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CORAL R PP
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This turned wooden straight walled drug jar is painted red with a red lid. The jar is decorated with an ivory-colored oval medallion outlined in black. The interior of the medallion is painted white and is marked, “CORAL/ R PP” in black. Two vertical lines intersect the stem of the P. This is the alchemical symbol for powder.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineCORAL R PP. 18th century. National Museum of American History, Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. CC0.
