RARE Texas Patent Medicines

[texasdigger]

Thanks Matt!

The Single Stroke bottle is 9 1/4" tall, and is very striking! Even people who don't like bottles are taken back by it.
It is a true keeper by all accounts. If you can't make out the embossing it is a peagasus with a soldier on his back stabbing a two headed dragon wrapped around a globe. His staff has a flag that says single stroke.

If anyone is looking for Texas drug store bottles let me know. I have a lot to sell or trade.

Brad

 

[GuntherHess]

If you can't make out the embossing it is a peagasus with a soldier on his back stabbing a two headed dragon wrapped around a globe. His staff has a flag that says single stroke.

That may be inspired by St George and the dragon. It was a pretty popular motif.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George_and_the_Dragon

 

[texasdigger]

That was my thought as well Matt! Thanks for your input!

Brad

 

[blobbottlebob]

Gorgeous stuff Brad! The graphics on the single stroke are spectacular!

 

[beendiggin]

Thanks for the pics, Brad...that is a killer collection. Way to go.

 

[Jim]

Great bottles, Brad. You just don't see good, early Texas bottles very often. ~Jim

 

[sandchip]

Great bottles, but that Single Stroke is baaaaaddd!

 

[sandchip]

Seems like I held (after a lot of coaxing) an aqua, open pontiled Texas medicine at either the Louisville National or the Memphis Expo a few years back. Does that one ring a bell, Matt?

 

[GuntherHess]

open pontiled Texas medicine

I cant remember ever seeing a pontil marked medicine with Texas embossed but Texas was certainly a state early enough that there could be some. They would be quite rare I expect.

 

[Lordbud]

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