my 1st 2 poison bottles

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Bytown digger

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i dug these on my very 1st time out digging
 

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mazingmaryann

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I was told that poison bottles were heavily embossed to help distinguish them from, perhaps cough medicine that a person was reaching for in the middle of the night. You have to remember that people couldn't just switch on the electric lamp as many homes did not have electricity.
 

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Those are really nice! I don't remember ever seeing a bilingual poison before.
 

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Other than the obvious, is ther any way to determine what was originally in this type of bottle? As-in: certain poisons were only contained in a specific type of bottle?
 

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