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South Carolina Dispensary bottle - 5/12/2004 9:41:42 PM    saruyojo   Posts: 3 Joined: 5/12/2004 Status: offline This bottle was found in an old home in Newberry, SC. It has a cork; lots of bubbles in the glass; a Palmetto tree; and the words: "South Carolina Dispensary." Each side of the bottle has a ridged area which runs from the neck to the bottom of the bottle. Can anyone date this for me? Font changed to default - Admin Attachment (1) < Message edited by Admin -- 5/13/2004 10:38:30 AM > Post #: 1

RE: South Carolina Dispensary bottle - 5/13/2004 12:16:08 AM    Harry Pristis   Posts: 495 Joined: 7/24/2003 From: Northcentral Florida Status: offline Do a search of this forum for "South Carolina Dispensary". _____________________________ ______________________________________________ Visit The Demijohn Page at: http://members.aol.com/pristis/index.html (in reply to saruyojo) Post #: 2

RE: South Carolina Dispensary bottle - 5/13/2004 11:30:54 AM    maineahh62   Posts: 108 Joined: 3/13/2004 From: Maine Status: offline hello saruyojo, i took harry's advice and typed in dispensary in the above search and it produced this result, South Carolina Dispensary bottle i hope it will be of some help to you, if you have not already done so. _____________________________ Timothy McKinnon (in reply to saruyojo) Post #: 3

RE: South Carolina Dispensary bottle - 5/14/2004 9:46:42 AM    saruyojo   Posts: 3 Joined: 5/12/2004 Status: offline Thank you! I did look there, and found several bottles, but only one similar to this. However, the bottom of that bottle appeared rounded, while this one is more squared off and flat. I do believe it is pre-1900 because the line that I believe is the mold seam stops just before the neck of the bottle. Thanks again! Sarah (in reply to saruyojo) Post #: 4

RE: South Carolina Dispensary bottle - 5/14/2004 10:17:01 AM    Harry Pristis   Posts: 495 Joined: 7/24/2003 From: Northcentral Florida Status: offline Hello, Sarah . . . Your bottle is called a "union flask." This shape has been widely-used from the early 1800s. The South Carolina Dispensary used union flasks in half-pint, pint, and quart sizes. All SCD union flasks have the palmetto tree embossment. Neck seams are irrelevant for dating these bottles -- all SCD bottles, including union flasks, are hand-finished. IOW, the seam stops just below the lip on ALL these bottles. Here is what the book says: Early union flasks bear, on one edge of their ribbon [side-strap], crude mold seams that pass to the bottom of the bottle and terminate in a circle. Later union flasks lack this bottom circular termination of mold seams. All these SCD union flasks are very collectible, much less common than the Jo-Jo flasks. --------------Harry Pristis _____________________________ ______________________________________________ Visit The Demijohn Page at: http://members.aol.com/pristis/index.html (in reply to saruyojo) Post #: 5

RE: South Carolina Dispensary bottle - 5/19/2004 5:07:50 AM    Carolina_Bottle_Nut   Posts: 26 Joined: 4/26/2004 From: St. George, SC Status: offline Hello, Saruyojo I have been doing some research on my SCD bottle and found some links that were useful. Lots of good photo's. I'll post them below. Hope some of them help you. Are you from SC?..If so it's nice to meet a bottle collector from closer to home Have a great day!! Laura...AKA...C_B_N http://bottlemagazine.com/issue/articles.asp http://www.goldminers90.com/bottles/pages/bottles.htm http://kfritz.homestead.com/6594southcarolinadispensarybottl.html http://www.antiquebottles.com/scdispensary At the bottle magazine link you have to scroll down a good ways but it's a really good article. I will try and post more links as I find them. (in reply to saruyojo) Post #: 6

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