I'm trying to determine some facts about two bottles I have stored that were left to me by an elderly woman who died in Florida. Shelived in Pittsburg, PA many years before moving to Titusville, FL with her son. Both are deceased now.
I'm researching the historical and possible monetary value of these bottles, but I'm especially interested in the historical value.
Each bottle has a a cork. One cork is fully intact, while the other is chipped. Not including the height of the cork, from the lip of the bottles to the bottom of the bottle is approximately 2 1/2 ". The diameter of the bottles is approximately 6/8", so they are very slim bottles.
Each bottle has a label. The length of each lable is appx. 1 5/8". The width of each label is appx 6/8".There is original cotton in each bottle. One bottle contains original pills. One does not. Here's what written on the labels from top to bottom from the width angle:
100 (blue letters)
H-629 (red letters)
THE ZEMMER CO. (blue letters) PGH. (smaller blue letters)
From the height angle, each bottle has written (in red capital letters): POISON. Also from the height angle (top to bottom angle as from the lip to the bottom of the bottle) are what assume to be control numbers. The empty bottle has the number 25267. The bottle which has pills has the number 25892. Each bottle also has an "antique" price lable of some sort which identifies their cist as 1 cent (bottles have a cent sign.)
I was able to find this information about the Zemmer Co. online by going to Google books and "googling" THE ZEMMER CO. PGH. :
JOHN ALFRED ELLIOTT—Mr. Elliott's business career in Pittsburgh has been devoted principally to retail furniture and house furnishing lines, both in an employed and directing capacity. He has broadened his interests in recent years, and is now (1921) devoting himself to his oil-producing operations and completing his withdrawal from mercantile lines.
John Alfred Elliott is a son of John and Fannie Hannah (Ekas) Elliott, his father a farmer of Butler county. Mr. Elliott was first employed on his father's farm, and subsequently entered live stock dealings, in 1885' coming to Pittsburgh, where he completed his education with a course in commercial college. Forming an association with C. F. Adams, house furnishings, he was employed by that firm as a collector, remaining with same for seven years, and rising to the office of manager, from which he resigned to engage in business for himself. In March, 1893, in partnership with W. A. Hutchinson, under the firm name of Elliott & Hutchin- son, he opened a furniture and house furnishings store, and for two years this firm continued operations. At the end of this time, Mr. Elliott sold his interests to Mr. Hutchinson to engage in the furniture and carpet business on his own account, the firm being known as J. A. Elliott & Company. This he sold in 1919 to devote his time and attention to his oil interests. Mr. Elliott is the owner of steadily producing oil properties in the fields of Butler county, Pa., and also owns oil lands in Louisiana and Oklahoma. He is well and favorably known in oil circles.
In 1905, Mr. Elliott aided in organizing the Zemmer Company, manufacturing chemists. He was elected the first president of the company and has continuously held that office during the fifteen years which have since intervened. The Zemmer Company manufacture pharmaceutical preparations of national reputation held in favor by the medical fraternity. The preparations are of the highest grade and the business has shown each year a healthy, prosperous growth.
Mr. Elliott's early' farm life bred in him a love of the soil, and he is the owner of considerable farm lands in Western Pennsylvania. He has numerous interests, commercial and fraternal, in Pittsburgh, and is a member of Duquesne Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, is a York Rite Mason, and a member of Syria Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Pittsburgh. He is also a member of the Pittsburgh Athletic Association, the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, the Americus Republican Club, the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Pittsburgh Credit Men's Association.
(There is a picture of Mr. Elliot on this page at this point in the information.)
Mr. Elliott married, in Pittsburgh, in December, 1919, Henrietta M. Bennett, of Millvale, Pa., and they reside at the Chatham Hotel.
I'm researching the historical and possible monetary value of these bottles, but I'm especially interested in the historical value.
Each bottle has a a cork. One cork is fully intact, while the other is chipped. Not including the height of the cork, from the lip of the bottles to the bottom of the bottle is approximately 2 1/2 ". The diameter of the bottles is approximately 6/8", so they are very slim bottles.
Each bottle has a label. The length of each lable is appx. 1 5/8". The width of each label is appx 6/8".There is original cotton in each bottle. One bottle contains original pills. One does not. Here's what written on the labels from top to bottom from the width angle:
Soluble Hypodermic Tablets
(blue letters)100 (blue letters)
H-629 (red letters)
Morphine Sulfate(red letters down to warning)
1/4 GR.
Warning: May be habit forming.THE ZEMMER CO. (blue letters) PGH. (smaller blue letters)
From the height angle, each bottle has written (in red capital letters): POISON. Also from the height angle (top to bottom angle as from the lip to the bottom of the bottle) are what assume to be control numbers. The empty bottle has the number 25267. The bottle which has pills has the number 25892. Each bottle also has an "antique" price lable of some sort which identifies their cist as 1 cent (bottles have a cent sign.)
I was able to find this information about the Zemmer Co. online by going to Google books and "googling" THE ZEMMER CO. PGH. :
JOHN ALFRED ELLIOTT—Mr. Elliott's business career in Pittsburgh has been devoted principally to retail furniture and house furnishing lines, both in an employed and directing capacity. He has broadened his interests in recent years, and is now (1921) devoting himself to his oil-producing operations and completing his withdrawal from mercantile lines.
John Alfred Elliott is a son of John and Fannie Hannah (Ekas) Elliott, his father a farmer of Butler county. Mr. Elliott was first employed on his father's farm, and subsequently entered live stock dealings, in 1885' coming to Pittsburgh, where he completed his education with a course in commercial college. Forming an association with C. F. Adams, house furnishings, he was employed by that firm as a collector, remaining with same for seven years, and rising to the office of manager, from which he resigned to engage in business for himself. In March, 1893, in partnership with W. A. Hutchinson, under the firm name of Elliott & Hutchin- son, he opened a furniture and house furnishings store, and for two years this firm continued operations. At the end of this time, Mr. Elliott sold his interests to Mr. Hutchinson to engage in the furniture and carpet business on his own account, the firm being known as J. A. Elliott & Company. This he sold in 1919 to devote his time and attention to his oil interests. Mr. Elliott is the owner of steadily producing oil properties in the fields of Butler county, Pa., and also owns oil lands in Louisiana and Oklahoma. He is well and favorably known in oil circles.
In 1905, Mr. Elliott aided in organizing the Zemmer Company, manufacturing chemists. He was elected the first president of the company and has continuously held that office during the fifteen years which have since intervened. The Zemmer Company manufacture pharmaceutical preparations of national reputation held in favor by the medical fraternity. The preparations are of the highest grade and the business has shown each year a healthy, prosperous growth.
Mr. Elliott's early' farm life bred in him a love of the soil, and he is the owner of considerable farm lands in Western Pennsylvania. He has numerous interests, commercial and fraternal, in Pittsburgh, and is a member of Duquesne Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, is a York Rite Mason, and a member of Syria Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Pittsburgh. He is also a member of the Pittsburgh Athletic Association, the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, the Americus Republican Club, the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Pittsburgh Credit Men's Association.
(There is a picture of Mr. Elliot on this page at this point in the information.)
Mr. Elliott married, in Pittsburgh, in December, 1919, Henrietta M. Bennett, of Millvale, Pa., and they reside at the Chatham Hotel.
