Labeled Opium Bottle?

[Robby Raccoon]

At $10 I decided to go for the risk.

I'm not sure if it's an F., T., or R. in front of "Opium U.S.P. / W-R Warner. 1919" on front of a Poison label advertising Seventh Street Pharmacy of Grand Rapids, Michigan (this pharmacy seems a bit obscure, but I found both druggists at the bottom of the label active around that time in G.R., also as a grocer), the label being on a Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. bottle.

U.S.P. is United States Pharmacopoeia. That had already been around for a while and would, by this early 1919 date, have been allowed to produce and distribute opium.
I say 'early' because on the back of the bottle is a heavily damaged label that says, "IN STR???????? Fe(b?) 25 / Inventory 1919".

The pen is correct for the period, and so is the label style. I have a few 1910s bottles similar to this that are also tooled, so it seems correct-- but at the same time it seems too good to be true.

 

[botlguy]

I think it's all correct Bear, looks good to me.
Jim

 

[CanadianBottles]

Looks good to me too. The bottle is a bit weird but the label looks too good to not be true and the base embossing shows that it is from more or less that time period. I'd have certainly done $10 for that one as well!

 

[Robby Raccoon]

Thank you, Botlguy.

Canadian Bottles, the bottle is a typical American apothecary bottle. H. & P. D. Co. had millions like this for their products.The bottle must have been reused by the pharmacists.

I think it's Tincture of Opium, as it looks like a Tr in front of opium.