NOTE: Ref. Glass Salt Shakers, Arthur G. Peterson, p42, 56. Patented by S. S. Newton in 1880 for packaging bluing or other powdered product.
NOTE: Tom Felt 2023: there is also a design patent, No. 11,965, for Design for a Package for Powdered Articles, filed July 1, 1880, approved September 14, 1880., that shows the actual form, so I think it is safe to give 1879 as the introduction date.