Brandreth's Pills (pill box, catalogue record)

History Colorado museum catalogue record for a Brandreth's Pills tin (object ID 95.190.464.B), fetched and read directly (note: this catalogue system is session-token-based and can redirect an un-sessioned re-fetch to a portal landing page rather than the record itself, so passages are reported here in indirect/paraphrased style rather than as a mechanically re-fetchable verbatim quotation). The catalogue marks the manufacture date unknown, supplies the range 1888-1965, and explains that 1888 is the date of a court-filing notice printed on the box; it does not date manufacture to 1888. The Inscription field transcribes a bottom-panel ingredient label giving, per pill, precise gram weights of aloes, gum gamboge, gum guaiac, colocynth, gum arabic, extract of sarsaparilla, white castle soap, and capsicum (gum gamboge the largest single weight in this later artifact, at 0.212 grams). The tin was manufactured by Allcock Mfg. Co. and cannot establish the formula Benjamin Brandreth sold before his 1880 death. The box also carries anti-counterfeiting text warning that no Brandreth Pills are genuine without three facsimile signatures on the box, the brand claim that the pills are entirely vegetable, and a direction to take one to eight pills.