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Spoon Holder

News from a 1905 issue of

Hardware Dealers' Magazine

:

A. M. Irby, Vernon Hill, Va., is placing on the market the Corkscrew and Spoon Holder

illustrated. This little device is made of copper wire formed to shape. The object is to

always have the spoon at hand when the contents of a bottle are to be used. The

corkscrew, of course, is to be inserted in the cork and left until the bottle is emptied.

Addie Irby applied for a U. S. Patent on September 2, 1904. Patent No. 793,724 was

issued on July 4, 1905. Addie wrote

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As is well known in the use of medicines and the

like, it is a source of inconvenience and oftentimes chagrin not to find a spoon handy

and ready for use when it is desired to administer to the patient.

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The combination

corkscrew and spoon holder was Addie's solution to the problem.

Addie placed this classified advertisement in the

American Druggist and Pharmaceutical

Record

published by American Druggist Publishing Co. in 1906

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WANTED - To

correspond with wholesale druggists' sundries salesman with an established trade to