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Another one! - 2/5/2007 10:39:42 PM    Jim Posts: 2429 Joined: 7/5/2005 From: Lewistown, PA Status: online This beauty arrived safe and sound today. This is an 8-oz Melvin & Badger KI-2 poison with 90% of its original label. Not a rare bottle, but not all that common either. I caught the eBay community sleeping and got this one for about a third of its actual value . My Melvin & Badger set now has three different sizes. ~Jim Attachment (1) _____________________________ Preserving our buried history, one pit at a time. http://www.freewebs.com/lewistownbottles/index.htm Post #: 1

RE: Another one! - 2/5/2007 10:41:55 PM    Jim Posts: 2429 Joined: 7/5/2005 From: Lewistown, PA Status: online Wow, I just realized that I really need to dust the top of my cabinet . Here is another view. The 8-oz are 6 1/4" high, and considerably wider than the smaller ones. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Preserving our buried history, one pit at a time. http://www.freewebs.com/lewistownbottles/index.htm (in reply to Jim) Post #: 2

RE: Another one! - 2/5/2007 10:44:04 PM    Jim Posts: 2429 Joined: 7/5/2005 From: Lewistown, PA Status: online Here is the label. I have seen several different styles of Melvin & Badger labels on these bottles. This appears to be an older one. Thanks and enjoy! ~Jim Attachment (1) _____________________________ Preserving our buried history, one pit at a time. http://www.freewebs.com/lewistownbottles/index.htm (in reply to Jim) Post #: 3

RE: Another one! - 2/5/2007 10:51:49 PM    Tony14 Posts: 2477 Joined: 2/15/2005 From: Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Status: offline Very nice Jim! Can  i see a pic of the grouping of those guys? _____________________________ Looking for any Fond du Lac bottle. Also looking for any embossed wisconsin medicines. And any Carters cone inks (in reply to Jim) Post #: 4

RE: Another one! - 2/5/2007 10:55:07 PM    Jim Posts: 2429 Joined: 7/5/2005 From: Lewistown, PA Status: online Thanks, Tony. I'll add a new group pic for you. ~Jim Cool...My 1000th post . < Message edited by Jim -- 2/5/2007 10:59:17 PM > _____________________________ Preserving our buried history, one pit at a time. http://www.freewebs.com/lewistownbottles/index.htm (in reply to Tony14) Post #: 5

RE: Another one! - 2/5/2007 11:01:07 PM    Jim Posts: 2429 Joined: 7/5/2005 From: Lewistown, PA Status: online Here they are- 3, 4 and 8-oz. The 4 is fairly common, the 8 less common and the 3 is a rare size for this bottle. ~Jim Attachment (1) _____________________________ Preserving our buried history, one pit at a time. http://www.freewebs.com/lewistownbottles/index.htm (in reply to Jim) Post #: 6

RE: Another one! - 2/5/2007 11:02:57 PM    Tony14 Posts: 2477 Joined: 2/15/2005 From: Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Status: offline Vey nice!!! _____________________________ Looking for any Fond du Lac bottle. Also looking for any embossed wisconsin medicines. And any Carters cone inks (in reply to Jim) Post #: 7

RE: Another one! - 2/5/2007 11:14:38 PM    capsoda Posts: 7914 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: online Very Nice set Jim. Love the apothecary lable. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to Tony14) Post #: 8

RE: Another one! - 2/6/2007 2:46:16 PM    bearswede Posts: 2910 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline Great group, Jim... Are there any other sizes? Ron _____________________________ "I LOVE Wolfies!!!!!!!!!!!!" (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 9

RE: Another one! - 2/6/2007 3:23:13 PM    Jim Posts: 2429 Joined: 7/5/2005 From: Lewistown, PA Status: online Thanks, guys. The Melvin & Badger KI-2 is known to exist in nine of the ten sizes for these bottles. There are 1/2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12 and 16 oz sizes. They are not known to have had a 32-oz. The 1/2, 12 and 16 are the rarest, then the 3 and 6, then the 1 and 2, then the 8, and the 4 is most common. Here is a full set from the collection of my good friend Jerry Jones. It is the only complete set of Melvin & Badgers that I know of. ~Jim Attachment (1) _____________________________ Preserving our buried history, one pit at a time. http://www.freewebs.com/lewistownbottles/index.htm (in reply to bearswede) Post #: 10

RE: Another one! - 2/6/2007 3:28:52 PM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2027 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline What is the bottle to the far right of the first picture. It says "THOS Mc????. Is it a Mcrystal from wheeling. I thought I saw wh????on the bottle also. _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to Jim) Post #: 11

RE: Another one! - 2/6/2007 7:46:24 PM    Jim Posts: 2429 Joined: 7/5/2005 From: Lewistown, PA Status: online Hi Zane, That one is a Thos. McMullen & Co's White Label acid-etched ale bottle that I dug this past summer. They are fairly common, but it is a beautiful bottle! ~Jim _____________________________ Preserving our buried history, one pit at a time. http://www.freewebs.com/lewistownbottles/index.htm (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 12

RE: Another one! - 2/9/2007 10:29:58 PM    downeastdigger Posts: 1404 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline HI guys I live near Boston, and lived in Boston a few years back, and found the Melvin and Badger Drug store in the North End, right on the waterfront.  It is gone now.  Back then, ( in the 80s ) I was working a delivery job ,  and on my break, I went in and tried to talk to the girl at the cash register about the history of the store she was working in.  I told her about Melvin and Badger drug store bottles ete etc.  She had a big ear ring in her ear, and black eye make up, etc, and looked at me like I was some alien from another planet and another time.  It was kind of sad.  Oh well.  I guess I shouldn't  be so cynical. I'm glad we are  part of a group of people who are holding on to physical proof of bye gone days.  I guess it's not her fault.  I guess I should just say Thank God for bottle collecting, to hang on to some physical proof of the past. Bram _____________________________ Bram Get busy diggin, or get busy dyin' http://www.GreatBayCatering.com (in reply to Jim) Post #: 13

RE: Another one! - 2/9/2007 10:44:39 PM    Jim Posts: 2429 Joined: 7/5/2005 From: Lewistown, PA Status: online Very interesting, Bram. I never knew that Melvin & Badger was around that long. The home of another one of these poisons, Billings and Stover, just closed in 2002. I wonder if there are any of the 28 known proprietors for these bottles that are still around. I know that some of them were bought out by bigger companies, and a lot of the small ones just fell by the wayside. With the coming of high overhead costs and ridiculous taxes and regulations on small businesses, mostly just the "big boys" were able to survive. The factory that manufactured all of these beauties just went bankrupt in 2003. By collecting these treasures that were once just empty junk bottles, we are indeed preserving history and having a lot of fun in the process . ~Jim _____________________________ Preserving our buried history, one pit at a time. http://www.freewebs.com/lewistownbottles/index.htm (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 14

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