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Clairvoyant Doctress - 5/18/2008 5:44:28 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 4902 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline This is an interesting bottle I picked up today. Mrs J H R Matteson Clairvoyant Remedies Buffalo NY. Not only is it a patent medicine but its formula is based on the occult. Mrs Matteson was an interesting charactor, big in the spiritualist movement of the 19th century. From the stories I read it sounds like she may have bumped off her husband.  Anyone seen one of these before? Some info ... http://books.google.com/books?id=sComGoDFJZ4C&pg=PA208&lpg=PA208&dq=%22matteson%22+clairvoyant+remedies&source=web&ots=hA5sGteQu0&sig=NO40hgbupiAfK8X7N_nTJ5g7jis&hl=en Attachment (1) _____________________________ Looking for Frederick Maryland and Dr Fahrney Bottles 2008 Medicine Bottle Price Guide on CDROM http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/BottleBook2008.htm email http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/email.jpg Post #: 1

RE: Clairvoyant Doctress - 5/18/2008 6:58:21 PM    Gordon Posts: 43 Joined: 6/23/2007 Status: offline Never seen but Nice bottle & a great story. Now you need to find the psychic remedies variant. (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 2

RE: Clairvoyant Doctress - 5/18/2008 7:10:04 PM    RedGinger   Posts: 920 Joined: 12/7/2007 Status: offline I wonder if she had any connection to Lillydale, the big psychic community near Buffalo. _____________________________ [link] [/link] (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 3

RE: Clairvoyant Doctress - 5/18/2008 7:12:28 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 4902 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline I saw she was listed with several spiritualist organizations. Just the sort of thing Houdini was fighting against Here is a different variant of the bottle ... http://www.skeptiseum.org/exhibits/psychic%20phenomena/ClairvoyantDoctress.html _____________________________ Looking for Frederick Maryland and Dr Fahrney Bottles 2008 Medicine Bottle Price Guide on CDROM http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/BottleBook2008.htm email http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/email.jpg (in reply to RedGinger) Post #: 4

RE: Clairvoyant Doctress - 5/18/2008 7:17:51 PM    RedGinger   Posts: 920 Joined: 12/7/2007 Status: offline she married a blind musician in 1864. After his death twenty years later, she became sole support of her family. Well, that explains it.  Nice bottle.  _____________________________ [link] [/link] (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 5

RE: Clairvoyant Doctress - 5/18/2008 11:15:54 PM    capsoda Posts: 7703 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Ah yes, I can see it now......... I can see that you are in deep need of healing so taky my Clarvoyant remedy and you are Healing...healing...healing....... Look lady, just sign for the box so I can go to lunch!!!  _____________________________ 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 RedGinger) Post #: 6

RE: Clairvoyant Doctress - 5/18/2008 11:31:55 PM    CWBookAuthor   Posts: 23 Joined: 7/5/2007 Status: offline I dug one like yours in Jamestown, N.Y., many years ago. Until yours  came out, I had never seen another.  Congratultions, you've got a real keeper! _____________________________ Mike Russell, Author of The Collector's Guide to Civil War Bottles (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 7

RE: Clairvoyant Doctress - 5/19/2008 10:40:32 AM    Stardust   Posts: 593 Joined: 10/5/2007 Status: offline Nice find! I'd like to have that bottle  in my collection. But it's really nothing more than snake oil when you think about it.   < Message edited by Stardust -- 5/21/2008 6:41:11 PM > _____________________________ My supporter tag is missing again for the second time. I don't care anymore. I'm too ill to answer any more e-mails at this time..... (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 8

RE: Clairvoyant Doctress - 5/21/2008 1:25:03 AM    JGUIS   Posts: 1700 Joined: 3/18/2006 From: New Lexington, OH Status: offline quote: ORIGINAL: Stardust If anyone wants some I can give you a number of a wonderful rep.   Peddling Snake Oil; Investigative Files (Skeptical Briefs December 1998) http://www.csicop.org/sb/9812/snakeoil.html   Very cool "out of the ordinary" bottle, nice find. < Message edited by JGUIS -- 5/21/2008 1:26:48 AM > _____________________________ A pipe gives a wise man time to think, and gives a fool something to stick in his mouth. (in reply to Stardust) Post #: 9

RE: Clairvoyant Doctress - 5/21/2008 10:54:06 AM    Lordbud   Posts: 230 Joined: 6/16/2005 From: San Jose Status: offline Worst thing about those "skeptic" sites is that they go well beyond a healthy skepticism and try to rewrite history and the truth, basically muddying the waters for those that prefer to be told what to think.  As far as being skeptical of "snake oil", that should just be common sense. (in reply to JGUIS) Post #: 10

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