Went out digging this past weekend and dug a pretty good pile of (mostly junk) bottles, but did find a few odds and ends of interest. The most interesting (though I didn't know it when I dug it) was a clear bottle embossed "Collier's/Tonic Aperient". I always hope when I dig bottles like this that they might be local and they almost never are. When I got home and started searching for information, the only hits were advertisements in the Galveston newspaper in the first few weeks of 1889 where it simply said "Smallpox-to protect against, take Collier's Tonic Aperient". No company name or location...nothing but those words. So I went to the 1889 business directory for Galveston and BINGO...Collier's Drug & Manufacturing Co., run by Lauderdale Collier. Looking back, he appears to have been in business from 1886-1889. Very excited to add this (as far as I am aware previously unknown) Galveston medicine bottle to the collection!
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Nice bit of research. Thanks for sharing this nice bottle.
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Way to go!! I always love discovering a local unknown bottle! doesn't happen much for me anymore, so congrats on a great medicine find........Andy
Thanks! Texas medicines are very uncommon and limited in number, so it's always exciting to find a new one for sure. Also dug a beautiful 1/4 ounce amber Galveston pharmacy bottle which capped off a great day! First 1/4 ounce pharmacy bottle I have ever dug that was embossed.
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Please, please show a pix of the 1/4 ounce, and its dimensions. That would be perfect in my collection of 1/2 or 1/4 ounce 50 state pharmacies. An amber 1/4 ounce would make it #1 in importance. Please let me know if it were ever to become available. I have only one clear 1/4 now.
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Thank you. That is WAY kuhl. Now the question, are you sure they had a retail Pharmacy / Drug Store as opposed to packaged medicine? That's a big difference to me, only because of which specialty group it goes with.
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Certainly good enough for me. I get a little suspicious when I see: "& CO."
He embossed his bottles with that from the beginning. He did have a few medicines that he sold as well as a cologne that were bottled in bottles that were embossed as such. In the early 1900's he incorporated, so his bottles from then on are embossed J.J. Schott & Co., Inc. Regardless, the context this bottle was dug in was mid 1890's...privy seemed to be roughly 1893-1896.
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