Copper advertising scent bottle for “Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Herb Medicine Pills for Constipation Sanative Wash”

Copper flattened flask: it has raised letter advertising on the back that says: “Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Herb Medicine Pills for Constipation Sanative Wash”. The front has the monogram LEP in a round cartouche for Lydia E. Pinkham, with engine turning vertical design and scrollwork along the edges. Screw cap and dauber. Pinkham (February 9, 1819 – May 17, 1883) was an American inventor and marketer of an herbal-alcoholic “women’s tonic” for menstrual and menopausal problems, which medical experts dismissed as a quack remedy, but which is still on sale today in a modified form. She was abolitionist and feminist. Isaac Pinkham was ruined financially in the economic depression of the early 1870s Lydia initially made the remedy on her stove before its success enabled production to be transferred to a factory. She answered letters from customers and probably wrote most of the advertising copy. Her slogan was: This lady was a is considered one first women who runs her own business in USA