Local Druggists

[passthebottle]

Yeah, gotta love those local meds, that citrite is especially nice. You guys are tossing your slickers, I'm still graggig them home\\and a some point I'm going to have to stop because I got more now than I know what to do with, just after looking for a long time it's nice to find any blown bottle and find it hard to toss. Is there any blown embossed bottles that you find just so common that they also go into the junk pile or are all the blown embossed ones keepers.

 

[Jim]

Thanks for checking them out, guys. I know of three other embossed Lewistown druggists that I do not have (yet).

We throw out or give away almost all of our slicker medicines, whiskeys, beers, etc. Even Warranted Flasks, coffin flasks and ale bottles. There are just too many of them, and we simply don't want them. I always try to give them to someone rather than throwing them back in the pit. The nicer-looking ones usually get snatched up, but the plain slickers can be hard to even give away.

We also give away lots of common embossed meds. Some of them are pretty decent embossed meds and cures, just ones that we already have. I would rather give them to someone who likes them than take them home just to box them up and never look at them again, or worse yet, sell them to a cheap-a** "antique dealer" for a 50 cents or a buck for them to make a killing on. ~Jim

 

[cobaltbot]

Wow Jim, you are fortunate to have gotten so many nice locals. Here's two of mine I consider local since I grew up (except the maturity part[]) in Bel Air Md.
One I dug whilst growing up and one I bought at a bottle show.

As you already know from collecting poisons, once you get one, putting together a set of graduating sizes is part of the fun. I'm trying to do that with this particular pharmacy. The one's I have are 5" and 4 1/2"

 

[cobaltbot]

Here’s a pic of the same bottles owned by an aging collector that I could buy, but he wants $40 each for them. Luckily he doesn’t have my two sizes and adding four of his five bottles I could end up with a run of 6â€, 5 ½â€, 5â€, 4 ½â€, 4â€, and 3 ½â€. I’m pretty sure there are others in this style because I heard rumors of a twelve inch one! The 3 ½ “ is slightly different as it doesn’t have room for prescriptionists on it. If I buy I think I should start with that one. Collecting the different styles from the same drug store is also fun. Enjoyed your pics, may you dig many more.

Cobalt

 

[Jim]

Hi Steve, Those are some nice druggists. I love the cursive script. The Martin's is the only Lewistown one that I know of with cursive script.

Just my opinion, but $40 is a pretty good deal for a scarce local druggist. I know of a Martin's that brought $300. Outside of this area, it would never do that, but most of my local druggists are very rare and hard to find or buy for any price. I have two different sizes of the Dr. Atkinson. The smaller one doesn't have the monogram (no room for it). I would love to find a few more sizes. A big 12" local druggist would be super sweet. Large sizes are rare, they didn't make nearly as many of them. ~Jim

 

[Lordbud]

Here is a rare example from my neck of the woods.
S. H. Clark
Druggist
Mountain View, Cal.

 

[Lordbud]

Another pair from a town that is no longer in existence.

Bernard Mayer
Druggist
Mayfield, Cal

The smaller of the two had no room for "Druggist" in the mold.

 

[Jim]

Nice bottles, Jason. I really like those old left-slanted block letters. ~Jim

 

[druggistnut]

Hey Jim, (or anyone else that might be interested),
All those slick druggists, Dr Fletchers and any other corkers (ABM or BIM) that come clear or aqua are worth 25 cents each, postage paid.
I have someone who buys all the corkers I can send them, plus, they pay my postage. Best of all, you don't have to clean them. They just have to be damage-free.
It's a good way to make extra mad money, or for your kids to put in a college account (it adds up FAST).
I normally only carry them out if I am close to the vehicle or I have a cart with me. I keep them all, out of privies.
You can stack them up on a dump dig and take a few each time, if you're short on real keepers.
Let me know if you want the contact info.
Bill

 

[madman]

hey jim , steve, lordbud, great stuff here i love local pharms