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blue medicine - 1/10/2012 4:00:33 PM    lil digger   Posts: 263 Joined: 12/7/2010 From: Palmerton pa Status: offline my dad dug this on sunday it is embossed keasbey & mattison philadelhpia....the bottom has a 4 on it...anyone know anything about it... is it rare? common ? Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: blue medicine - 1/10/2012 4:43:25 PM    portland med. man   Posts: 330 Joined: 2/25/2005 Status: offline they are not to common, they make a square one i have in the same color not sure what they had in the bottles, but i do know they had a huge part in insulating wraps that went on water pipes that were held together bye brass colored pipe clamps these wraps probably killed alot of people who installed these, since it contained a crap load of asbestos, almost every old building in the united states has this stuff in the basement not many residential homes had it though, the building i work in had 95% of this nasty stuff abated, but i found some under the old theatre i have connected to our building and on the wrap there was these daimond labels i peeled one off and on it, it said keasby and matisson... thats all i know.... (in reply to lil digger) Post #: 2

RE: blue medicine - 1/10/2012 4:52:26 PM    AntiqueMeds   Posts: 2034 Joined: 3/6/2009 From: Frederick, MD. Status: offline quote: keasbey & mattison I think it was a Phillips Milk of Magnesia type product. They are fairly common around here. Its funny they went from patent medicines to asbestos. Two great boons to mankind _____________________________ My web site - http://www.AntiqueMedicines.com/ Medicine BLOG : http://antiquemedicines.com/blog/ Email me : mknapp@antiquemedicines.com (in reply to portland med. man) Post #: 3

RE: blue medicine - 1/10/2012 4:55:29 PM    dogtx   Posts: 191 Joined: 4/9/2011 From: VA Status: offline There from TOC. Not rare, I find them here and there. there a nice color. (in reply to AntiqueMeds) Post #: 4

RE: blue medicine - 1/10/2012 6:12:38 PM    RIBottleguy Posts: 1003 Joined: 3/5/2008 From: South Kingstown, RI Status: offline I dug my first one two weeks ago, looks just like yours.  Common for a blue bottle but you can't go wrong with the color! (in reply to dogtx) Post #: 5

RE: blue medicine - 1/10/2012 7:07:43 PM    beendiggin Posts: 3005 Joined: 6/30/2005 Status: offline I've dug them here in Maine, I guess they had a great business. I researched the company once, they were on top for a while . _____________________________ Paul (in reply to RIBottleguy) Post #: 6

RE: blue medicine - 1/10/2012 10:34:17 PM    hunter2000   Posts: 308 Joined: 4/26/2010 From: southern NH Status: offline Here is a newer one I recently dug. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Den Den Den. All items I post are for sale dumpdigger69@yahoo.com (in reply to beendiggin) Post #: 7

RE: blue medicine - 1/10/2012 11:23:21 PM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 11907 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: online quote: ORIGINAL: lil digger my dad dug this on sunday it is embossed keasbey & mattison philadelhpia....the bottom has a 4 on it...anyone know anything about it... is it rare? common ? I grew up in Ambler pa there was a huge asbestos factory and a huge asbestos dump near my grand moms house.The factory used to be the former "Keasbey & Mattison" factory.   We used to find 100s of the little bromo size ones and the one you have there. The  Factory in Philly was later.      These square ones where a little harder to find back then.Belive it or not, I only have a few from my childhood,we used to shoot them with our BB guns when I was your age L'll digger What the hell was wrong with me. Attachment (1) < Message edited by RICKJJ59W -- 1/10/2012 11:24:41 PM > _____________________________ My web site. Lots of privy and dump dig pictures. Also dig story's I had published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector magazine and Western & Eastern Treasure's www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com (in reply to lil digger) Post #: 8

RE: blue medicine - 1/11/2012 7:27:53 PM    the snake   Posts: 4 Joined: 12/27/2011 Status: offline very cool meds (in reply to lil digger) Post #: 9

RE: blue medicine - 1/11/2012 7:41:12 PM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 11907 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: online quote: ORIGINAL: the snake very cool meds Hey Snake whats up there kid.I see there was a little tussle with RoadWarrior and the Badger,or weren't you there? _____________________________ My web site. Lots of privy and dump dig pictures. Also dig story's I had published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector magazine and Western & Eastern Treasure's www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com (in reply to the snake) Post #: 10

RE: blue medicine - 1/24/2012 7:45:36 PM    lil digger   Posts: 263 Joined: 12/7/2010 From: Palmerton pa Status: offline hey rick , no he was not there but i told him about it _____________________________ Lil digger (in reply to RICKJJ59W) Post #: 11

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