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a question - 7/9/2008 7:30:50 PM    Dansalata   Posts: 283 Joined: 10/18/2005 Status: offline found this local paper label pharmacy bottle from here in san jose from  the japan town section, i dont believe this pharmacy exists anymore but can someone estimate the age by the bottle  its about 3 3/4 inches high with a plastic cap, im thinkin 40s bottom has a triangle and some letters but my eyesight aint as good as it used to be, thanks for any info!!! Attachment (1) _____________________________ DANSALATA Post #: 1

RE: a question - 7/9/2008 7:32:31 PM    Dansalata   Posts: 283 Joined: 10/18/2005 Status: offline close up, on the back a lot of japanese writing.oh by the way its ringworm medicine from the fuji pharmacy!!! Attachment (1) _____________________________ DANSALATA (in reply to Dansalata) Post #: 2

RE: a question - 7/9/2008 7:39:16 PM    cowseatmaize Posts: 2135 Joined: 12/2/2004 From: Metro West, MA Status: offline The top looks like Bakelite so 20's or 30's is my guess. _____________________________ My 10¢ worth (inflation) Eric If you love what your doing it might be illegal, so watch your back. (in reply to Dansalata) Post #: 3

RE: a question - 7/9/2008 7:49:39 PM    Dansalata   Posts: 283 Joined: 10/18/2005 Status: offline yep i think youre right, thanks and thats a little older than i thought its cool to have something of local history _____________________________ DANSALATA (in reply to cowseatmaize) Post #: 4

RE: a question - 7/9/2008 7:52:50 PM    lobeycat Posts: 3593 Joined: 9/8/2003 From: RED SOX Nation Status: offline I say your guess was closer Dan. mid 40's 50's could even be early 60's with that cap. _____________________________ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc86_Weoye0 ya never come back (in reply to Dansalata) Post #: 5

RE: a question - 7/10/2008 6:25:33 PM    Jim Posts: 2293 Joined: 7/5/2005 From: Lewistown, PA Status: offline Hi Dan, I think you and Lobey are right on. The few newer pharmacy bottles in my local collection that are similar to that one are 40s-50s. One actually has a 1949 date on the prescription label. Machine-made cork-tops were still popular with druggists around here in the middle 30s. The metal screw caps started to take over in the 30s, then came the black plastic ones in the 40s. ~Jim _____________________________ Preserving our buried history, one pit at a time. http://www.freewebs.com/lewistownbottles/index.htm (in reply to lobeycat) Post #: 6

RE: a question - 7/11/2008 2:36:45 AM    Dansalata   Posts: 283 Joined: 10/18/2005 Status: offline thanks everybody!!! _____________________________ DANSALATA (in reply to Jim) Post #: 7

RE: a question - 7/12/2008 8:28:58 AM    cowseatmaize Posts: 2135 Joined: 12/2/2004 From: Metro West, MA Status: offline Try the pin test. Heat it up to about red hot and press into the cap. If it melts it's plastic, if not it's bakelite. _____________________________ My 10¢ worth (inflation) Eric If you love what your doing it might be illegal, so watch your back. (in reply to Dansalata) Post #: 8

RE: a question - 7/12/2008 2:10:47 PM    Dansalata   Posts: 283 Joined: 10/18/2005 Status: offline NO MELT, SO BAKELITE DOESNT MELT OR HOTTER TEMP??? _____________________________ DANSALATA (in reply to cowseatmaize) Post #: 9

RE: a question - 7/12/2008 4:18:18 PM    beendiggin Posts: 601 Joined: 6/30/2005 Status: offline Run the cap under hot tap water until it's heated well, then dry off. Rub it with your thumb to create friction then smell it.  Bakelite has a very distinct and slightly pungent smell.  My sister in law collects Bakelite jewelry and taught me this.  _____________________________ (in reply to Dansalata) Post #: 10

