This is an old Henry & Brown stoneware bottle I cannot locate any information on. Does anyone here have familiarity with the company in question? Any feedback would be appreciated.
In 2010 an inventor in the US applied for a patent on a poison for killing insects, with no "prior art" regarding the two components: an attractant (sugar) and a repellant (poison). However, chocolate-covered insecticide powder was already on the market some two hundred years ago.
The Vicat...
This bottle was willed to me from the collection of the late historian Lou Collins. It does not have the Bininger name and I wondered if it was an 1876 forgery, an 1876 World's Fair in Philadelphia short-run, an 1876 U. S. centennary piece, or whether it is in fact a genuine item simply...
While I possess bottles of most druggists who had shops in Halifax, Nova Scotia these past 150 years, this bottle is not common and difficult to obtain information on since it is merely a locally labeled bottle. The letters stand for Aloin, Extract of Belladonna leaves, Strychnine, and Cas. Sag...
Does anyone have any information regarding the following: a flask made by "W. Frank and Sons, Pitt." The flask bears the word UNION, a war standard (i.e. tassled) US flag bearing (apparently) 13 stars with a cannon in the foreground, and on the other side are 13 stars spangled across the top...
Does anyone know the rarity or value of a blob top stubby labeled
"H. Zubiller and Son, 190 Stanton St, New York" on the front, and a large star with a "Z" within the star on the rear?