be honest I would never have guessed it in a million years.
Does it hold something you'd inhale?? Not an oil, but some type of Camphor for colds??? Maybe cottonballs??
Me neither
It is a difficult one to guess but it does have a medical history
On the other hand I could be just stringing you along?
I don't think so ..
The SSS= Swift’s Southern Specific, one of America’s oldest pharmaceutical companies, founded in 1826.
Is it a pot that they used to hold blood when they bled people to rid them of their ailments??
The little hole in the bottom. Could it be used to pull out a string of some sort?
Yeah I won`t google either as it would be cheating but truthfully I saw one of these things in the
Indian settlement in Arizona, it was hanging on a hook and they had cords hanging out of it to tie their hair up with, or braiding their hair.
the ladies I mean..
I thought it so funny that the heading was for the blood what has that to do with blood.?. they said it was
just an advertising slogan.. for the tonic SSS.. and it was supposed to be over 80 yrs old.. so quite
valuable .. this was in 2007 we were there.. but I have no idea what its really used for ..
Wow - I don't know how to score this one, except to say
DING! DING! DING!
We have ...
winnas, I guess ... more than one. Let's see if we can sort this out ...
1. For those whose search abilities on the 'Net are awesome - I know, you can pretty much find anything on the 'Net if you know the tricks. That's one of the harder aspects of creating these little puzzles - giving enough info to make it solvable but not so much to provide fuel for an easy search. In this case, if I had eliminated the slogan on the item it would have made it much harder but also would have been "cheating" of a sort and would have taken away the "unique factor", so I left it on.
2. The hole in the bottom is indeed for
pulling out string. This piece is an advertising gimmick for Swift's Southern Specific, which
was one of the country's first pharmacies. The ad was for their S.S.S. blood tonic, hence "
S.S.S. For The Blood". The string was used for wrapping packages on a retail counter and this item held the ball of string neatly in one place while it was being used. The chain / handle combo in the one picture shows it also was probably used in a hanging position above the counter.
So, for all those who researched the answer and held it back,
thank you. For those who came up with the answer without searching,
congratulations. And as always, to everyone, thank you for playing and I hope you enjoyed it.
