Rainy day project...

[Poison_Us]

Interesting bottle...at first, looked like the makings of a crack pipe [sm=lol.gif]
Nice wall-o-cobalt [&:]

 

[SAbottles]

Hmm, yes, well ... Out here we have a scourge of a drug locally called tik, which youngsters smoke in carefully broken off light bulbs. Heaven forbid they should get hold of my bottles ! I do have the annoyance at the fleamarket where I trade on weekends, of people picking up the clay pipes I have on my table and then making smirking comments about "smoking ganja" etc. I have to restrain the urge I have towards sarcasm or even violence. As a teacher, and with a wife who was a Social Worker, we see the terrible results of what drugs do, especially to our youth. Sorry if I come across as an old fart ! But I had someone this last Sunday who wondered if he could drill a hole in a glass torpedo bottle to use it as a pipe !! I refrained from commenting !!!

 

[BillinMo]

ORIGINAL: SAbottles

As an ex-English teacher, I have mildly specialised in inks and here are some of them:

"Mildly" specialized? That's quite an assortment. I'm wondering what a "full" specialty must look like!

 

[SAbottles]

Thanks, BillinMo. I am happy with my inks, but I saw collections in England that almost made me weep ! Especially my old namesake Norman Lewis, now sadly deceased ! When I was staying with him, he took me up into his attic and opened up a cupboard - & my eyes just bugged out !

 

[SAbottles]

Here's a photo of the "green window" to balance the blue one:

 

[SAbottles]

Because of our historic links with Holland, we also get some very nice Dutch case gins :

 

[SAbottles]

Here's the bottom of the one nearest the camera with a very rough pontil scar:

 

[JOETHECROW]

Hey,...Well presented and very nice assortment of glass Dale!,...I too like inks and go-withs on a sub scale....Pretty great collection you've got there, and nice to see.

I've heard my share of pipe remarks too, when people realize what they are/were.....and of course the early meds all had Opium/Morphine/ Cannibas/ and Heroin!...don't forget Cocaine.....(Of course they were legal then too),...But that's a whole 'nother' socio-economic can of worms.... from a whole 'nother' era...[]

P.S. Love the Case Gins! J.B.

 

[SAbottles]

Thank you, Joe. Yeah, I just recently got an e-mail from a friend with a whole series of old advertisements for old-time medicines which contained all the substances you named; it would fit nicely here, just trying to figure out how to set up a link - will consult my older son who is a computer whizz (it's his job!)

 

[SAbottles]

Here's one of those adverts
Cocaine drops for toothache.


Very popular for children in 1885.

Not only did they relieve the pain, they made the children very happy!