Attic Find

[Harry Pristis]

Not too bad. I've seen them go 150 or more. I got mine for 60 bucks years ago. I have the 1978 Mckearins.

I'd say you made a good investment in a very attractive bottle.

The 1978 McKearin-Wilson book is chock-full of information for a serious collector. The 1950 McKearin book is more useful to general glass collectors with relatively modest bottle coverage.

If there's anything in this thread worth imparting to newbie bottle collectors, it might be 'Road Dog's suggestion to read something other than field guides and price guides. There is another dimension to old bottles -- that is, glass-making history and the reflection of our social history in that glass. Wouldn't you agree, 'Road Dog'?

 

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[Road Dog]

I couldn't have said it better myself.

 

[Road Dog]

Here is a neat one. Mcdonald's Reliable Vermifuge. Worms seem to have been a big problem back then. A testimonial stuck in my mind where a man told of a 20 foot tape worm that he had gotton rid of. Sorry about the fuzzy pic I took it under kitchen lights.

 

[Harry Pristis]

Here is a neat one. Mcdonald's Reliable Vermifuge. Worms seem to have been a big problem back then. A testimonial stuck in my mind where a man told of a 20 foot tape worm that he had gotton rid of. Sorry about the fuzzy pic I took it under kitchen lights.

Nice little bottle. Vermifuges seem to be popular -- collectors (like the broader populace) have some sort of attraction-repulsion fascination with the gross and unpleasant. It's safe on the movie screen or on the label of a 100+ year old bottle -- couldn't happen in today's reality!

I think this is the last of my labelled meds, a common but nonetheless attractive Kilmer's Swamp-Root.

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[crazyjarhead]

That's a nice find. Handle with care

 

[Road Dog]

Great Kilmers. I got one packed away somewhere's . Mine doesn't have a label though. Here is one more I'll post.

 

[Harry Pristis]

Great Kilmers. I got one packed away somewhere's . Mine doesn't have a label though. Here is one more I'll post.

That's ironic, 'Road Dog' -- I think I have a "Favorite Prescription" put away somewhere. I didn't know that this was a "female remedy." What does the faded red ink in the middle of the label say?? I can't make it out. Glad to learn something!

Here is a homeopathic medicine from St. Louis. This homeopath set up shop in St. Louis in the 1840s and supplied the settlers moving west through the "Gateway City." I believe the company is still in operation. These bottles date to the late 1800s - TOC.

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[Road Dog]

Top part reads FAVORITE. The other part reads CHRONIC WEAKNESSES. Kool the is in pencil written on the label it reads Horse Tonic. Lots of these old bottles got used for other things after their orignal contents were gone. I've had a Saratoga mineral water with a Doctor's Label on it.

Nice light color on that bottle. Trying to work towards Yellow.

 

[Harry Pristis]

Top part reads FAVORITE. The other part reads CHRONIC WEAKNESSES. Kool the is in pencil written on the label it reads Horse Tonic. Lots of these old bottles got used for other things after their orignal contents were gone. I've had a Saratoga mineral water with a Doctor's Label on it.

Nice light color on that bottle. Trying to work towards Yellow.

Horse tonic . . . yes, now I see it. A prescription for "chronic weaknesses" . . . I'd bet that it had cocaine in it!! Thanks for the additional info.

The smaller LUYTIES bottle appears opaque because it is full of milk of sugar. I think it's a bit darker amber than the taller bottle anyway.

 

[Harry Pristis]

Here's another labelled bottle, this one a cologne or perfume.

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[HolyDiver]

Those bottle are amazing! Nice finds.

 

[Road Dog]

Pretty Fancy Dancy Perfume you got there. Great condition.

Here is a Shoe Polish with an intact label.

 

[Harry Pristis]

Pretty Fancy Dancy Perfume you got there. Great condition.

Here is a Shoe Polish with an intact label.

Nice shoe polish label! I think we underestimate how common such bottles are because it's so uncommon to find a label. Shoe dressing, harness dressing, even stove dressing were ubiquitous from our nation's founding.

The much renowned T. W. Dyott of Dyottville Glass Works fame is reported to have "served an apprenticeship to an English druggist from whom he learned 'the art of making boot-blacking'." That would have been in the late 1700s. Dyott arrived in Philadelphia in 1804.

These two bottles, already posted in another thread, are blacking bottles from the first part of the 1800s.

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[allen]

dont think id drink what is inside of that bottle !