Robby Raccoon
Trash Digger
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.
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.