KLEWE & CO INC. NEW HAVEN CONNECTICUT EMBOSSED MINIATURE DENTAL CEMENT ? BOTTLE

Description

KLEWE & CO INC. NEW HAVEN CONNECTICUT EMBOSSED MINIATURE DENTAL CEMENT ? BOTTLE
Item:
Vintage medicine bottle
Business:
Klewe & Co.
Product:
Dental cement?
City, State:
New Haven, Connecticut
Date:
c. 1904+
Embossed:
Yes
Color:
Clear
Size:
1 7/8" tall, ¾" square base
Research:
Dentist Dr Newell Sill Jenkins who is sometimes, and more famously, credited with putting cosmetic dentistry on the map in America was based for many years in Germany.
Jenkins invented a porcelain enamel for tooth fillings and in 1895 founded a company in Dresden to manufacture it. He named it 'The Klewe Company’ after his German technician and by 1904, having returned to America, the company’s base became New Haven, Connecticut.
But it was not the enamel porcelain that would eventually lead to Nalgiri, it was the invention of a new formula for toothpaste.
Jenkins together with a colleague, Dr Willoughby D Miller, collaborated on the formula that was eventually given the name‘Kolynos’ from the
Greek Kolyo nosus, meaning ‘Disease Preventer'.
Condition Description:
Very Good with a couple of minor upper lip chips. 4 mm internal fracture along upper right front corner.
CC ID# SL:
HBOT 11956
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