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brokenshovel

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Picked this up the other day really just because it had the pills in it.

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Pills have some humidity damage but you can barely make out the letters POISON on the pills themselves. Smells good too!

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I'm normally pretty wild and crazy but I think i'd be wearing gloves when fooling with those. Pretty nasty stuff.
... and those coffin poison pills are bad stuff too...
 

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I'm normally pretty wild and crazy but I think i'd be wearing gloves when fooling with those. Pretty nasty stuff.
... and those coffin poison pills are bad stuff too...

[sm=lol.gif][sm=lol.gif][sm=lol.gif] That is a good one...[:)]
 

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I would avoid sniffing those pills, I see from the label they contain a mercury derivative...thats nothing to mess with. I once bought a bottle with pure mercury chloride in it, it was a super fine powder that was flourescent orange. My brother just about freaked when he saw it, (geologist, mineralogist and mettalurgical background), told me just having it around even corked it can leach out into the air. I got rid of it...didn't want to take chances. Anyway, cool find. That was great marketing back then...coffin shaped pills.
 

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I recently found a Mercury Bichloride poison bottle it is still sealed and it has the coffin pills in it. I was looking up information on this bottle and found it in the rare hall of fame I was wondering if anyone would know what this bottle is worth and would be interested in this bottle? This bottle is about 4 and half inches tall amber colored.
 

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Just what in the world do you cure with poison except life?I mean they look like they were to be taken internally!Can someone enlighten me with the use for this substance?
 

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nice find, i recently found a bottle with pills in it and was reluctant to touch them, but im still alive lol, nice find ,be carefull with those, and lobey hilarious.................
 

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