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Is this a medicine? - 8/25/2008 2:50:08 PM    justadddirt   Posts: 523 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: West Central Penna. Status: offline Need some info on the bottle pictured on the left.. I thought that maybe it was a liquor bottle but the guy I bought it from said it was a medicine. The bottle is 10" tall & about a quart in size. Any help would be appreciated Attachment (1) _____________________________ Gary Post #: 1

RE: Is this a medicine? - 8/25/2008 2:52:07 PM    justadddirt   Posts: 523 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: West Central Penna. Status: offline Embossing Attachment (1) _____________________________ Gary (in reply to justadddirt) Post #: 2

RE: Is this a medicine? - 8/25/2008 2:55:18 PM    justadddirt   Posts: 523 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: West Central Penna. Status: offline Shoulder Attachment (1) _____________________________ Gary (in reply to justadddirt) Post #: 3

RE: Is this a medicine? - 8/25/2008 2:56:32 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 5444 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: online Yes its a large druggist. I would love to find one of those. _____________________________ Looking for Frederick Maryland and Dr Fahrney Bottles email http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/email.jpg (in reply to justadddirt) Post #: 4

RE: Is this a medicine? - 8/25/2008 2:57:15 PM    Wilkie Posts: 493 Joined: 5/2/2008 From: Suisun City, CA Status: offline Aschenbach & Miller's catalogue for confectioners : a price list of flavors, fruit juices, essential oils, drugs, scales and confectioners machines, moulas, etc. by Aschenbach & Miller. Publisher:  Philadelphia, Pa. : The Company, 1868. Quantity/Description:  24 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Subjects:  Confectionery -- Appliances, utensils, etc. Flavoring essences Subjects (Local):  Philadelphia, Pa. General Notes:  "No. 58". Local Note:  Accession no. 90.228.236. Digger Odell has them listed as a wholesale druggist, Aschenbach & Miller, 3d and Callowhill sts PHILADELPHIA and if you go by the information I posted above, I guess it could be a flavoring or extract of some sort, or it could be a drug concoction of some sort.  By the shape and size, I'd go with a fruit flavoring. < Message edited by Wilkie -- 8/25/2008 3:03:55 PM > _____________________________ www.myspace.com/westernbottles I buy samples, Jamaica Gingers from anywhere and Northern California hutches, blob tops. (in reply to justadddirt) Post #: 5

RE: Is this a medicine? - 8/25/2008 2:58:14 PM    justadddirt   Posts: 523 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: West Central Penna. Status: offline Applied mouth Attachment (1) _____________________________ Gary (in reply to justadddirt) Post #: 6

RE: Is this a medicine? - 8/25/2008 3:36:54 PM    marjorie040 Posts: 385 Joined: 12/3/2006 Status: offline Gary, According to the American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record for 1901 Ashenbach and Miller had a pretty good bowling team too! Attachment (1) _____________________________ marjorie040 McClellanville, sc (in reply to justadddirt) Post #: 7

RE: Is this a medicine? - 8/25/2008 3:43:16 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 5444 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: online That's funny, all the big names. I think Wampole was drinking too much of his own cure _____________________________ Looking for Frederick Maryland and Dr Fahrney Bottles email http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/email.jpg (in reply to marjorie040) Post #: 8

RE: Is this a medicine? - 8/25/2008 5:58:41 PM    justadddirt   Posts: 523 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: West Central Penna. Status: offline Thanks for the info GuntherHess. If I didn't like this bottle so much i'd make a trade. think I got a good buy. Paid $25.00 for it.Too much? Wonder when it was made? My guess 1880s - 90s. _____________________________ Gary (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 9

RE: Is this a medicine? - 8/25/2008 6:32:01 PM    justadddirt   Posts: 523 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: West Central Penna. Status: offline Man Wilkie that was fast. I didn't even get all of my pics posted & you have the info I need. Thanks a lot!!! _____________________________ Gary (in reply to justadddirt) Post #: 10

RE: Is this a medicine? - 8/25/2008 6:34:30 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 5444 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: online quote: Wonder when it was made? With an applied lip like that you are typically looking at early 1880s or before... _____________________________ Looking for Frederick Maryland and Dr Fahrney Bottles email http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/email.jpg (in reply to justadddirt) Post #: 11

RE: Is this a medicine? - 8/25/2008 6:40:17 PM    justadddirt   Posts: 523 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: West Central Penna. Status: offline marjorie040 if some of those guys were bowling today they'd probably be millionaires. _____________________________ Gary (in reply to justadddirt) Post #: 12

RE: Is this a medicine? - 8/26/2008 6:36:03 PM    Lordbud   Posts: 309 Joined: 6/16/2005 From: San Jose Status: offline The close up of the applied lip shows what looks like a pouring spout(?) $25 sounds very reasonable for the bottle in your picture, it is a beauty. (in reply to justadddirt) Post #: 13

RE: Is this a medicine? - 8/26/2008 10:04:51 PM    justadddirt   Posts: 523 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: West Central Penna. Status: offline Thanks GuntherHess for the info on the age. Little older than I thought. _____________________________ Gary (in reply to Lordbud) Post #: 14

RE: Is this a medicine? - 8/26/2008 10:18:02 PM    justadddirt   Posts: 523 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: West Central Penna. Status: offline Lordbud I think you're right about a pour spout. Lookss like the glass blower made a halfhearted attempt to make a pour spout. Here's a pic of the top. Lower right of the top you can see where it's concaved. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Gary (in reply to justadddirt) Post #: 15

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