RE: a question - 7/14/2008 12:47:46 PM    logueb   Posts: 1382 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline I'd probably go with the 40 to 50's.  I had the misfortune of having a ringworm in one of my feet as a child.  The medicine was in an amber bottle with a lever lid that sprayed out a chemical that froze on contact with the skin. Very painful application, but necessary to kill that little bugger that traveled under the skin at night and itched like crazy.  But back in the day , all the kids were barefooted all summer long and only wore shoes to church or school.  So getting ringworms in your feet was part of childhood.  Another home remedy was green walnuts rubbed on the feet. (this turned your feet dark green and didn't wash off.).  _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to beendiggin) Post #: 11

RE: a question - 7/14/2008 2:41:21 PM    Dansalata   Posts: 283 Joined: 10/18/2005 Status: offline SMELLS LIKE THOSE OLD TUBE RADIOS WHEN THE TUBES GET HOT, IM VOTIN BAKELITE ,THANKS ALL!!! _____________________________ DANSALATA (in reply to logueb) Post #: 12

RE: a question - 7/14/2008 3:15:41 PM    capsoda Posts: 7703 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline When ya got ring worm down here in the boonies your mother would drag you out to the fig tree, tear a leaf in half and rub the milk from it on the ring worm and tell ya to stay the hell away from them nasty cats. This cure works over night. I'd say 40s and 50s. _____________________________ 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 Dansalata) Post #: 13

RE: a question - 7/15/2008 6:47:06 AM    glass man Posts: 1278 Joined: 1/30/2008 From: GEORGIA Status: offline 1961-OOPS THIS AIN'T THE NUMBER GAME! NEVER MIND. WHEN I was a kid our extended family[cousins,mothers,so and so forth,but FATHERS COULDN'T BE SEEN ON THIS FAMILY AFFAIR] Would all go blackberry picking.LORD I HATED IT,HOT SUMMER NO SHADE AND SEEMED I ALWAYS HAD A HEAD COLD ON BLACKBERRY DAY! Anyway I will take a ring worm any day OVER CHIGGERS,OH HOW THEY LOVED YOUR PRIVATE PARTS! SCRATCH,SCRATCH ,SCRATCH,AND YOU HAD TO GET AWAY FROM OTHERS TO DO A PROPER SCRATCHING JOB ,BECAUSE OF THE LOCATION OF THE CHIGGERS![THEY LIKED IT UNDER THE ARM PITS TOO, BUT THAT WAS NO BIG DEAL.FINALLY I DECIDED TO KILL THEM OR ME.I WAS GOOD AND RAW,BUT THEY STILL TORMENTED ME! I FIXED THEM, I RUBED A LOT OF BEN GAY ON THEM,THAT SHOWED THEM.OF COURSE I SCEAMED LIKE A LITTLE GIRL FOR A WHILE,COULDN'T BLOW ON IT MYSELF AND COULD'T ASK MOM TO DO IT EITHER!HOT FUN IN THE SUMMER TIME!I WON'T GO CLOSE TO A BLACK BERRY BUSH! < Message edited by glass man -- 7/15/2008 7:01:18 AM > _____________________________ LOVE is in the water LOVE is in the air Show me where to go Tell me will love be there Teach me how to speak Teach me how to share Teach me where to go WILL LOVE BE THERE? OH,HEAVEN LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE DOWN! "COLLECTIVE SOUL" (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 14

I HAVE TO SAY - 7/15/2008 8:28:01 AM    Dansalata   Posts: 283 Joined: 10/18/2005 Status: offline I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD HAVE GOTTEN SO MANY RESPONSES AND COMMENTS ON A CLEAR GLASS NOT VERY OLD NOT PRETTY NO EMBOSSING PLASTIC CAP THREADED PIECE OF --- BOTTLE, SO THANK ALL OF YOU AND I MUST SAY ... THIS IS A PRETTY COOL FORUM  GOD BLESS... _____________________________ DANSALATA (in reply to glass man) Post #: 15

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