Dr. Pengellys Womans Friend, Improved!

[curbdiggercarl57]

Dr. Pengelly's Woman's Friend, Improved!

Greetings and Happy Holidays!
Just got home after a semi-decent dig, one Denver pharm, and a few of the usual commons.
Did manage one cool bottle, clear, with the embossing "Dr. Pengelly's Woman's Friend, Improved", Kalamazoo MI.
I know he had some connection with the "Zoa-Phora" bottle, but this is different.
Trying to clean the bottle up, but here's a crappy photo. (I can't seem to get decent photos of clear bottles without setting up a stand.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Carl
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[Gunrunner61]

Can't help but! can tell you it's a cool find.....................HH

 

[digging440yrs]

WOMENS FRIEND---IM SURE IT WAS 80% BOOZE---LOL---NEAT BOTTLE---

 

[jeff of pa]

snake oil...... "Zoa Phora" ?

billed as "The Woman's Friend. contained as much alcohol as a bottle of whiskey!the man who started marketing this elixir was a Methodist minister who turned physician named Dr. Richard Pengelly. And his wife, Mary E. Pengelly, was the leader of the local Women's's Christian Temperance Union. The W.C.T.U. was the leading organization that pushed for the prohibition of acholic beverages.

obviously created so the women against alcohol could still get faced,
and continue to fight against men getting drunk too


Newsletter - Traditional

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

snake oil...... "Zoa Phora" ?

billed as "The Woman's Friend. contained as much alcohol as a bottle of whiskey!the man who started marketing this elixir was a Methodist minister who turned physician named Dr. Richard Pengelly. And his wife, Mary E. Pengelly, was the leader of the local Women's's Christian Temperance Union. The W.C.T.U. was the leading organization that pushed for the prohibition of acholic beverages.

obviously created so the women against alcohol could still get faced,
and continue to fight against men getting drunk too


Newsletter - Traditional

That's the information that I found as well, but nothing about this bottle. I think it's from the late 1880's to TOC, hard to date because we've been digging stuff all mixed up, date-wise.
(Dug a 1925 Denver "Lenz Bros Dairy Farm" Quart milk bottle that is from 1925.
The seam makes it appear to be an 1880-1890 bottle.
This one is stumping me!
Carl

 

[BuckleBoy]

Great Bottle!!!

 

[capt-zero]

On your photos, you might try a photo under natural light with a bright window light at about 100 degrees from your focal plane. In other words, place your subject to the side of and a little in front of or behind a brightly lit window.

 

[texjim]

try taking a pic of the bottle with a dark back ground. nice bottle

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

Plan to post a photo of all the bottles dug so far at this site so as I'm done soaking and cleaning them.
Nothing too rare or unusual yet, but something will turn up.
The site has got to be the dustiest dig ever, the soil is like talcum powder, I cut up an old flannel bed sheet to use as a filter mask,
Cheap, smells good, and I look freaking dashing.
And it seems to scare away the local bangers.
Carl

 

[Bramblefind]

I did a newspaper search and the Woman's Friend hits start in late 1880 and go through 1881 and then I found it being billed as "Zoa Phora" (ad says "Long Known as Pengelly's Woman's Friend") starting in 1882.

This ad is from 12/24/1880 Elkhart (IN) Daily Review.

 

[jeff of pa]

Mothers of Drooping Daughters ?

Give the Daughter a couple shots & send her out to her friends,
she won't be drooping for long

Better yet Give her a bottle so she can "medicate" her friends too

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

Hey guys, thanks for all the input and info, still trying to track this one down.
Bramble, I think there is a separate Zoa's bottle, later than mine.
But I'm not positive.
Here are some better pictures, the bottle is about 8 1/2" tall, and 2 3/4" wide, square.
I see no lines running up the seam of the neck, may have been wiped.
The bottom is not pontiled, just a slight round indent.

Carl

 

[TreasureNetGuppyFish]

I am womans' friend. Nice silver, bro.

 

[seychik]

That cleaned up great Carl. Nice initials scripting of R. Pengelly & Co. to really make that bottle look cool. Love the 1880s embossed! Cindy (I'm still down on ash/talc at the 'dust bowl')

 

[oldsalty19]

but nice

 

[Lloydd]

Carl
Glad to see you are still out hunting. The weather hasn't stopped you yet! I have not been out much since Oct. recuperating from surgery and now cold weather. Went to Bahamas, not much found except a silver ring which was returned to owner the same day it was lost posted a picture here. Then a seated dime and half-dime found in my field here and posted on TN as well. I like your bottle, have not found any since those in the lake with you. Lloyd

 

[CMDiamonddawg]

Woman Friend bottle from Kalamazoo is an xceptional bottle dig . Lookin' at your avatar

has me thinkin' , the ol Kentucky Colonel was a woman's friend , as well

CMD

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

Carl
Glad to see you are still out hunting. The weather hasn't stopped you yet! I have not been out much since Oct. recuperating from surgery and now cold weather. Went to Bahamas, not much found except a silver ring which was returned to owner the same day it was lost posted a picture here. Then a seated dime and half-dime found in my field here and posted on TN as well. I like your bottle, have not found any since those in the lake with you. Lloyd

Good to hear from you Lloydd, sorry we missed each other the last time you came out here.
Sorry about the surgery, but hey you got to recuperate in the Bahamas! Ground is rock hard here, no real snow though. Miss that lake, did you get a chance to read the Silver & Gold issue? Had great photos taken by a bunch of people that were there.

 

[TreasureNetGuppyFish]

I also found Dr. Mengele's Woman Friend bottle. Would this work in making a lamp?