Spanish American War US Army Medical Department contract box of Court plaster

Description

This listing is for a reproduction (one of a kind) of a rare US Army Medical Department contract box of Johnson & Johnson's
product
"Dickmans Anica " Court Plaster.  A sturdy pasteboard box wrapped in blue paper with a unique waxed cord pull opener that runs down the back of the box
Over 5,000 of a much larger contract of these boxes where delivered in crates from the Johnson & Johnson,Company via rail to the US Army cantonments in Georgia, Virginia, Maryland and at Tampa, Florida in the summer of 1898 under contract directly from the New Jersey factory to fill the immediate requirements of the Army Medical Department supporting troops preparing to invade Cuba along with a variety of contract medical supplies from this same company.
This box is based directly on the "existing partial remains" of an original example and is empty.
Not known if the full initial contract for these where delivered to the US Army .These
boxes
where a
standard on the then
current
civilian
market and where shipped directly from the factory. A
specifically
designed Army package did not exist.The boxes where "....to be clearly marked with Army contract and date of
manufacture
..." This item was not an individual issue item and was likely intended for
infirmary
, hospital ,or use in a medical chest.Certainly possible that medical aid men would have had access to this item.