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My new veterinary embrocation bottle arrived while I was in Texas getting my youngest settled in for her 2nd year of college. I had not realize until the last few years that there was a sort of embrocation shape. Elliman's is a very common bottle, not only in England but here in the US as well. There are a few others that are the same shape and much harder to find, especially here in the States. I don't know if this was just a popular shape or if they were trying to ride the coat tails of a very successful Elliman's. If you see a bottle of this shape you may want to check the name...anything other than Elliman's may be worth trading off to a veterinary collector. By the way, only the Elliman's Royal Embrocation was for horses. The smaller Elliman's Embrocation was in a different shaped bottle and meant for humans....though it was probably the same stuff!
The picture is not too good. I have a terrible time trying to get a good bottle picture.

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Here is a close up:
Vanner & Prest Embrocation For Horses, 6"
Elliman's Royal Embrocation for Horses, 7 1/2"
Vanner & Prest Embrocation for Horses, 6"
more scarce large Elliman's, 9"
Harwood's Embrocation for Cattle and Horses, 7 1/2"

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KERSHAW'S EMBROCATION,7 1/2"
Cataline Embrocation, 7 1/2"
Elliman's Royal Embrocation, 7 1/2"
"Stud" Company Veterinary Medicine Manufacturers, 7 1/2"

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Here's the "humans'" embrocation, sometimes embossed Elliman's Universal Embrocation.
Melinda, I'm sure many humans used the Horse Embrocation, thinking it must be stronger ![;)]



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I am sure they did! I wonder if it was cheaper to buy the horse embrocation?
I would love to know what was in some of these liniments. They were probably pretty much the same.
They put out a great book: "Horses, Dogs, Birds, Cattle. Accident and Ailments First Aid" It is pretty common...they must have printed a lot of them.
They show the Royal and Universal embrocations in 4 different sizes and in wraps. I only have two sizes.

It is hard to tell from the picture if the horse embrocation was cheaper as there are no volume measurements shown.

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There are also some great pictures in the book. I am not sure if these are copies of posters they issued. If so I would love to get my hands on one or two.

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Since they advertise both I guess one was for the horse and one for the rider after a day of hunting. I know I would need it!

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really nice, new one to me..but of course no one has seen em all...
 

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I was not very clear in my first post...The Elliman's I have had since the 70's. My newest is the "Stud" Company. I have some other "Stud" Company bottles but none in the "embrocation" shape.
 

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Here's the "humans'" embrocation, sometimes embossed Elliman's Universal Embrocation.
Melinda, I'm sure many humans used the Horse Embrocation, thinking it must be stronger ![;)]



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I found this on the web in a chat about embrocations for cycling:
"My Grandmother used an Embrocation called 'Ellimans' BUT she used the one formulated for animals. Her saying was "if it's good enough for t' cows, it's good enough for me"! "
 

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