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Few new bottles for my collection. - 2/3/2008 3:56:44 PM    texasdigger Posts: 262 Joined: 1/6/2006 From: Roanoke Texas Status: offline First up is a Mulls' Grape Tonic.  It's color looks amber in the photo, but it is actually a very red amber color.  A new digging friend of mine traded me this one for a bottle probe that I built. Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: Few new bottles for my collection. - 2/3/2008 3:57:59 PM    texasdigger Posts: 262 Joined: 1/6/2006 From: Roanoke Texas Status: offline Next is a "Circle A brand 10 oz. Waco". Attachment (1) (in reply to texasdigger) Post #: 2

RE: Few new bottles for my collection. - 2/3/2008 3:59:44 PM    texasdigger Posts: 262 Joined: 1/6/2006 From: Roanoke Texas Status: offline Next up is a "Blud-Life The Great Anti-Toxic The King of Tonics".  I know this one is not rare, but I like the embossing a lot. Attachment (1) (in reply to texasdigger) Post #: 3

RE: Few new bottles for my collection. - 2/3/2008 4:01:13 PM    texasdigger Posts: 262 Joined: 1/6/2006 From: Roanoke Texas Status: offline Here is a drugstore bottle from very close to my hometown.  J. A. Spinks Druggist Grapevine, Texas" Attachment (1) (in reply to texasdigger) Post #: 4

RE: Few new bottles for my collection. - 2/3/2008 4:02:20 PM    texasdigger Posts: 262 Joined: 1/6/2006 From: Roanoke Texas Status: offline Here is a "McDaniel Bros. Fort Worth" hutch. Attachment (1) (in reply to texasdigger) Post #: 5

RE: Few new bottles for my collection. - 2/3/2008 4:03:38 PM    texasdigger Posts: 262 Joined: 1/6/2006 From: Roanoke Texas Status: offline "Greenville Bottling & Mfg. Greenville Texas" Attachment (1) (in reply to texasdigger) Post #: 6

RE: Few new bottles for my collection. - 2/3/2008 4:04:15 PM    Tony14 Posts: 2477 Joined: 2/15/2005 From: Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Status: online quote: Next up is a "Blud-Life The Great Anti-Toxic The King of Tonics". I know this one is not rare, but I like the embossing a lot. I dug one of those last summer but couldnt find any info on it... Nice ones! Like that druggist _____________________________ Looking for any Fond du Lac bottle. Also looking for any embossed wisconsin medicines. And any Carters cone inks (in reply to texasdigger) Post #: 7

RE: Few new bottles for my collection. - 2/3/2008 4:05:11 PM    texasdigger Posts: 262 Joined: 1/6/2006 From: Roanoke Texas Status: offline "Reeves Manufactoring Co. Greenville Texas"  Mold blown crown top. Attachment (1) (in reply to texasdigger) Post #: 8

RE: Few new bottles for my collection. - 2/3/2008 4:07:46 PM    texasdigger Posts: 262 Joined: 1/6/2006 From: Roanoke Texas Status: offline And last but by no means least "The Dr. D. M. Bye Combination Oil Cure Co. Dallas Texas The Origionator (Registered)".  This one is by far my favorite of the group.  Thanks a bunch for looking guys, and I appreciate your comments. Brad Attachment (1) (in reply to texasdigger) Post #: 9

RE: Few new bottles for my collection. - 2/3/2008 4:08:23 PM    texasdigger Posts: 262 Joined: 1/6/2006 From: Roanoke Texas Status: offline One more of the embossing. Attachment (1) (in reply to texasdigger) Post #: 10

RE: Few new bottles for my collection. - 2/3/2008 4:10:37 PM    texasdigger Posts: 262 Joined: 1/6/2006 From: Roanoke Texas Status: offline Tony I think the Blud-Life bottle is possibly made by the Blud-Wine company.  It just makes sense to me, but I am sureI could be wrong! Brad < Message edited by texasdigger -- 2/3/2008 4:11:51 PM > (in reply to texasdigger) Post #: 11

RE: Few new bottles for my collection. - 2/3/2008 5:04:19 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 5159 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline Bye bottle is interesting, they are normally marked 316 N. ILLINOIS ST. INDIANAPOLIS IND. _____________________________ Looking for Frederick Maryland and Dr Fahrney Bottles 2008 Medicine Bottle Price Guide on CDROM http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/BottleBook2008.htm email http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/email.jpg (in reply to texasdigger) Post #: 12

RE: Few new bottles for my collection. - 2/3/2008 5:08:19 PM    appliedlips Posts: 1705 Joined: 1/30/2005 Status: offline   Congrats on adding some nice locals to your collection.That cure is a good one for sure. _____________________________ I WOULD LIKE TO BUY OR TRADE FOR YOUR COLORED,AND OR EMBOSSED CATHEDRAL PEPPERSAUCE BOTTLES.I AM ALSO LOOKING FOR EMBOSSED MIDWESTERN ALES IN ANY COLOR. (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 13

