Albert (Mim)
Tuckwell's collection
Hulbert Harrington Warner 1842 - 1923.
After a successful career as a dealer - agent for the Mosier Safe Company, which made him extremely wealthy, Warner set his sights to a new career path in patent medicine manufacture.
In 1879, after purchasing the patent rights to a Kidney Cure, Warner developed, marketed, and manufactured a range of proprietary medicine that would become so popular that in the early 1880s he found it necessary to establish outlets in Melbourne; Frankfurt; Toronto; Dunedin; Kreutzlinger (Switzerland) and Pressburg in Hungary.
The distinguishing feature of Warners bottles was a large money safe, this being adopted from his old business.
Containing mostly alcohol in its content, Safe Cure had no medicinal value to offer the suffering. Other than the possible phychological effect inspired by Warners extremely aggressive marketing which promised so much and delivered nothing.