New Early RI Medicines

[RIBottleguy]

The new year has provided a healthy number of early Rhode Island medicines so far. I hope the trend continues! The Enfield, CT bottle show was good despite the bad roads and weather. My best finds were two pontiled Davis Vegetable Pain Killers, a 7" open pontil and a 6-3/4" iron pontil. open pontiled iron pontiled

From ebay I got a nice labeled Davis

Via the Facebook buy/sell page, I was able to pick up a nice hinge molded Dyer's Healing Embrocation.

Ebay also provided a very rare Dr. Hopkins Magic Healing Powder Providence, RI. You almost never see these, and this is a fancy unlisted version.

Lastly, a Dr. Seth Arnold's Balsam. This is the harder to find 4" version.

 

[logueb]

Very nice meds. Buster

 

[Plumbata]

Those are some succulent scores! I really like the Dr. Hopkins Magic Healing Powder, very interesting shape and embossing. I was wondering about that early labeled Davis bottle. Can you explain the "$0,01." coupon/note to me? Were they intended to be soaked/steamed off, collected and actually exchanged for cash? Credit toward fresh bottles? Know any anecdotes or history about that aspect of this popular med? Thanks for sharing!