VTG Baby Bath Life Saver Thermometer Faichney Instrument Corp Watertown NY

Vintage Baby Thermometer for Bath, Food, Enema in the shape of a life saver ring.  In the package from Faichney Manufacturing, Watertown, NY. The Glass Thermometry Company was established in Watertown, N.Y., in 1888. It became the Faichney Instrument Co. in 1920. At mid-century, the firm boasted being the largest clinical thermometer company in the world.” It was acquired by Chesebrough-Pond Inc. in 1966. In 2011, after several more corporate acquisitions and divestitures, the Watertown factory closed. - from the Smithsonian Institute website