Sounds like a Holloways Ointment jar. see: 


http://cid-6c471dfb188c9788.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Fort%20Johnson

or 38CH69.com
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Sent: Mon, Apr 19, 2010 5:24 pm
Subject: apothecary jar lid help


Hi all:
 
We have an apothecary jar lid fragment from a ca. 1860s site with the  
following in black:
 
...Y THE PROPRI../
...YORK&LONDON/
... IN POTS
... 62 1/2 C. x $1 EACH/
...t Vendors of Medicine/
...   OUT THE CIVILIZED/
WORLD
 
Having trouble identifying this puppy.  Can anyone help? or steer me  to a 
good source?
 
Thanks in advance!
 
Mary L.  Maniery
PAR Environmental Services,  Inc.