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Warner’s Foreign Offices: London (1882 – 1939?)
Perhaps one of Warner’s most prestigious foreign branches was his London office opened in 1882. Not only was the office in a major world capital, but it produced some, if not most of the most colorful...
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The Rise and Fall of the Warner Empire: Going Public and the Panic of 1893...
By the late 1880′s, Warner had decided that he could leverage the assets of his Safe Cure company by offering shares of it for purchase by the public. Atwater notes that Warner initially proposed a...
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Warner’s Foreign Offices: Melbourne (1887-1915) and Dundein (1891-1900)
When I originally wrote my post about the Warner Foreign Offices, it was my intention to profile each of them in future posts in the order in which they appeared on the scene. I held to that plan for...
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H. H. Warner & Co. Ltd.
On the heels of my last post on the Mebourne and Dundein foreign offices, it seems appropriate to take a bit of time to focus on the entity known as H. H. Warner & Co. Ltd. In a week that has seen...
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The Rise and Fall of the Warner Empire: The Warner’s Safe Remedies Co. (Part...
Warner’s slide into insolvency was hastened by the Panic of 1893, which some historians compare to the Great Depression of the late 1920′s and 1930′s. However, the fact of the matter is that H. H....
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Warner’s Foreign Offices: Melbourne Revisited
Back in June, I wrote about Warner’s foreign offices in Melbourne and Dundein, New Zealand. With help from Wayne Harris, I shed a bit of light on the opening of those two offices as Warner’s business...
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The Importance of Labels – Part 1
One of the perennial questions that comes up among bottle collectors, especially those of us who collect cures and remedies is “does a label on a bottle increase its value?” The answer to that is most...
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Warner’s Safe Cure: Christmas Wishes from Down Under
Although I am a couple of weeks late, I recently stumbled upon this full-page Christmas Warner’s Safe Cure ad from The Sydney Mail dated December 20, 1890. I really like the ad because it is an...
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