Rare Maine bottle

[downeastdigger]

Hi guys. Hey Sam, and anyone else. Ever see this Bangor bottle Chuck got diving the other day? It's "almost pontiled", and is embossed " BLOODS, / RHUEMATIC COMPOUND / BANGOR, ME". I'm thinkin it's a good one!

 

[downeastdigger]

Hard to believe it isn't pontiled

 

[GuntherHess]

Its a pretty good bottle. I havent seen a pontil marked one.
They also made blood's rhuematic elixir. A labelled one listed I.S. JOHNSON & CO. Proprietors.

I dont have a photo of it in the Medicine Nexus ...
http://www.antiquemedicines.com/MedicineNexus/B/B.htm
Post it and enter the contest...hint ...hint ...[]

 

[Clam]

I am going to get worried if another diver pulls out a Crips rhumatic elixer !

 

[downeastdigger]

HI Matt, I'm slow at the tech stuff, what do you want me to do so you can get it listed in your guide?

 

[GuntherHess]

what do you want me to do so you can get it listed in your guide?

To get it in the online guide just say "Matt you may use my photo" and I will put it in there.

and/or

You can post it as an entry in my contest and have a chance to win an emerald master ink... here http://antiquemedicines.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=258

Thanks for posting it in either case...

 

[downeastdigger]

That sounds easy..

How about this.

"Hey Matt, you can use this, or ANY OTHER BOTTLE I POST HERE ON THE FORUM, from this date forward 3/25/10, including any photos posted, to add to your awesome and I most appreciated Medicine bottle guide. I hope I can add dozens more bottles to your guide.

 

[GuntherHess]

Thanks , that works[]

 

[beendiggin]

Nice one, it's always fun to dig the local stuff.

 

[Sam_MaineBottles]

Hey Bram -

That Blood's bottle is a nice one, one of the nicer/cruder early smooth base meds from Maine. The product was first made by Horatio Blood & Frank Rowe who were in biz in Bangor in the early 1860s. I have a labeled example like the one Gunther mentions which was sold by Isaac Johnson. Isaac's dad was Abner Johnson, the originator of Johnson's American Anodyne Liniment way back in the early 1800s. The couple of Blood bottles like yours I've seen were priced around $40.

See you in a couple of weeks in Somersworth - Sam