Medicine bottle & Cobalt hair dye

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The medicine bottle stands 8 3/4". It says The W.M. Griffin Company Fort Wayne Indiana USA It also has arrows and says Trial Mark. I have not been able to locate any information on this bottle at all. The hair dye is 4 1/4". The label is missing where it would say the name. Although, it says W T Co USA on the bottom. Any help with either of these bottle would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance! :D

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Both of these appear pre-1900. I was thinking the top one was ABM but on second glance, I've changed my mind.

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Hi!! :) Thank you! I can't find anything on either on of these bottles! (so the date estimate is helpful) I don't use photobucket, I just send the pictures to my email from my phone, and save on my desktop. Then, I add to these posts as an attachment!
 

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Oh my gosh, that's the bottle!! Thanks, Leon!! That gives me the date, which is awesome. Now, I just need to find out what to price it at? Any suggestions? It appears because I can't find it on worthpoint (which shows me bottles sold online and the prices), that it isn't the most common bottle?
 

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I have no idea of price. if put on ebay with low opening bid & no reserve they will sell for whatever someone thinks it is worth or willing to pay. How do you plan on selling them? LEON.
 

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Leon, I am going to be having a sale at my house in the next few weeks. I live in Erie. Pa,but I will be advertising the sale tri-state. (Ohio and New York..Erie is the center point of Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Buffalo, so I will be advertising there as well!) I have about 500 bottles. I have priced about 2/3 of them, and I am reaching out on this forum for help with the rest of them. :)
 

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I will! :) I have 5 people helping me at the sale! I will have my better bottles in display cases, so I can keep an eye on them better! Whatever is left, will be going up on ebay!!
 
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See. Your hair dye has the pure food and drug act language that I talked about in another of your posts. While I'd put the bottle at late 1900s, the label and contents are obviously at or after 1906. Great bottle though. nice presence.

The medicine bottle would probably have the most value to a Ft. Wayne area collector. Those pharmacy type of bottles tend to have the most collector interest locally. So the Ft. Wayne bottle might bring you more $ on ebay.

You have some really neat and varied stuff posted. Fun...

Jim G
 

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