Few new bottles for my collection.

[texasdigger]

Tony I think the Blud-Life bottle is possibly made by the Blud-Wine company. It just makes sense to me, but I am sureI could be wrong!
Brad

 

[GuntherHess]

Bye bottle is interesting, they are normally marked 316 N. ILLINOIS ST. INDIANAPOLIS IND.

 

[appliedlips]

Congrats on adding some nice locals to your collection.That cure is a good one for sure.

 

[texasdigger]

I bought it outright, and I think I got a great deal on it. It is a tall bottle also 7". I know quite a few Texas diggers, and it is the first time any of them have seen this one. I am sure some of the bigger Texas collectors have seen it, but it is a rare bottle for sure. Mr. Hess you said the medicine usually is embossed for another town. That is really intersting to hear, and I am always amazed with your vast amount of bottle knowledge. Everytime I talk to you it shows me exactly how much I need to learn!
Brad
p.s. Does anyone have any info on the Mull's bottle? I have found another variant, but cannot find any info besides a listing on this particular one. Any value to it? Or is it common?

 

[madman]

hey brad, beautifull sodas and pharmacys, thanks for sharing those hutches and that dallas pharm are very nice mike

 

[idigjars]

Brad, Great additions for your collection! The cure is really cool and the Hutch with the tombstone type slugplate is neat too, is that a quart? Congrats on your acquisitions. Paul

 

[texasdigger]

Thanks for the comments I dig jars. No it is not a quart. It is smaller than normal actually. The reason I bought it is because it is the last McDaniel bottle that I did not have. That one completes the set. My next buys will be blob top Texas sodas. They do not come cheap, but I will have some soon. We just opened up a new dump today, and it is going to produce some good bottles. A few years back a buddy got to dig in it for a day, and he took out 4 Waxahachie Hutches, 3 Waxahachie drugstores, a Simmons Squaw Vine Wine, English Female Bitters and 6 blob top beers. Today we were just starting a hole. Only two keepers. A triangle cobalt poison and a blob top beer. We only dug in the bottle layer for about 20 minutes, and it looks like this will be great!
Brad

 

[Jim]

Nice bottles, Brad. The Oil Cure is interesting, I love meds/cures that are full of embossing like that. The tombstone hutch is great. I have the same situation, where there is one local tombstone hutch from my town, and it was also the hardest one for me to find. Other than mine, I have only ever heard of one other example (and have not actually seen it). ~Jim

 

[GuntherHess]

Does anyone have any info on the Mull's bottle?

I havent seen that particular version of it. It would probably be considered uncommon. Not worth a huge amount but still a nice find.
There were quite a few grape based medicines at the end of the 19th century.

Bill Linsey is the one to talk to went it comes to tonics...
http://www.historicbottles.com/toniclist.htm

 

[texasdigger]

Thanks again for your help Matt. I looked at the tonic list before on the site you listed. I will try to contact him. As far as the Dr. Bye goes I am very happy to have it. The manner that it is embossed, and the fact that it is from Dallas makes it very desirable to me. At the moment I am selling off alot of my current collection to concentrate on Texas stuff only. The only bottles I will keep other than that are pontiled meds. The odds of digging one around here are very low, but I can use my duplicate finds to purchase them. One day I will dig in a 1850's pit, but for now I will try to collect mostly what I can find.

Jim thanks for your comments. Tombstones are the only type of hutches I really like. Standard slugplates are a bit boring looking to me. There are quite a few from Texas, and as I see them I will be buying them.

Brad