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RE: evolution of Phillips' Milk of Magnesia? - 6/8/2006 10:14:50 AM   
mabel

 

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Status: offline 		These are my oldest Phillips bottles that still have labels.  The tall one is the older, but despite the label listing nine thousand conditions Milk of Magnesia will fix (headaches, crabbiness, etc) I cannot find a date. The bottle has no embossing anywhere.
The label on the 7 inch bottle has the 1906 date.  The reverse side has embossed shield "Phillips milk of magnesia  rec'd U.S. patent pat. office Aug. 21, 1906."  The bottom has "T" above "24".
I'd be interested to see other old Phillips Labels.




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RE: evolution of Phillips' Milk of Magnesia? - 6/8/2006 2:27:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		The 9000 cures for all ailments turned into a treatment for indigestion with the Food & Drug act of 1906.

Mabel you can have that bottle i posted with the PATENTED peened out if you want it. For free, just pay whatever postage is.

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RE: evolution of Phillips' Milk of Magnesia? - 6/8/2006 4:02:36 PM   
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Status: online 		Hey Mabel, Your large bottle dates between 1880, when Phillips was first allowed to use Milk of Magnesia on their labels and 1906 when the bottle embossing changed.

My wife and I have dug alot of those tall unembossed bottles and we never knew what they were until know. We dug them in a city dump that was also used by a hospital so maybe the bottles they used were unembossed to make them cheaper.Thanks.

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RE: evolution of Phillips' Milk of Magnesia? - 6/9/2006 10:14:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		Warren, I think you are right about the hospital use of Milk of Magnesia.  When I was an intern on call almost every patient had an order for MOM as needed, often in hopes of avoiding an unnecessary call from the nurse in the middle of the night, so I'm sure they used tons of it.
Yes, Guntherhess, I would like that bottle.  That's very kind of you.  What do I owe you for postage?
One last question.  I have 2 bottles I bought on ebay that came from New Zealand and both have metal flip top lids.  These are screw-top bottles, though these lids don't unscrew.  I've never seen these before.  Are they common outside the USA?  Did they come with the bottles originally or did someone get creative later on?  Thanks, mabel




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RE: evolution of Phillips' Milk of Magnesia? - 6/9/2006 12:00:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		My guess would be someone put them on later. The lids just don’t seem to match the bottle although the smaller one looks alright. What’s that white stuff under the edge of the lid on the big one?

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RE: evolution of Phillips' Milk of Magnesia? - 6/9/2006 4:34:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		Tom, yes, it looks like they put the smaller flip-top on the larger bottle and vice-versa.
I'm not sure about the white stuff, maybe glue.
Oh well, they did manage to entice me into buying.  I wonder where they got the flip-tops?  mabel

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RE: evolution of Phillips' Milk of Magnesia? - 6/9/2006 8:38:06 PM   
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Yes, Guntherhess, I would like that bottle.


Just send me your shipping address to my email.
You can find my email on my website...
http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/order.htm
Postage should only be a couple bucks...assuming you are in the US.

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RE: evolution of Phillips' Milk of Magnesia? - 5/10/2007 2:03:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		Mabel,

I believe this might be one you could be looking for. It's in mint condition, no cracks or chips. The seam does not go to the top, just up to the neck. I will show more pics.

Beebs




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RE: evolution of Phillips' Milk of Magnesia? - 5/10/2007 2:05:56 PM   
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RE: evolution of Phillips' Milk of Magnesia? - 5/10/2007 2:08:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		Not sure if it means anything, but there is a T on the bottom. However old it is, it's a nice bottle & in mint condition.
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RE: evolution of Phillips' Milk of Magnesia? - 5/11/2007 9:42:45 AM   
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ORIGINAL: GuntherHess

Phillips milk of magnesia was apparently made over quite a long period. Does anyone know what the earliest bottles looked like. The one I have pictured here seems to be the earliest one I have. It is very light blue with a fairly large tooled lip. It is embossed PHILLIPS' MILK OF (trade mark) MAGNESIA. Below magnesia there is a word that is peened out of the mold. I think it originally read REGISTERED but is peened out pretty well.

Anyone found any Phillips that seem older than this one?





Hey..

I dug one like this, ice blue and BIM yet not as old as Ye olde prospector's....it had a lip chip, so it got traded off..
The hole I got it from remains un-finished for digging...the whole thing 25'x20' is 4 ' deep with newer trash..on top of older stuff. I got the phillips from as deep as I could get with a small diggerer...I intend to go back with an alminium shovel and get to the bottom..the 76 year old owner recalls tossing trash in this hole as a small child...he says it was an old trash hole then...His home is pre-1850 and sits 120' from this hole..I would expect to find yet older phillips bottles in there..

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RE: evolution of Phillips' Milk of Magnesia? - 5/11/2007 7:55:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		I found a milk of magnesia not a very old one tho in a 50's dump and it still had the original cap on it and when i opened the cap it was so nasty there was just all this dried white crud on the inside

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RE: evolution of Phillips' Milk of Magnesia? - 5/11/2007 8:42:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		Beebs, Yes, that's an old one.  I have one like it.  But are we sure it is the same Phillips family?  No surprise that milk of magnesia proved more popular than fish emulsion.  Mabel

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RE: evolution of Phillips' Milk of Magnesia? - 5/14/2007 4:13:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		Just thought I'd throw this in the mix. I went through a couple hundred newspaper wrapped bottles before i found it. Knew it was up there. Not sure if it's related to the MOM's but what the heck. About 9 1/2" high, 1870's? I included a pic of the base to show a true key mold, just in case anyone was wondering what that was all about. Now back to the attic with her.
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RE: evolution of Phillips' Milk of Magnesia? - 5/15/2007 6:33:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		so any thoughts as to whether this bottle is part of the great phillips mom empire? just curious
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RE: evolution of Phillips' Milk of Magnesia? - 5/15/2007 7:12:31 PM   
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Status: online 		Charles H. Phillips Chemical Company was in Connecticut. There are listings for a Christopher Hallowell Phillips in New York.

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RE: evolution of Phillips' Milk of Magnesia? - 5/15/2007 7:27:54 PM   
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