hydrogeologist
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I found this bottle on a job site in PA and it interested me enough to Google research it. Apparently Dr. J.S. Rose began practicing medicine inPhiladelphia in 1825 and produced his own proprietary medicines in the 1840s and 1850s. I learned that J.S. Rose bottles are rare and Eye Water wasn't on any list of known bottles I could find which leads me to believe that this is a really rare one and might be the only one known.
here are the specs: 3 1/8" tall, aqua in color, has an open pontil and an inward rolled lip. It's kind of crude but is in near perfect shape with no chips, scratches, or cracks but has a small bubble or two. No seams are visible. It's embossed 'Eye Water' down the front, 'Dr. J.S. Rose's' down the right side and 'Phil' down the left side with a very faint 'a' showing.
So has anybody here ever seen one of these or know somebody who has? I'm just trying to understand just how rare this bottle is and maybe get a ballpark estimate on its worth to a collector...
-Guy
here are the specs: 3 1/8" tall, aqua in color, has an open pontil and an inward rolled lip. It's kind of crude but is in near perfect shape with no chips, scratches, or cracks but has a small bubble or two. No seams are visible. It's embossed 'Eye Water' down the front, 'Dr. J.S. Rose's' down the right side and 'Phil' down the left side with a very faint 'a' showing.
So has anybody here ever seen one of these or know somebody who has? I'm just trying to understand just how rare this bottle is and maybe get a ballpark estimate on its worth to a collector...
-Guy