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Liver pills? - 9/10/2009 12:02:11 PM   
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  anyone know about this bottle?




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RE: Liver pills? - 9/10/2009 12:27:22 PM   
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I have only heard of these. Oddly enough, it was from an old LP my dad had of Dr. Murray Banks. He mentioned these in one of his stories. He was a Comedic Psychologist who traveled around enlightening people back in the 50's and '60s. Now I'm sure most med collectors have an example of these (or know about them) as they were popular back in the day, from what I gather.

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RE: Liver pills? - 9/10/2009 1:13:01 PM   
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Very cool bottle. I like bottles that have odd wording like that. I know nothing about it nor have I ever seen one but I'm very interested in knowing more about it.

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RE: Liver pills? - 9/10/2009 1:14:37 PM   
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I don't believe that actually contained pills though, that was more likely a liquid but the company was probably known for their pills.

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RE: Liver pills? - 9/10/2009 4:42:49 PM   
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LOVE IT!!! What a great bit of embossing, really makes an otherwise way-common med into something special!! My guess is that they're trying to say if Carter makes such effective pills, then this liquid version must be equally good...

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RE: Liver pills? - 9/10/2009 5:25:52 PM   
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The same "CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS"? Which they were famous for. jamie

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RE: Liver pills? - 9/10/2009 7:59:20 PM   
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That is a very cool bottle. No idea where it is from though.

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RE: Liver pills? - 9/14/2009 9:55:36 AM   
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Thank you all for the replies. I'm still trying to find info and if anything comes up i'll post it.

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RE: Liver pills? - 9/14/2009 3:15:11 PM   
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All my life I heard the expression "He's got more money than Carter's got liver pills".  Back in the 80's when my grandmother died we were cleaning out her house and I found this bottle of Carter's Little Liver Pills, with cork, label and its orginal contents.  The pills look kinda like okra seed.  Sorry for the blury pic, I just snapped a shot with my blackberry.

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RE: Liver pills? - 9/14/2009 3:47:29 PM   
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Same here DiggerRL. The bad thing about that is i always thought people were talking about Billy Carter and his drinking? Never asked what it really meant!

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RE: Liver pills? - 9/14/2009 4:00:07 PM   
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Check out article 146 on this link, thanks to FloridaRecycled 

http://cecilmunsey.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=18&dir=ASC&order=name&Itemid=34&limit=20&limitstart=40

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RE: Liver pills? - 9/14/2009 4:34:36 PM   
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The bottle form is a standard pharmacy style so i would doubt it is associated with the Carter's Liver Pills patent medicine.

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RE: Liver pills? - 9/14/2009 4:53:05 PM   
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NICE! I love little bottles like that. Any embossing or just a label?


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All my life I heard the expression "He's got more money than Carter's got liver pills".  Back in the 80's when my grandmother died we were cleaning out her house and I found this bottle of Carter's Little Liver Pills, with cork, label and its orginal contents.  The pills look kinda like okra seed.  Sorry for the blury pic, I just snapped a shot with my blackberry.

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RE: Liver pills? - 9/14/2009 5:53:52 PM   
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I have several of the bottles, just a label, the pills are about the size of a BB. I'll see if I can get a pic of one of their ads later. Here it is mid 1880's.






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RE: Liver pills? - 9/14/2009 6:25:07 PM   
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Anyone a collector around Selma, Alabama? I got information from antiquemedicines.com that this was probably a local drug bottle. I was handed down a bunch of bottles from Selma and this was one of them. No city on bottle so i took a stab, and i'll be there is a Carter  Drug Company in Selma. I called two antique stores and they knew nothing about bottles, but said the drug store had been there for well over a hundred years. I then called the store, but they changed ownership and want me to send them an e-mail with a picture of the bottle. The person i talked to had not heard of the slogan. Maybe on to something, maybe not. Regardless, thanks to antiquemedicines.com!

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RE: Liver pills? - 9/14/2009 6:28:22 PM   
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Hey cc6pack, you sure that's not Blue Star Ointment!

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RE: Liver pills? - 9/14/2009 6:47:55 PM   
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Positive, it's not Blue Star. I agree with the others the Carter's Little Liver pills have nothing to do with your bottle, is it ABM or Blown?

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RE: Liver pills? - 9/14/2009 7:21:37 PM   
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Hold the phone on the "over hundred year old" drug store. Saw on a site called Manta that the company was formed in 1937. 2009-1937 is... not over a hundred. Sorry cc6pack, still trying to learn. Does the fact that there are measurements on the bottle lend any credence to age? Seam does not go through top. My uneducated guess is abm because it is so uniform. Told you i was still learning!

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RE: Liver pills? - 9/14/2009 8:25:56 PM   
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It looks like the style used in the first decade of the 20th century. A late tooled lip in the Paris pharmacy form.
It was typical for pharmacies to use use slogans. They also started putting phone numbers on the ones in bigger cities. Assuming its hand blown, it is likely to be earlier than 1937.

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RE: Liver pills? - 9/14/2009 9:13:00 PM   
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anything on the bottom, and can you get a pic of the bottom, it may help.

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