I dug my biggest local druggist bottle

[john glassman]

This bottle is a 3XV1 or 12inches tall in size and wide as a brick and heavy it's the biggest one in my display case now.

 

[jrsherman]

Beautiful bottle John, excellent cleaning job! Looks like a good one to sit in the sun for a little while too!

 

[seger98]

Nice bottle, how about a picture of the display case?

 

[DigginThePast]

Cool bottle. I guess "The Big Drug Store" had big bottles.

 

[treasurefiend]

Very nice addition!!!!

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

john glassman,

very ncie; a big CONGRAT on that
find.
Thanks for posting.

have a good un......
SHERMANVILLE

 

[Harry Pristis]

This bottle is a 3XV1 or 12inches tall in size and wide as a brick and heavy it's the biggest one in my display case now.

Nice find! It's very difficult to find these big druggist bottles, so I don't doubt it has a prominent place in your collection.

Here's the biggist druggist bottle on my shelf. I believe that Riker-Hegeman was a New York druggist.

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[john glassman]

I have a clear one the same size riker as you but the make a bigger one too!!

 

[ink-a-alot]

I have a clear one the same size riker as you but the make a bigger one too!!

Man you sure are finding some good bottles! I think i have one like that.

 

[Harry Pristis]

I have a clear one the same size riker as you but the make a bigger one too!!

I wonder what the druggists compounded in such volume. It would allow many small doses or a few large doses, whatever it was.

 

[Harry Pristis]

Here's an alternative medicine bottle, a homeopathic medicine bottle from LUYTIES ("loo.tees") in St. Louis. Luyties had set up his compounding drug store in the 1840s, and supplied homeopathic medicines to pioneers headed west.

Both bottles are embossed LUYTIES vertically. The smaller bottle is chock-full of a white powder and is labeled "Milk of Sugar" on a paper label.

I'd guess that these bottles show up in the Midwest and West more often than here in the Southeast. Anyone here with other variants of these LUYTIES bottles?

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[River Rat]

Beautiful find, John. That bottle is awesome

RR

 

[HolyDiver]

That bottle is huge. Nice dig.

 

[Leeame]

Cool bottle. I guess "The Big Drug Store" had big bottles.

You beat me to the punch-line.

Great find


Lisa