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Today was a very unusual day in the milk dump. I hit some more late throwaways, it started off with one Bromo Caffeine. They went to a few more. After the day of digging was over those few Bromo Caffeines had increased into a pile of exactly 75 of them. There was a pocket in my milk dump loaded with these nice little BIM guys. 74 of the 75 were the traditional cobalt blue. One was not. The odd one is a nice teal green color. I was just wondering whats the story on these. Are they from the same company that made the Bromo Seltzers? I know the Bromo Seltzers are seen in odd colors but I did not know that the Caffeines were as well. Here is a picture of it.

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Here is a pic of it next to one of the normal cobalt blue ones.

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I LOVE it Henry..... http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:u19Krdp-eVQJ:www.bottlebooks.com/Wholesale%2520Druggists/Keasbey%2520%26%2520Mattison.html+%22bromo+caffine%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com
 

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Thanks for looking everyone. I'm starting to think the owner who used the dump worked for a drug store of somekind since there were so many of these Bromo Caffeine bottles there. Jim, thanks for the link. Very interesting info about the company. I always thought it was owned by the Emerson Drug Co who made the Bromo Seltzers.
 

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wow that dump just keeps on giving! 75 of those things wow! never seen a teal one pretty cool ! keep us posted you might be on to a older layer?
 

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ORIGINAL: waskey

Here is a pic of it next to one of the normal cobalt blue ones.

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Cool,...we usually find cornflower blue bromo caffienes, and not cobalt...nice color on that oddball.
Here's the "Seltzer" version of your pic. [;)]

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ORIGINAL: JOETHECROW


ORIGINAL: waskey

Here is a pic of it next to one of the normal cobalt blue ones.

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Cool,...we usually find cornflower blue bromo caffienes, and not cobalt...nice color on that oddball.
Here's the "Seltzer" version of your pic. [;)]

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hey joe your right, mine are cornflower also, guess i havent seen a cobalt either, but henry is in maryland!
 

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That reminds me of the Dr's dump I dug. Tons of Bromo's most nice and clean. But never a one like that Teal. Congrats on a fantastic bottle. The bromo caffine's sell for more than the reg bromo. Great bottle there.
 

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