4 from the store....and a ?

[CrewelaDeVil]

I went to a local antique place today and found these 4 goodies. 3 I know are R.I. bottles however 1 has a label from R.I. but the embossing says otherwise I think. The first is a med that is embossed DR. PARKERSON'S REMEDY. Not sure where this is from, anyone heard of this? I know of Dr. Parker's sons but not this one. The label says: GYPSY WINE BITTERS by Drs Townsend & Clark
Here is the embossed side

 

[CrewelaDeVil]

Any one know anything about this one? Here is the label:

 

[CrewelaDeVil]

Potter

 

[CrewelaDeVil]

Last one....cool little dose glass. Where is Watchemocket anyway?

 

[woody]

East Providence, RI.

 

[CrewelaDeVil]

Thanks....you'd think since I am from there I would know that [&:]

 

[treasurekidd]

Hi Crewela, nice RI bottles! Maybe the Gypsy Wine Bitters was related to Dr E F Townsend:

http://www.littlerhodybottleclub.org/research/townsend.html

Also, I have a Dr Parkerson's Remedy myself, I seem to remember someone telling me he was out of Albany, NY. It is a nice one!

 

[RIBottleguy]

Mason B. Wood also has a round bottle that comes in two sizes. Watchemoket was a part of East Providence. There is a cove there with the same name.
I could barely make out the name Geo. L. Claflin on the label of the Townsend bottle. He was a prolific pharmacist from Providence, I have one of his bottles. It looks like he might have been the proprietor for the medicine/bitters.

 

[CrewelaDeVil]

Either that or Claflin slapped a label on someone else's bottle. That's what I am trying to figure out. You never know unless there is research out there. I never heard of a Gypsy Wine Bitters from RI. I wish the bottle was embossed with that!

 

[Lordbud]

Man here lately I cannot believe what folks are finding in antique stores.
Labeled patent medicine, local embossed druggist and an embossed dose glass...Score!
Did you have to pay an arm and a leg?