"Berlin Series" Mystery continues. Gunther

[downeastdigger]

HI folks, this is for anyone, but I know Matt collects Hartshorn bottles. Got this one today out of a river in north Mass. I think it is flint glass, but it is ribbed like a poison, with roped corners (sort of ). Anyone seen one of these? I have had the Hartshorn bottle that says Berlin Series, and would really like to learn what it is referring to.

 

[downeastdigger]

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[downeastdigger]

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[downeastdigger]

sort of polished pontil, but not quite

 

[downeastdigger]

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[GuntherHess]

That is an interesting early Hartshorn bottle. Berlin refers to Berlin Mass. where hartshorn first started making his medicines. He made a series of numbered remedies for different ailments. I would guess that one is from the 1860s.

 

[beendiggin]

That's a cool bottle Bram.....was it cologne?

 

[earlyglass]

I just posted a couple of Hartshorn's "Berlin bottles"... one has a full label and open pontil. The other is a large Family Medicines bottle.

Here is the link...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=270569600571

Nice bottle Bram.

Mike

 

[GuntherHess]

I guess we know what series #39 is now[]