Colored Pontiled Utility W/Label

[earlyglasscollector]

...reading through my last post, and thought I should explain that the introduction of soda lime and similar advances to help clear glass generally allowed the use of silica once again, rather than powdered flint. Silica (sand) was obviously much cheaper than powdered flint.
Actually you go through glass history and it goes round in cycles, different materials being used, dropped and re-discovered and re-used in different ways throughout the centuries, so it gets difficult talking about evolutionary developments!!!
egc

 

[earlyglasscollector]

ORIGINAL: Steve/sewell

Jeff, I think certain levels of the upper crust of the populace demanded fine leaded glass ware and they could not be fooled by cheap imitations just like you and I can differentiate between Acme brand Cola and Coca Cola.I tend to beleive these early works in the colonies were in fact producing lead glass ware.I do agree with you there are absolute differences in the deffintions of leaded glass you raise.

that does make a lot of sense and is quite probable.
egc

 

[Steve/sewell]

Mark (earlglasscollector) you wont be a junior member here at the forum for long if this post keeps up.[]Great job posting here and your website is awesome.British things I love,The Lotus automobile an engineering wonder,The Beatles,Benny Hill,Monty Python,Winston Churchill,all of your accents and your old meds which brings me to ask you a question?Do you have any of the early pre 1820 Daffys bottles available for sale.If so could you Private Mesage me,I have always wanted one of those as I feel they are the best looking early med ever made.Thanks Steve.

 

[JOETHECROW]

While I don't have anything in my collection equal to the Braddee bottle, I do have a question that somewhat pertains to this thread, and while all the experts are nearby, I'd like an opinion from anybody out there. This little guy (gal?) I was fortunate enough to dig in the early eighties, as a late throw in a victorian dump....sorry no pic right now of the pontil, but it's open....American? English? Just some questions I've always wondered about. Thanks ahead to anybody that might know.

 

[JOETHECROW]

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[Steve/sewell]

What exactly does the embossing say Joe?

 

[JOETHECROW]

The Hon.ble (honorable) Lady Hill...quite unevenly and on two lines....


Also for scale and reference the bottle is about 3 inches tall.

 

[Steve/sewell]

It is a great looking bottle Joe.

 

[Road Dog]

It is originally a British Med. Despite the aqua it does look English don't it?

The Public are most seriously cautioned against
various Counterfeit Preparations of the Genuine PEC-
TORAL BALSAM of HONEY, invented by the late Sir JOHN
HILL, M.D., and now faithfully preprared from his MS. Re-
cipes, by his Relict and Executrix, the Hon. Lady HILL, at
her house in Curzon-street, Berkley-square, London.—More
than 36 years experience has confirmed the unequalled efficacy
and safety of this elegant Medicine in the immediate relief, and
gradual cure, of Coughs, Colds, Sore Throats, Hoarseness,
Difficulty of Breathing, Catarrhs, Asthma, and Consump-
tions; for it is the greatest preserver of the Lungs, and contains
all the healing, softening and soothing qualities of that salubri-
ous extract of flowers called Honey, and the essential parts of
the richest Balsams; it is restorative as Asses Milk, and never
disagrees with the stomach. A large tea-spoonful in a wine
glass of water, is a dose, converting the water into a most
pleasant balsamic liquor, to be taken morning and evening.
A common cold yields to the benign influence of this Medi-
cine in a few hours; and when resorted to before the lungs
are ulcerated, all danger of consumption is certainly prevented.
Such are the faint outlines of the merits of Sir John Hill’s Bal-
sam of Honey, a preparation of most exalted efficacy, the re-
sult of long researches into nature, by the Linnaeus of Britain;
a man who dedicated his life to Botany, and justly sought the
true means of health in the vegetable kingdom; but as the
severest human laws are unequal to the prevention of extreme
fraud by coining and forgery, so it is not to be admired that the
merits of this Medicine have induced base and avaricious men
to vend counterfeit preparations of it, preparations not merely
devoid of all efficacy, but also highly deleterious, whereby
many persons have lost their lives, and others been reduced to
the brink of the grave in a few days time.—Lady Hill desires
that all persons will take notice, that her Balsam of Honey is
only to be had at the original Patent Medicine Warehouse, No.
150, Oxford-street (opposite New Bond-street); E. Newbery,
corner of St. Paul’s; Tutt, Royal Exchange, London; and
Clarke, No. 269, Borough; in bottles, price 3s. 6d. each.—
The Genuine may be known by the Signature “H. Hill,†in
red ink on the label of each bottle.
Source: The Times, Friday 15 April 1796
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[JOETHECROW]

Thanks Steve and Rory....Gunth shared some of that info awhile back when Laur posted it over on his site,It's very a very interesting little med,....with a touch of inevitable lip damage....but still one of my favorite dug bottles. Here's a pic of the open pontil (which does look american to me.)