Doctor Pierce Extract of Smart-Weed, olive yellow

[GuntherHess]

ORIGINAL: cookie

Hi-I 've got this Pierce bottle with A&DHC in circle on base....

Nice, looks like it might be contemprary with or a few years after the one I have.
Let me know if you decide to get rid of it.
I'm looking for variants of these and early Dr Kennedy bottles.

 

[Stardust]

Ask and you shall receive Rick.
I'll write you a check tonight.
nice to see have a smile on tonight![]

Oh what a Beautiful Day!

 

[cookie]

Matt- the bottle needs professional cleaning...if you want it I'll send it to you-free-just let me know your address..John

 

[GuntherHess]

That's for the offer, I'll be glad to trade you something for it.
I'll send you a PM.

 

[Stardust]

Matt, It's the ripple effect from your acts of kindness......
Watch as you give you end up having more.
It happens everytime to me.
I'm not trying to make this about me,
but I try to do random acts of kindness everyday.

 

[GuntherHess]

I try to take a more balanced approach... for every person I am nice to, I make sure I thoroughly torture another poor soul. The kindness to you will likely be offset by my co-worker's pain and suffering[]

 

[Stardust]

you very funny matt [] []​

I love the view from where​

you set your bottles in your pics....​

I like to see things in multiples...​

all the flasks and all your other​

bottles, as they make such nice pics.​

Then I see part of a hand​

and wonder what the​

rest is like.​

what all the​

collecters​

here are like​

as i see bits and​

pieces.​

~Stardust~​

 

[GuntherHess]

I received a Pierce bottle from John (cookie) today who very kind to give it to me.
Comparing it to the Pierce bottle I have raises some questions.
They were both made in Pittsburgh probably around the late 1870s to early 1880s.
At first I thought they were made in the same mold but the side panels are slightly wider on the first one. What's interesting is the embossing seems to be the same on both bottles. The spacing and fonts are the same and if you look closely there is even a flaw in the embossing above the apostrophe that is identical on both bottles.
So how was embossing done on bottle molds? This seems to imply the same (damaged) embossing template was used by both Wightman and Cunningham.
Were these iron molds cast with the embossing or was the embossing added after the mold was cast?

here is a photo of first bottle...

 

[GuntherHess]

second bottle ...

 

[annie44]

I have a couple of Dr Pierce go-withs - a Memorandum and Account Book (48 pages) with great testimonials for his products, and a vial of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets in a box with original insert (and still full of the pills!)
Matt - shoot me a PM if you're interested and I'd be happy to pass these along to you.

Cindy