Part 1&2-Adventure at the old B******n farm....

[RedGinger]

RE: Adventure at the old B******n farm....

Anyone know about a Dr DB Hands? Joe found one of his bottles today and gave it to me. It also says "Scranton, PA" on it. It is aqua and has a nice panel where the label would be. Very cute neck too. I'll have to get a picture of it.

 

[ancientdigger69]

RE: Adventure at the old B******n farm....

Those also come with Philadelphia on them. they come blown, and ABM.

 

[RedGinger]

RE: Adventure at the old B******n farm....

Stay tuned for a few more pics. Joe is uploading them now.

 

[RedGinger]

RE: Adventure at the old B******n farm....

http://www.hagley.lib.de.us/library/exhibits/patentmed/items/drhands.html

Found that so far about Dr. Hand

 

[RedGinger]

RE: Adventure at the old B******n farm....

Here you go Joe. Found this on our bottle you dug. Don't know why this print is so big.
Godfrey's Cordial
A patent medicine given to children troubled with colic. Gray says it was used by the lower orders to “prevent the crying of children in pain†when in want of proper nourishment. It consists of sassafras, opium in some form, brandy or rectified spirit, caraway seed, and treacle. There are seven or eight different preparations. Named after Thomas Godfrey of Hunsdon, in Hertfordshire, in the first quarter of the eighteenth century

 

[ancientdigger69]

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Richard Fike's book has this listed: Probably contained Dr Hands Pleasant Physic. A partial label reads: Mixture for children, a worm elixir, for colic, diharea, etc. Prepared by Hand Medicine Co Philadelphia Pa Successor to DB Hand MD.
Hands childrens remedies were advertised in the 1860's, then in 1948 by Smith Line & French labs Phila Pa. Other products included a cough and croup remedy, a colic remedy, a diharea mixture, general tonic, teething lotion, and a worm elixir.

 

[JOETHECROW]

RE: Adventure at the old B******n farm....

Alright....Here's a couple more.....This is Laur's Dr.DB HAND bottle,...I've dug diff. versions of this over the years.....

 

[RedGinger]

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http://new.music.yahoo.com/uncle-wiggly/tracks/godfreys-cordial--198508010

This is apparently a song about the medicine by some wacky group. Can anyone tell me how to play the song?

 

[JOETHECROW]

RE: Adventure at the old B******n farm....

Thanks guys....Laur's Hand bottle is bim, with a tooled top.....Here's one of the nursers from later in the years of the "Bakebean" houshold....[] This one has Rabbits and Forest motiff.

 

[JOETHECROW]

RE: Adventure at the old B******n farm....

Here's another with Terriers and Elephants and what looks like a circus cage motiff....(These were both under a sheet of old tin, barely buried in a layer of dirt in the cellarhole.)