McCormick Poison...

[1more4me]

Niffty little poison bottle found recently. Not worth much, but traingle shape makes it a keeper for me...

 

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[Harry Pristis]

I'm fond of my example:

 

[1more4me]

I'm fond of my example:

NICE- yours is definitely pre-1902. Dandy for sure.

 

[epackage]

Why are you calling it a poison?

 

[1more4me]

Why are you calling it a poison?

No particular reason - seen this blue bee bottle called medicine and poison in different places- not sure what it actually had in it...
Tell us if you know?

 

[epackage]

I'm unaware of McCormick making a poison, my guess would be something else, what that would be I don't know...

 

[epackage]

No particular reason - seen this blue bee bottle called medicine and poison in different places- not sure what it actually had in it...
Tell us if you know?

OK 1more, looks like you are correct based on what I just found on ABN....

"The KT-14 is the well-known and popular McCormick & Company Bee Brand Bottle, a cobalt bottle embossed with a bee that exists in both cork-top and screw-top versions. There also are two different embossings, one with a 'Patent Applied For' and the other with a 'Patented July 8th 1902' which reflects the approximate age of the bottle. A turn-of-the-century magazine advertisement for the KT-14 shows a cork-topped bottle and reveals that the product being sold was laudanum (a solution of opium in alcohol). The ad notes that the bottle's cobalt color and triangular shape eliminates all danger of getting hold of the wrong bottle. Again, the goal was to warn of danger by bottle color and shape, not by difficult-to-open tops." From Poison Land by Mike Dickman.

 

[Georgivs]

I love those cobalt bottles! Also love McCormicks spices

 

[1more4me]

Good research epackage - Laudanum (opium) was dang close to poison... Reckon modern McCormicks blends are free of opium since they are regular shaped...

 

[fistfulladirt]

Back then it wasn’t a poison, it was a good time!