Beeman's BQR

[calamintyjane]

We are remodeling our house and found a bottle in a space above a door frame. It is clear glass and is 4 1/2 inches high. The label is wore a bit on one side but you can read "Beeman's BQR for Cold Discomforts" (the c in cold is worn away). I think it can be linked to Dr. Edward E. Beeman of chewing gum fame but am not sure. Has anyone else got a bottle like this one or seen one? Any help would be appreciated.

 

[jamus]

Here's a link to a question on the forum about a simillar bottle. It never got answered. https://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/m-21198/mpage-1/key-/tm.htm#21214

 

[jamus]

here's a way better link that might answer your question. http://www.trocadero.com/stores/stonegate/items/389971/item389971.html

 

[capsoda]

I asked my dad and he said his mom used to give him Beeman's and another called 666. He says they tasted like hell and almost hurt going down but they worked.[sm=lol.gif]

I wish everyone could have seen his face when I ask him about it and while he talked about it.[][:'(][&:]...[sm=lol.gif][sm=lol.gif][sm=lol.gif][sm=lol.gif][sm=lol.gif] I LMAO till it hurt!!!

 

[calamintyjane]

Thanks .... I found the same link for the sign on another search. I think the bottle is a good way for us to date the house. No one around my area knows how old my house is and the bottle was found in a place where it had to be put there. It couldn't have just fallen through a crack. So I think the guys that built it were leaving me a clue. I am guessing by the screw top it can be dated to around 1940-1950.. Am I wrong?

 

[bottlenutboy]

not a good way to go about it... the first thing one looks for when dating a bottle is numbers that may be a clue

what kind of markings are on the bottom?

 

[calamintyjane]

Sorry super new to this...

The bottom is textured with a large circular mark and the number 12 , an O with what looks like a sideways diamond shape through the center, another O and under those, a 2 with a dot next to it.

 

[bottlenutboy]

the mark you described is the glass mark for the owens-illinois glass Co. owens and illinois merged in 1929 so its later than that what number is to the right of the mark?

 

[calamintyjane]

Its a zero.

 

[bottlenutboy]

its only a 0? judging by the top bar which way do the bars on the I curve? up, straight, or down? down means 30s up means 40s and straight means 50s also during the 50s sometime they changed to just a I in a O