Dr. Spivey's Asthma Cure in and with original packaging and ad booklet....

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historic-antiques

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Hi,

I'm new at this forum and wanted to share a bottle I found in an old, beautiful 1880 house in Chicago, on top of an ancient boiler down in the basement. Actually I found 2 of them, all with original packaging and ad booklet inside, somebody just left and forgot 137 years ago.

Thanks for any help you can give, especially regarding the preservation of the paper labels and the booklets, and packaging (both are in packaging, but one is easy to take out without damaging it). Any thoughts about how rare it might be? I've got more pictures if you need to see them!

Sincerely,

Paul
 

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andy volkerts

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nice label only cure bottles!! (doesn't appear to have any embossing-lettering in the glass itself) The best way to preserve the labels-packaging etc, is to keep the items all together in their boxes, put the boxes with all the wrappers signs and bottles into a big enough ziplok bag, then keep in a dry DARK place in a storage drawer or something like it. the dark will keep everything from fading
 

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P1010344.JPGHi Andy,

Thanks for your response and advice, which I shall follow! The bottles do have embossing on the back which I included here, and I think on the sides,(don't have side shots to show). If you'd like to see side shots, I'll get them for you.

Take care and thanks again!

Paul
 

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Wow...what a find! I would say quite rare with labels and probably pretty rare even without. James Rudolph Spivey was a druggist (maybe not a doctor as shown on the label) in Oxford in the 1890's. He attended Miami University from 1886-1888 and Purdue from 1889-1891. The Spivey Medicine Co. seems to have been fairly short-lived...1893 or thereabouts. There is a Dr. Amy Spivey in Oxford these days...I wonder if she is a relation? Nonetheless, a great find! A wild guess, but I imagine the bottles are worth $100+ each.
 

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Yes Paul, I would like to see if your bottles have the words asthma cure on the sides, as I own one which does, but no labels, so maybe you would consider selling one?
 

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so that's what a hole one looks like . I had dug the embossed part of this bottle up in Piqua Ohio many years ago .
 

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The wording on that cover is amazing. "POSITIVE ERADICANT OF THE DISEASE". Matt Knapp does not even have the company listed in his book unless I missed it somehow. I'm sure he would like to see pictures of what you have.
Jim S
 

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Thanks for the information! Yes, wonder if Dr. Spivey is a relation; she's lived in Oxford all her life, so probably she is related!
 

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I'll try sending him some info/pictures about the Spivey bottles I have. Yes, with such astounding claims, thank Teddy for the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1903!!....
 

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