Deepbluedigger help!

[kungfufighter]

My guess is that it is a misspelling of "Birm" which would be short for Birmingham.

 

[AntiqueMeds]

well they left the i out of Chymist too so seems they must have been grappling for space..hard to say without seeing it.

 

[|MDB|]

Google found two references to the term chymist/chymst.

"ROBERT BOYLE:
from The Sceptical Chymist (1661)
A Dialogue on the Nature of Combustion"

and

"Chymst, corner Queen and Albert streets, Brisbane. ...... Birmingham."

The first one spells the modern term Chemist as Chymist, apparently from old French "chymist/chymst", while the second instance referenced above obviously refers to Australia and merely includes the term Birmingham but does spell chemist as chymst.

 

[|MDB|]

This is the Australian citation above, from a pdf:

 

[surfaceone]

ORIGINAL: kungfufighter

My guess is that it is a misspelling of "Birm" which would be short for Birmingham.

Hey Jeff,

And you, of course, are correct:

re: "93 e. Payable at the House Of John Clarke, Bull Street, X....

This is one of the most beautiful halfpenny Tokens of the 18th century.
Clarke was a chemist, tea dealer, and vendor of indelible ink." page 15, From http://books.google.com/books?id=RWsCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=Clarke's+Indelible+ink,+Birmingham&source=bl&ots=y77vGlf9nS&sig=SaUTrrGllsh4ZLnz_nZYYvSgTC0&hl=en#v=onepage&q=Clarke's%20Indelible%20ink%2C%20Birmingham&f=false

Listed as "Clarke John and Son {and preparers of indelible ink) 35 Bull St." page 11 Birmingham Directory. From http://books.google.com/books?id=0ecNAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA11&lpg=RA1-PA11&dq=Clarke's+Indelible+ink,+Birmingham&source=bl&ots=EK-KAObIUc&sig=JrqS8dj5vA0Wnnwr_Tlcw-B1waA&hl=en#v=onepage&q=Clarke's%20Indelible%20ink%2C%20Birmingham&f=false

 

[deepbluedigger]

Sounds like a nice bottle, and a rare one. The Birmingham connection pointed out by Kungfufighter and Surfaceone seems to be right. Abbreviations of Birmingham were and still are quite common: B'ham; Birming'm; Birm; and so on.

Photos would be good!