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coffin shaped pills!!! - 10/1/2008 10:25:36 PM   
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http://www.rtam.com/glassworks_catalog/cgi-bin/SHOWITEM.CGI
I don't collect poisons but I've never really seen a full one and to boot the pills are shaped like coffins?? Do you think this was because they thought maybe somebody that could'nt read the label, could'nt figure out why this bottle was so odd and differant than the rest of the bottles might actually stop and not take the pills because they were shaped like coffins?????
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RE: coffin shaped pills!!! - 10/1/2008 10:29:41 PM   
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Well, i just relized that dosn't take you to the exact lot but gets you to the auction. Lot #359 is the one I am refering too.

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RE: coffin shaped pills!!! - 10/1/2008 10:33:37 PM   
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Try this...
http://www.enter.net/~glassworks/84-jpg/359.jpg

They arent pills , they were designed to be disolved in water.
I think the point of the shape was so people didnt actually swallow them.

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RE: coffin shaped pills!!! - 10/1/2008 10:40:19 PM   
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Sold a cobalt one with label and contents a few years ago. No mistaking what the shape of the tablets could mean.

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RE: coffin shaped pills!!! - 10/2/2008 12:01:39 AM   
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That seems like alot for a clear one even with the pills.

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RE: coffin shaped pills!!! - 10/2/2008 10:38:25 AM   
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But if the bottle were cobalt, you couldn't see the shape of the pills. Lot 360 - I have the big one - I guess the little one is more rare, huh?! Says perfect, but looks like there's a crack in the lip, doesn't it?
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RE: coffin shaped pills!!! - 10/2/2008 3:12:02 PM   
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The coffin shape was used by several companies for those antiseptic tablets. Mercury bichloride (also called corrosive sublimate) is nasty stuff. If eaten, those things would literally eat your esophagus from the inside out .

Clear is actually a very scarce color for that bottle, as most of them were cobalt. With full labels and contents, that is a good poison bottle. ~Jim


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RE: coffin shaped pills!!! - 10/10/2008 8:10:03 AM   
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can someone boot this spammer?

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