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My fellow collector and neighbor Don Self came across a cornflower blue cabin figural counter top container embossed on both sides of the roof

which also serves as the cover "Lutted’s / S.P. Cough / Drops. The roofline slopes to the center chimney some, and there are "straw" marks particularly on the floor like one sees in depression glass. It measures 6^7/8 inches tall, 8^7/8 inches long and 4^7/8 inches wide.
I wrote about my example in cobalt blue with a straighter roof line in Medicine Chest, January, 1997. It also has "straw" marks and measures 7 inches tall, 8^5/8 inches long and 4 3/4 inches wide. The door and windows on mine measure 2^1/8 inches tall and 1^3/8 inches wide. They measure 2^1/8 by 1^1/2 inches, door, and 2^1/8 by 1^1/4 inches, windows, on Don’s.

The Harmer Rooke Galleries, 3 East 57^th St., New York City, listed and pictured a clear example with some roof line slope to the center, 7 inches tall, 9 inches long and 5 3/4 inches wide in their Absentee Auction Number 50 Catalog, December 23, 1992. They considered the piece to be rare with an estimated value of $500.00. I do not know what it sold for, but at that price they must have considered it to be an original.
James Lutted established J. Lutted and Company in 1876, in Buffalo, N.Y., at 301 Main St. By 1886, the business had moved to larger facilities at Nos. 27 and 29 Elliott St. They sold candies, foreign fruits, show cases and "J.L." and "Uncle Sam" Cough Drops as specialties. S.P. may have been an abbreviation for specialty product. There are at least nine different trade cards advertising Lutted’s Cough Drops or Lutted’s S.P. Cough Drops.

The colors of the glass cabin containers are clear, pink, straw colored and blue. I asked Jack Stecher of Rochester, N.Y. about Lutted’s and he conferred with Burt Spiller and Ken Cornell. They believe that any color other than clear is a reproduction. Jim Hagenbuch believes that there are clear reproductions as well.
Another help if the Harmer Rooke example is an original, is that the width is significantly greater than our two blues.
Don and I still like our pieces, and they didn’t cost $500.00.....

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Dr. Cannons - cobalt blue.	Don Self - cornflower blue