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    Can I join you in Massachusetts for just one day??

    Hi - I'm going back home to Massachusetts on vacation from 15-29 September. Staying in Worcester, but will travel. It would be a highlight of my vacation if I could join you for a bottle dig. I could scrounge up some digging tools from my father-in-law's garage. I haven't had an opportunity to...
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    New blog about quackery - mainly 19th century

    FYI - I started a blog a few weeks ago about quackery; it will be mainly about the 19th and early 20th century stuff, but sometimes I will bring up something from today (check out my AQUA awards). Here's the address: www.quackcogitations.blogspot.com Please check it out and let me know...
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    Have you dug this one in your state?

    I would like your help in a little bottle survey. [8|] I am doing research for a book I'm writing about the medicines of Lynn, Mass., and trying to find out how broadly one particular medicine got distributed across the U.S. and Canada. The medicine is Mrs. Dinsmore's Cough and Croup Balsam...
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    Bottles in Sweden, Finland, and Russia?

    RE: Report on bottles in Sweden and Finland! Thanks so much for the info! Help from people like you makes this bottle forum so terrific! Thank you, thank you!
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    Bottles in Sweden, Finland, and Russia?

    Now that you mention it, no, I didn' t see any codds or patent sodas in either country. LOTS of wines and liquors, though. I guess it is a heat source for those long winters ... Not being able to post the pictures is making me crazy (crazier), but I won' t give up.
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    Bottles in Sweden, Finland, and Russia?

    Report on bottles in Sweden and Finland! I had a great time in Sweden and Finland and was very pleasantly surprised to find neat old bottles in their antique shops! I bought a full-label medicine from Orebro, Sweden called " Salubrin," a beautiful blue-green soda or beer with stopper from...
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    Southeastern Massachusetts talk and display

    If you' re in the area of Dartmouth, Massachusetts on October 16th, stop by the Southworth Library on Dartmouth Street at 7:00 pm. I have been asked to give a slideshow talk on patent medicine and illness in the 1800s. I will also have a fairly large display of my medical collection for viewing...
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    Back with a Pontilled Puzzler

    Hello everyone! It' s good to be back after a few months of family trips and activities. It' s great to come back to our forum and see it thriving! A special thanks to all those who have been responding to postings with opinions and knowledge; you' re terrific! To relaunch my own...
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    Dr. Abbott' s Blood Purifying Sarsaparilla

    One of my prized possessions is this bottle. Without the label it' s just another plain aqua medicine, but the label brings the whole story home. I' m not sure if this sarsaparilla is even listed in any books (if anyone has seen it listed, I' d love to know). The small type tells the reader all...
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    Bottles in Sweden, Finland, and Russia?

    I will be going on a vacation this summer to Sweden, Finland, and possibly the St. Petersburg area of Russia. Does anyone know if any antique shops carrying bottles in these countries or museums with a nice collection? I know southern Sweden has a big glass-making industry, so we might get to...
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    Galvanic Pendant - Front Side

    FINALLY - IT' S IDENTIFIED!!! With the help of a great fellow quack medicine collector, I have learned about this item. So I thought some of you would like to know, too. There is a great full-page ad in the October 30, 1880 issue of Harper' s Weekly for this pice. It has an illustration of the...
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    Mrs. Dinsmore' s, Mrs. Soule' s, Thurston' s ...

    Hunter - Thanks so much. Yep, they' re out there! Lynn was certainly not the biggest center of medicine makers in New England; in fact, there were several much bigger (Lowell, Boston, and Providence come to mind). But I have been able to locate over 60 medicines made in Lynn so far. Swampscott...
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    Genuine Chinese Green Drops

    Is there really and truly no one that knows anything about this Green Drops bottle? Has anyone even seen one before? I figured it must show up in mid-western U.S. bottle shows from time to time! HELP! [:(]
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    Mrs. Dinsmore' s, Mrs. Soule' s, Thurston' s ...

    I am a collector and writing a book about medicines made in Lynn, Massachusetts. There are many, but if you have any trade cards or other advertising for any of these products in particular, I would love to get an emailed image of what you have, even if it is not for sale! The information or...
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    Genuine Chinese Green Drops

    Hi everyone - Here' s my own mystery bottle. Although I have never seen another one before, it may be very common for all I know. In any case, I have loved it since the day I found it in northern Massachusetts, as I walked along a large expanse of fresh dug up bottle dump that was being exposed...
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