On one side reads: CHAS. H. FLETCHER'S and on the other side: CASTORIA.
This product started as Dr. S. Pitcher’s Castoria, the formula being patented on May 18, 1868. Several years later the rights to that product and recipe was sold to Charles H. Fletcher, and marketed through the J. B. Rose Company, and later the Centaur Company.
The 17-year patent for the original Pitcher’s Castoria product expired on May 18, 1885. Several years after the patent expired, in 1896 the firm Heinsfurter & Daggett of Fargo, North Dakota began selling their own product under the name “Pitcher’s Castoria”. Centaur brought this to court, and in January 1897 the judgment went in favor of Heinsfurter & Daggett to sell their product as “Pitcher’s Castoria”.
(Meanwhile, probably sometime during the period of 1893-1897, bottles sold by Centaur changed from being marked “Dr. S. Pitcher’s”, to “Chas. H. Fletcher’s”.)
These bottles measure about 4.75 inches tall.
See post showing Dr. S. Pitcher's bottle.
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