"Sedaline" bottle, please help ID

yaxthri

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Hey there glass lovers.

I've already posted this finds of mine in the "What's it" forum but today it occured to me that I had seen a "Bottles & Glass" forum at some point and I checked again and "voila"...
So I'll repost this here, too, for the more specialized folks to see...

I went out on a walk some days ago to one of my “hunting spots”, a hillside overlooking the seashore with some dugout trenches near a former WW2 machine gun bunker where I have found before some spent shell cases and barbed wire etc.
Today I found absolutely nothing of that kind but I made two odd trench finds.

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The glass bottle was under a bush near the trenches. The cursive raised inscription reads “Sedaline”, there’s a “52” on the bottom of the octagonal bottle and a makers mark and the black plastic screw-cap has a “Vita” logo on top. Glass looks old, has this irridescent glow all over it. The bottle is about 17cm (~6 1/2 inch) tall and 6cm (~2 1/2 inch) wide.
My other find is a brass lipstick case/tube ignore it it's been IDed.

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On the next day I found this shard of glass with a manufacturers mark and a "7" on each side of it on it and I immediately realised this shard had the same mark as the bottom of the bottle I found yesterday!
What are the odds to that happening by accident at two diffrent WW2 locations? This mark looks like a capital "Y" with 2 prongs protruding from the base as one can see in the attached picture.

Some fellow TNeters have suggested Sedaline to be a cough syrup and one can google a Sedaline (Sedalin) horse tranquilizer. But I'd love a more accurate identification if possible... Or maybe someone can ID the makers mark at least.

Thanks in advance.
 

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