Grip medicine w/box label and stamp

[zanes_antiques]

[]You're thinking of "Trip" Cap.[]

 

[epgorge]

Hey Joel, Shouldn't you let the younger diggers know what the grip is???

It's what happens if you get some bad mushrooms.

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You guys crack me up.
Joel

 

[capsoda]

Yep, High speed trip with the grip to the pit to take a screaming sh........Ah........Um........well you know the rest!!!!! [sm=lol.gif][sm=lol.gif][sm=lol.gif]

 

[urban archeologist]

i know that the grip is a cold in portuguese

new to this , neil

 

[epgorge]

Hey Neil, Welcome! The grip is old American verbiage for anything similar to a cold. The old timers didn't know what they had contracted so they called it the Grip. I suppose it comes from the expression, "somethings got a grip on me". So grip in Pordageeze means cold, literally?
Ep

 

[margratton]

ORIGINAL: epgorge

Description: Made by Dana S. Carpenter, Apothecary – Middletown Springs, Vermont.
Nice museum quality piece with original box, pamphlet and pill packet. Bottle has complete label and contents and is embossed. Box is in good condition, the top flap has come detached. The box also has IRS 5/8 cent Stamp.
Embossed: TAKE CARPENTER’S / GRIP SYRUP / AND STOP THAT COUGH
Height: 6.25â€
Color: Aqua
Condition: Excellent

Price:
Item No. 122

 

[saratogadriver]

epgorge, you collect VT bottles? Anything in particular, any area in particular? My Mom has a fairly extensive collection, mostly cures, but plenty of apothocaries etc as well. Not too many VT bottle collectors, but a couple on the forum here.

Jim G

 

[epgorge]

Yes, Jim, I too have the bug for beautiful and hand made glass. I do buy Vermont medicine and I have a pretty good start on Vermont pharmacy bottles. Most towns had one. Duane Chase has the most impressive I have seen to date. He and I both collect what we don't have. His list is getting shorter and shorter while mine has miles to go.

Contact me sometime and let me know what ma has kicking around.

Joel

 

[saratogadriver]

I'll have to send you a pic of the middletown unembossed label that I have. It's NOT a saratoga type embossed, but rather one of those green, turn mold unembossed bottles. The label is completely different also from the one's I've seen, with "Montvert" water or some such thing, and an image of the hotel. The Middletown historical society has borrowed it before, they don't have one.

I'll try to remember to send you a couple of pics when I get a chance. I have all the mineral waters, Mom ran out of room. I have one big shelf where they, and some of my bigger inks reside.

Jim G

 

[JustGlass]

I live just a few miles from Middletown and until now I thought the only bottle from there was the Green and Amber healing springs bottle. Thanks for showing it. I will keep my eyes open for one. Is it embossed Middletown Vt.?