RE: Few new bottles for my collection. - 2/3/2008 5:14:08 PM    texasdigger Posts: 262 Joined: 1/6/2006 From: Roanoke Texas Status: offline I bought it outright, and I think I got a great deal on it.  It is a tall bottle also 7".  I know quite a few Texas diggers, and it is the first time any of them have seen this one.  I am sure some of the bigger Texas collectors have seen it, but it is a rare bottle for sure.  Mr. Hess you said the medicine usually is embossed for another town.  That is really intersting to hear, and I am always amazed with your vast amount of bottle knowledge.  Everytime I talk to you it shows me exactly how much I need to learn! Brad p.s. Does anyone have any info on the Mull's bottle?  I have found another variant, but cannot find any info besides a listing on this particular one.  Any value to it?  Or is it common? (in reply to appliedlips) Post #: 14

RE: Few new bottles for my collection. - 2/3/2008 7:39:20 PM    madman   Posts: 4860 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline hey brad, beautifull sodas and pharmacys, thanks for sharing  those hutches and that dallas pharm  are very nice mike (in reply to texasdigger) Post #: 15

RE: Few new bottles for my collection. - 2/4/2008 7:41:21 AM    idigjars Posts: 1340 Joined: 12/24/2004 From: Michigan Status: offline Brad, Great additions for your collection!   The cure is really cool and the Hutch with the tombstone type slugplate is neat too, is that a quart?  Congrats on your acquisitions.             Paul (in reply to madman) Post #: 16

RE: Few new bottles for my collection. - 2/4/2008 9:20:28 PM    texasdigger Posts: 262 Joined: 1/6/2006 From: Roanoke Texas Status: offline Thanks for the comments I dig jars.  No it is not a quart.  It is smaller than normal actually.  The reason I bought it is because it is the last McDaniel bottle that I did not have.  That one completes the set.  My next buys will be blob top Texas sodas.  They do not come cheap, but I will have some soon.  We just opened up a new dump today, and it is going to produce some good bottles.  A few years back a buddy got to dig in it for a day, and he took out 4 Waxahachie Hutches, 3 Waxahachie drugstores, a Simmons Squaw Vine Wine, English Female Bitters and 6 blob top beers.  Today we were just starting a hole.  Only two keepers.  A triangle cobalt poison and a blob top beer.  We only dug in the bottle layer for about 20 minutes, and it looks like this will be great! Brad (in reply to idigjars) Post #: 17

RE: Few new bottles for my collection. - 2/5/2008 4:01:46 PM    Jim Posts: 2429 Joined: 7/5/2005 From: Lewistown, PA Status: offline Nice bottles, Brad. The Oil Cure is interesting, I love meds/cures that are full of embossing like that. The tombstone hutch is great. I have the same situation, where there is one local tombstone hutch from my town, and it was also the hardest one for me to find. Other than mine, I have only ever heard of one other example (and have not actually seen it). ~Jim  _____________________________ Preserving our buried history, one pit at a time. http://www.freewebs.com/lewistownbottles/index.htm (in reply to texasdigger) Post #: 18

RE: Few new bottles for my collection. - 2/5/2008 4:17:12 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 5159 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline quote: Does anyone have any info on the Mull's bottle? I havent seen that particular version of it. It would probably be considered uncommon. Not worth a huge amount but still a nice find. There were quite a few grape based medicines at the end of the 19th century. Bill Linsey is the one to talk to went it comes to tonics... http://www.historicbottles.com/toniclist.htm < Message edited by GuntherHess -- 2/5/2008 4:20:06 PM > _____________________________ Looking for Frederick Maryland and Dr Fahrney Bottles 2008 Medicine Bottle Price Guide on CDROM http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/BottleBook2008.htm email http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/email.jpg (in reply to texasdigger) Post #: 19

RE: Few new bottles for my collection. - 2/5/2008 6:42:17 PM    texasdigger Posts: 262 Joined: 1/6/2006 From: Roanoke Texas Status: offline Thanks again for your help Matt.  I looked at the tonic list before on the site you listed.  I will try to contact him.  As far as the Dr. Bye goes I am very happy to have it.  The manner that it is embossed, and the fact that it is from Dallas makes it very desirable to me.  At the moment I am selling off alot of my current collection to concentrate on Texas stuff only.  The only bottles I will keep other than that are pontiled meds.  The odds of digging one around here are very low, but I can use my duplicate finds to purchase them.  One day I will dig in a 1850's pit, but for now I will try to collect mostly what I can find.  Jim thanks for your comments.  Tombstones are the only type of hutches I really like.  Standard slugplates are a bit boring looking to me.  There are quite a few from Texas, and as I see them I will be buying them. Brad < Message edited by texasdigger -- 2/5/2008 6:43:28 PM > (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 20

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