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MS Druggist - 12/22/2011 10:22:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		Got this one off ebay the other day.My goal for now is to get a bottle from every MS town but im a good ways away from that........embossing reads.....De MARCO'S/DRUGSTORE/NATCHEZ,MISS.........i filled it with colored water to show the embossing better.




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RE: MS Druggist - 12/22/2011 10:23:50 PM   
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RE: MS Druggist - 12/22/2011 11:07:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		Nice piece man, Druggists are pretty great in my book.

Although I do applaud your ambitious plan to get a bottle from every town in MS which had them produced, i'd suggest that you narrow it to a type of bottle, like sodas, or druggists in this case. I'd imagine that a lineup of a few hundred druggists from all over your state would be darn impressive, and depending on the size, not take up too much room. A motley hodgepodge of decos, acls, milks, meds, pharms, beers and sodas wouldn't come across as a coherent collection.


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RE: MS Druggist - 12/22/2011 11:15:09 PM   
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Nice piece man, Druggists are pretty great in my book.

Although I do applaud your ambitious plan to get a bottle from every town in MS which had them produced, i'd suggest that you narrow it to a type of bottle, like sodas, or druggists in this case. I'd imagine that a lineup of a few hundred druggists from all over your state would be darn impressive, and depending on the size, not take up too much room. A motley hodgepodge of decos, acls, milks, meds, pharms, beers and sodas wouldn't come across as a coherent collection.

Im taking it one step at a time,im lucky ive settled on just MS bottles anf fruit jars..........after all,im not a very coherent person........so why would i want a coherent collection?........maybe ill trim it down one of these days..........in the meantime,i think ill start photographing my bottles with the colored water in them,makes the embossing show much better.

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RE: MS Druggist - 12/22/2011 11:16:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		Oh,and im trying my best to stay away from acls and art-decos,but if its all that town produced i guess ill have to settle for what i can get.

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RE: MS Druggist - 12/22/2011 11:38:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		Local druggists are one of my favorite things to collect. They may not be as snazzy as colored sodas, but they are interesting pieces of local history that come in a good variety of shapes, sizes and designs.

A statewide collection of them will be fun for you to put together. Some towns will be very tough to find, but the challenge makes it more rewarding. Digging may be your best chance to find some of them. Check with any old-time diggers who you know, too. If it weren't for digging pits, I would not have or even know about most of my local druggist bottles.

I generally skip all of the later stuff like ACLs and all milks, but I admit to having a soft spot for deco embossed 20s-30s sodas.  ~Jim


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RE: MS Druggist - 12/23/2011 12:01:04 AM   
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Status: offline 		I dont think theres a bottle digger within 50 miles of here,collectors yes,diggers no.........i really dont care for deco sodas,i have a thing for milks though

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RE: MS Druggist - 12/23/2011 12:08:09 AM   
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Status: offline 		You're yet young, and I do understand where you are coming from, but trust me when I say that you will be much better off if you established some rigid personal ground-rules. It will save you money, and make you a wiser and better-informed collector.

I don't know if you are a hoarder, but you seem to possess the attributes of a person predisposed to hoarding. I admit that i'm a hoarder myself, and it is a bad thing when the sheer volume (and mass) of your stuff negatively impacts yourself and others. I dunno how my girlfriend puts up with it; most would run away screaming instantaneously.

My father always said "It is better to possess 1 excellent item than 10, or 100 mediocre items", and in terms of personal and familial sanity, long-term investment value, and decades-long personal enjoyment of the items, you should try to make yourself focus on a more coherent, concise, and likely more difficult (and thus more rewarding) goal. Then you will know precisely what you are working towards. I don't say this in judgement; I wish someone would have pounded the same words into my thick skull when I was younger. Then, perhaps, I wouldn't have the tendency to obtain or hold onto what I know objectively I don't really need or want. I tell myself that I will sell it at the next flea market, etc, but I could set up every day for a year and still have plenty of stuff left to get rid of. If hoarding is a sickness, then I'm terminal. Don't let it happen to you. 

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RE: MS Druggist - 12/23/2011 12:11:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		My mom says im a hoarder..........let me assure you i am not.........im just a collector with many interestes

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RE: MS Druggist - 12/23/2011 12:39:28 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well said Plum!  Guilty as charged.  Live and learn?  That's what fleas and shows are for.

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RE: MS Druggist - 12/23/2011 7:46:48 AM   
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Status: offline 		me too plum I got it bad.

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