Medicine bottle
Pfizer PGM
Category
Childcare objects
Date
2007
Materials
Glass, plastic, cardboard and paper
Measurements
Spoon – 86 mm (length); 30 mm (width), Box –50 mm (width); 118 mm (height); 50 mm (depth), Leaflet –209 mm (width opened out); 160 mm (height), Bottle -110 mm (height)
Place of origin
Avenue de Concyr, 5
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 663051
Summary
A bottle of Calpol, liquid paracetamol for babies, in its original packaging, which includes an advice leaflet and measuring spoon (2007). According to the label the contents, which have now been discarded, were strawberry flavoured. The bottle is made of brown glass, with a white plastic 'childproof' cap which has a diagram explaining how to open it moulded into the top. Stuck round the centre of the bottle is a colour-printed label (mainly white and purple) which contains information about the product such as dosage, etcetera. The box is colour-printed with information about the product and is mainly in white on a glossy purple background. On the front is a photograph of a smiling toddler in a white top. The advice leaflet is white, printed in black and purple. The white plastic measuring spoon has a bowl at each end, moulded with the markings '5ml' at one end and '2.5ml' at the other. Total number of items is 4.
Provenance
Purchased for the Museum of Childhood by Mrs Sue J. Fraser (Collections Assistant) in July 2007.
Makers and roles
Pfizer PGM , maker