Frog in Your Throat For Coughs and Colds, A Collection by Kozmic Dreams

Welcome to my Frog in Your Throat collection page. I have always loved amphibians. When I discovered there was a company called "Frog in Your Throat" that got its start in the late 1800's, of course I began collecting everything I could find. While they are known for their cough drops (throat lozenges), the items created to advertise their product are also quite interesting, consisting of medicine cards, postcards, match safes, fishing lures, buttons and more. I have even found two photos of very unusual drugstore displays that used real dried frogs to create a scene. Sorry, none of these items are available for sale.

10 of a set of 20 Medicine Cards

(one duplicate)

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Frog in Your Throat Medicine Cards

(9 of a set of 20 with duplicate of "Don't-Spank-Em")

2 9/16 X 1 9/32"

1900's

2 unusually-sized postcards

Frog in Your Throat Postcards

5 1/16 X 3"

1900's

10 of a set of 12 postcards

missing are "For Singers" and "A Universal Favorite"

Frog in Your Throat Postcard, "Fore - Everybody"

5 3/4 X 4"

Frog in Your Throat Postcard, "Fore - Everybody"

5 3/4 X 4"

Frog in Your Throat Postcard "Fore - Everybody"

5 9/16 X 3 5/8"

(trimmed to fit in standard postcard album)

Frog in Your Throat Postcard, "Needs no introduction"

5 3/4 X 4"

Frog in Your Throat Postcard, "Needs no introduction"

5 1/2 X 3 3/4"

(trimmed to fit in standard postcard album)

Frog in Your Throat Postcard, "Pleasant to take"

5 3/4 X 4"

Frog in Your Throat Postcard, "Pleasant to take"

5 1/2 X 3 3/4"

(trimmed to fit in standard postcard album)

Frog in Your Throat Postcard, "A Social Success"

5 3/4 X 4"

Frog in Your Throat Postcard, "A Social Success"

5 3/4 X 4"

Frog in Your Throat Postcard, "Innocent and Instantaneous"

5 1/2 X 3 1/2"

(trimmed to fit in standard postcard album)

Frog in Your Throat Postcard, "Nothing Better"

5 5/8 X 3 1/2"

(trimmed to fit in standard postcard album)

Frog in Your Throat Postcard, "A Favorite at all Times"

5 3/8 X 3 3/4"

(trimmed to fit in standard postcard album)

Frog in Your Throat Postcard, "My Old Friend Da Frog"

5 7/16 X 3 9/16"

(trimmed to fit in standard postcard album)

Frog in Your Throat Postcard, "Don't be without it"

5 1/2 X 3 7/16"

(trimmed to fit in standard postcard album)

10.

Frog in Your Throat Postcard, "Popular Everywhere"

5 1/2 X 3 3/8"

(trimmed to fit in standard postcard album)

Sales Envelope

Frog in Your Throat Sales Department Envelope with 2 cent stamp

1932 or before (judging by postal rates)

Cough Syrup

8 oz. bottle, mostly full.

6 9/16 high X 2 9/16" wide.

Lozenge Boxes

Frog in Your Throat Lozenges

2 3/4 X 1 1/2"

Empty box with October 3, 1898 tax stamp

Frog in Your Throat Lozenges

2 3/4 X 1 1/2"

Two empty boxes

1900 (notice the tax stamp dates)

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Frog in Your Throat Lozenges

2 3/4 X 1 1/2"

Two empty boxes

Date Unknown

Frog in Your Throat Lozenges

2 3/4 X 1 1/2"

Box with two lozenges (other sides look the same as above box, but this box is laminated)

Date Unknown

Frog in Your Throat Lozenges

2 3/4 X 1 1/2"

Empty Box

The interesting thing about this box is that the frog is different than any others. There are hardly any black lines near the bottom to depict the frog's feet. He is more like a big blob. Also, the ingredients are right on the front of the box and the "Public Warning" is on both sides of the box (which is why I only pictured one side).

Frog in Your Throat Lozenges

2 3/4 X 1 1/2"

Nearly full box (only missing 2 cough drops)

Date Unknown (notice the change in packaging---looks more like the future 15-cent box)

Frog in Your Throat Lozenges

2 7/8 X 1 5/16"

Contains four whole cough drops and fragments of others

1960's or 1970's

Advertisements from lozenge boxes

Frog in Your Throat Paper Advertisement

2 3/8 X 2 1/4" unfolded

This was probably something they put inside the box of cough drops.

Frog in Your Throat Calendar and Puzzle Card

2 3/4 X 4 3/16"

Calendar is for the year 1896.

Magazine Advertisements

Frog in Your Throat Ad from the December 1902 trade journal,

"The Spatula: An Illustrated Magazine for Pharmacists"

6 7/16 X 8 3/4"

The page is shown that the ad appeared on as well as the page behind it.

Photographs of Store Displays

Photograph of a Frog in Your Throat Display at A.E. Schmidt Chemical Company

4 9/16 X 6 1/16" photograph with close-ups shown below

Date unknown

One interesting thing is the flying apparatus with real dried frogs. There are also dried frogs forming a chain on each side and others on display in the front.