villagenut
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Had a short hunt this evening at my old standby lot concentrated on deep iron signals, giving me an old hammer(hopefully hand forged) and a few large hinges and some sherds of glazed and unglazed porcelain and some earthenware. I go here and purposely dig the iron for it is my passion to rescue the good ones and restore them, this is all historic properties and well documented as to who lived where and when...yadayada. The bottle like many I find here was found by probing the already open deep hole. Below the dug hole was this medicine bottle. It is always a pot shot as to finding them this way but it works. This was the side of the home where the trash was all thrown. A huge trash pit you might say.Doctor Pierce put this "Favorite Prescription" out there for women who suffered nervous irritation due to menstruation each month. It was claimed to have opium and alcohol in it so it was no wonder it worked well to calm the woman of the house down....I wanta bottle for my wif...never mind. Anyways I will post pics of them cleaned up a bit later. Does anyone recognize what the brass strip may have been? It is unadorned, no writing, no numbers but the two ends are beveled. It is exactly twelve inches long...maybe a straight edge, a ruler for measuring feet only? Or just a scrap piece of brass ? Thanks for lookin', vn
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