Seems like you covered all the categories except for bitters!

[glassrelics]

Check out this Drake's cabin style bitters! Lets see your bitters bottles!

 

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[Harry Pristis]

Nice Plantation Bitters bottle! Good color!

Here's one without color, but the trade card is interesting.

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[glassrelics]

Having a trade card to go with the bottle is very cool. That looks like a rare one. I know bottles with the price embossed on them usually go real good.

 

[Road Dog]

Nice Drakes! Had one , but I sold it.

Nice Combo there Harry. 25 cents was pretty cheap considering what alot of the concoctions cost in those days.

I have a bitters or three around the house somewheres. I'll post them when I find them.

 

[Road Dog]

I have common types Mandrakes and Atwoods. Here is a SO Richardson and a Hooflands (open pontil). I just found this Sample Atwoods in the Cabinet.

 

[john glassman]

I have dug bitter's bottle here's a sample bitter's bottle it's old!

 

[Road Dog]

Nice one. I have the regular cylinder flange lip version of that one.

 

[Harry Pristis]

Nice one. I have the regular cylinder flange lip version of that one.

Is this the bottle?

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[Road Dog]

Yep, sure is.

 

[glassrelics]

Here is a cool deep amber Langley's I dug a couple years back and tumbled. I think this one is an unusual variant. It has a crude key-mold base. It sold for over $100 on fee-bay.

 

[Road Dog]

Nice! I'd have bought it.

 

[Harry Pristis]

Nice amber Langley's!

Here's a fairly uncommon ARABIAN BITTERS from Savannah. This is one of a pair I found resting next to one another.

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[Harry Pristis]

Here's a pretty Lash's Kidney and Liver Bitters.

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[Harry Pristis]

This pontil-scarred bitters bottle is difficult (for me) to photograph because of the colorless glass and heavy embossing.

It is embossed DR. HOOFLAND'S / GERMAN BITTERS // LIVER COMPLAINT // C. M. JACKSON / PHILADELPHIA // DYSPEPSIA & C.

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[Harry Pristis]

I just know that there are more bitters bottles in your collections! Come on!

Here's another common bitters, a Doyles Hop Bitters. (It must have been a mold-maker's short-cut to leave out the apostrophe in "Doyle's.")

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[undertaker]

Here's a few common ones I own.

 

[Harry Pristis]

That's quite an exaggerated lip on the Langley's, 'undertaker'! I like it.

I always think of my Tippecanoe bottle as a bitters; but, it is actually a medicine bottle. H. H. Warner used distinctive bottle shapes such as for his Warner's Safe Cure (etc.).

I am fond of this little Phoenix Bitters bottle:

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[Harry Pristis]

Here's another Phoenix Bitters that I like. This one is earlier than the colorless example above.

This little bottle is very dark - black glass - and is difficult to photograph. After many tries, here it is:

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[Harry Pristis]

Joshua C. Michel of St. Louis, Mo., was in the wholesale grocery business for several years with Mathew Moody. Michel put West India Stomach Bitters on the market in 1873 and obtained a patent on February 8, 1876. That year Michel dropped out of the grocery business and became a broker for the bitters and apparently some other West India medicines that I have no information about.

West India Stomach Bitters was in drug catalogs from 1882 through 1902. There are 1 cent and 4 cent revenue stamps giving Moody, Michel and Co. Proprietors, St. Louis, Mo., and 4 cent revenue stamps giving West India Manufacturing Co. Proprietors, St. Louis, Mo. There are also 2 extremely rare variants embossed West India / Stomach Bitters // // Moody Michel & Co / St Louis, 8 1/2 inches tall
and West India Stomach / Bitters // // Moody Michel & Co / St Louis, 8 3/4 inches tall. Both are amber and square.

---from The Medicine Chest by Dr. Richard Cannon

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[Harry Pristis]

Here's another bitters that I recovered here in Florida. I believe that Beggs used this bottle while he operated in Chicago.

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