Embossed on one side: "HINDS // HONEY // AND // ALMOND // CREAM // A. S. // HINDES CO // (CANADA) // LIMITED // TORONTO // IMPROVES THE // COMPLEXION // PROTECTS // THE // SKIN" on base: "4" and diamond makers mark with "D" inside
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-A4-8 Box 1 Row D
Length
6.7
Width
2.8
Depth
1.7
Unit Of Measure
centimeters
Condition Remarks
Minor crack on back by bottom of neck
Copy Type
original
Reference Types
Internet
Reference Comments
A. S. Hinds. Cosmetics and Skin
Research Facts
Aurelius Stone Hinds was born in Livermore, Androscoggin but was educated in Dixfield, Maine. In 1862, aged 18, he moved to Portland, Maine to work as a clerk for H. H. Hay & Co. In 1870, Aurelius went into business for himself after buying a drug store under Preble House on Congress Street, and it was there that he developed the product that would become Hinds’ Honey and Almond Cream.
It is particularly recommended for rough, hard or irritated skin, chapped hands, face and lips, pimples, scaly eruptions, wrinkles, sunburn, chilblains, burns, scalds, wounds, chafing, ivy poison, stings and bites of insects, inflamed and irritated piles, salt rheum, eczema, and all conditions of the Skin of like character. Gentlemen after shaving will find it a Superior Lotion for the Face to allay Irritation and prevent soreness.