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bromoMANIA! - 1/24/2011 10:59:46 AM   
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Status: offline 		As promised here is a recent pic of my bromo collection.  It's missing a very light cobalt, backwards Z bottle that I have to get back.  Like most diggers I collect every type of bottle but try to find niches of something without tons of collector interest to specifically collect.  I found the lowly bromos fit this very well.  Since I grew up with Baltimore as the closest big city and the Bromo-seltzer and Maryland Glass Corporation history is pretty fascinating this is also a local bottle for me.  I also dug the smaller aqua/clear bromo as a kid so that got me started.  The small oval bottle on the left is an EMERSON'S PHARMACY Baltimore Md bottle and predates the bromos and is the only one reported that I know of.  The aqua/clear four inch bromo I bought from our own Staunton Dan and is the only reported one of those that I know of.  I still have a ways to go to fill up this collection.  There is a tremendous amount of bromo related advertising out there but for now I'm limiting myself to the bottles.




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RE: bromoMANIA! - 1/24/2011 11:47:46 AM   
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RE: bromoMANIA! - 1/24/2011 11:47:57 AM   
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Status: offline 		Those look really nice lined up in the snow...(Good thing they're sturdy bottles)...Thanks for the picture..

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RE: bromoMANIA! - 1/24/2011 11:56:39 AM   
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Status: offline 		Ahh, so your one of the others with the reverse z 2.5" aqua. I knew there were more.
Nice collection there!


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RE: bromoMANIA! - 1/24/2011 12:02:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		Excellent run you have there! I've never dug any special bromos out here in Illinois but have excavated some of the huge cork-top ones. Those buyers must have had some terrible hangovers! 

I dunno why people hate on them, sure they are common but they are far more interesting and displayable than most other widespread meds. I certainly take them back with me. At one time I had over 200 of the things and sold them on eBay in lots of 20. Paid for my gas and then some.


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RE: bromoMANIA! - 1/24/2011 7:58:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		Nice collection Steve, I am yet to dig a BIM Bromo. Ive dug some of the cork top ABM ones and ive tossed around a million of the screw top ones, but still never a cork top BIM one. I guess I just havent dug many places old enough to have them.

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RE: bromoMANIA! - 1/24/2011 8:33:27 PM   
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RE: bromoMANIA! - 1/24/2011 10:18:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks guys, something made in the millions there's got to be some oddballs out there.  Interestingly, Emerson made two round bottle amber meds but you never see an amber bromo.  Its hard to tell in the pic but these four and five inch off color bromos are very whittled and crude.  I've never seen a cobalt one with such whittle.  I wonder if there is a connection between the cold mold ripple and the off color glass - like they used that to warm up the mold?  Though they made so many they probably didn't care what color it turned out.  One source says that the Cumberland Glass Co of Bridgeton NJ started making bromos but Emerson had Maryland Glass formed because Cumberland couldn't keep up with demand.  Maybe he also didn't like the cobalt color quality control.  I thought odd colors were more associated with end of the day stuff.  If anyone has a heavily opalized one or different color I'd be interested.




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RE: bromoMANIA! - 1/25/2011 7:13:50 AM   
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Status: offline 		For anyone that's interested Cecil Munsey has a great history writeup on his web site. HERE
Go to #137 on page 2


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RE: bromoMANIA! - 1/25/2011 7:24:45 AM   
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Status: offline 		Awesome collection you got there! Nice to see the different variants!

Thanks for sharing!


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RE: bromoMANIA! - 1/25/2011 7:49:35 AM   
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Beautiful colors!


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RE: bromoMANIA! - 1/25/2011 3:44:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's two I own. One is 5" tall, labeled and has no base embossing. Yard sale buy. The other is 2 1/2 " dark teal, and has the number 7 embossed on the base. I dug two teal ones last year, but one had a broken lip. This pic shows the color exactly.




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RE: bromoMANIA! - 1/25/2011 3:45:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		Close up of the label. Both bottles are bim.




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RE: bromoMANIA! - 1/25/2011 3:50:10 PM   
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RE: bromoMANIA! - 1/25/2011 3:59:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		Nice Paul, I'd like a teal green one like that in the four inch size.  Digging two teal ones is probably a rare occurance.  I'd also like to get one with a nice lable like that.  Wow, if it could do half of what it claims I'd take the stuff!

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RE: bromoMANIA! - 1/25/2011 4:22:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's my one and only in my collection it measures like around 6 1/4" tall with a hand tooled lip.




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RE: bromoMANIA! - 1/25/2011 4:28:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm not too attached to the labeled Bromo...PM me if you're interested.

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RE: bromoMANIA! - 1/25/2011 9:45:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		It doesn't hurt to have one for a little color.  I need to get some decent examples of the larger sizes.

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RE: bromoMANIA! - 1/26/2011 9:40:07 AM   
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As promised here is a recent pic of my bromo collection.  It's missing a very light cobalt, backwards Z bottle that I have to get back.  Like most diggers I collect every type of bottle but try to find niches of something without tons of collector interest to specifically collect.  I found the lowly bromos fit this very well.  Since I grew up with Baltimore as the closest big city and the Bromo-seltzer and Maryland Glass Corporation history is pretty fascinating this is also a local bottle for me.  I also dug the smaller aqua/clear bromo as a kid so that got me started.  The small oval bottle on the left is an EMERSON'S PHARMACY Baltimore Md bottle and predates the bromos and is the only one reported that I know of.  The aqua/clear four inch bromo I bought from our own Staunton Dan and is the only reported one of those that I know of.  I still have a ways to go to fill up this collection.  There is a tremendous amount of bromo related advertising out there but for now I'm limiting myself to the bottles.





Steve,


Nice lineup you have there.  One of my sons loves the Bromo's and I plan on picking him up a couple at the Baltimore Show. 


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RE: bromoMANIA! - 1/26/2011 3:58:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		Steve, I know you've seen this but I thought I'd throw a pic up again. It's really one of the few I got left that I care about and thought others may want to see what I was talking about. It's not citron or weird clear, the closup just came out that way. It's just aqua.



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