Oldtimer
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ORIGINAL: GuntherHess
Phillips milk of magnesia was apparently made over quite a long period. Does anyone know what the earliest bottles looked like. The one I have pictured here seems to be the earliest one I have. It is very light blue with a fairly large tooled lip. It is embossed PHILLIPS' MILK OF (trade mark) MAGNESIA. Below magnesia there is a word that is peened out of the mold. I think it originally read REGISTERED but is peened out pretty well.
Anyone found any Phillips that seem older than this one?
Hey..
I dug one like this, ice blue and BIM yet not as old as Ye olde prospector's....it had a lip chip, so it got traded off..
The hole I got it from remains un-finished for digging...the whole thing 25'x20' is 4 ' deep with newer trash..on top of older stuff. I got the phillips from as deep as I could get with a small diggerer...I intend to go back with an alminium shovel and get to the bottom..the 76 year old owner recalls tossing trash in this hole as a small child...he says it was an old trash hole then...His home is pre-1850 and sits 120' from this hole..I would expect to find yet older phillips bottles in there..
