New cures from Reno

[markh]

I was at the Reno/Expo show 2 weeks ago and found 10 or so new cures for my collection. I also got to meet ktbi (Ron) from the forum and see his impressive Kidney bottle display. Wish I'd thought to ask some of the other nice people I met there if they were members of the forum. I was looking for Andy Volkerts, a cure collector from CA who posts here, but no one had seen him. should have contacted him before the show.


Here are a few of the nicer bottles I found:

Warners diabetes cure London - olive green fading to amber at the bottom
Warners safe cure Rochester 1pint - been looking for one of these for awhile, they're much harder to find than the 1/2 pint Safe Cure. The dealer I bought it from, Randy Taylor of Chico CA actually had 2 variants of this one, I picked cruder looking one.
Warners Safe Cure London - yellow-greenish
and a very scarce Orcutt's Sure Rheumatic Cure

Mark

 

[markh]

The yellowish 1/2 pint Warners fits in well with the ones I have. Warners have some cool mold variants/colors from London.

 

[markh]

Finally the Orcutt's. Cobalt cures are hard to find! Thanks to John Wolf for this one.

Mark

 

[fighting_blue_jay]

Those are some beauties you got there!

 

[andy volkerts]

Hello Mark, very impressive warners! and I love the Orcutts, I was seriously down with a bad cold, so I didnt make the Reno show, Da__ missed a good one from everything everybody tells me. great bottles thanks for posting them, always nice to see a rare cure!!

 

[RIBottleguy]

That's Orcutt's is a real beauty Mark! It's in my top 10 wanted list since it's from Woonsocket, RI. Since I can't afford (never mind find) one yet, I'll enjoy the excellent picture.

 

[markh]

Hi Andy,

Sorry you couldn't make it. It would have been nice to meet you. Reno was a great show. There were some cure bottles around, but you had to hunt. John Wolf had some good ones, but I think I was his only customer. He had a rare "For Colds/ Coughs Croup &/ Immediate Relief/ & / Speedy Cure" for sale. It's in an unusual flask shape with double collar lip. Embossing is weak. A small batch of them were found in a basement of a store in Brooklynn, and John bought them all. This is the last one he has for sale.

He also had some bottles that are hard to find: a blue Fennings Fever curer, and blue Salade's Magic Mosquito bite Cure, Hoyt's Posioned Blood cure, and a Dr. Crosby's Secret Remedy Cures Female Complaints and some others I can't remember.

If you're interested in any of these, I can put you in touch with him. Here's a photo of his table and of my Speedy cure.

I missed out on a 2 pint green Warner's Animal cure from London, looked at it hard on Friday, then after sleeping on it, I went to buy it on Sat and it had been sold! ya snooze, ya looze!

There was a DR. LORYEA'S UNK WEED REMEDY& RHEUMATIC CURE for sale from an Oregon digger/former cure colletor. It had noticable lip chip on it, but the asking price was a bit too much for a damaged bottle, so I passed on it. But it was a beautiful bottle, the first I've seen for sale of this one. Maybe one day!

Mark

 

[markh]

Hi Taylor,

Thanks for the info on the Orcutts. Always good to know where these bottles originated. Do you have any advertisements or further info on this one?

Mark

 

[RIBottleguy]

Mark,
Here's a link to some research on W.N. Orcutt on the Little Rhody Bottle Club website.

Link

Also, this sold on ebay recently:

 

[markh]

Very cool ad. Thanks so much! The middle panel with the roman gladiator reminds me of the embossed figure on Hermanus Germany's Infalliable Dyspepsia Cure from Reading PA. Wonder if one of these companies copied the other for the image?

Mark