Red Matthews Might like this one

[twowheelfan]

WM. H. GREGG MD NEW YORK CONSTITUTION LIFE SYRUP
8"h x 3"w x 1"d
mold repair under WM

Another mold repair under the C

AND Back is distorted...

Because of this bird swing.

 

[RED Matthews]

You got that right!!!!!!!!! A neat sample of bottlemysteries, except the swing is exceptional because it is so low in the bottle. These are caused by the collapse of the parison letting the inside walls touch and the swing is stretched when the glass is blown out to the mold wall. Thanks for thinking about my likes of old glass making marks. They make the hobby interesting.
RED Matthews

 

[digger dun]

We dug at least 6 of these in one Brooklyn privy all blown from the same mold showing that repair mark that Tim describes. 3 came out intact, and Tim's here is the best example.

 

[twowheelfan]

Thanks for pointing those repairs out to me digger dun! There was so much going on with this bottle they were overlooked until you compared it to yours. It was a great dig!,good times!

 

[botlguy]

That indeed is a terrific bottle, excellent photography and presentation. Thanks for sharing.

 

[twowheelfan]

Thank you for the compliments on presentation. It's quite a tricky one to truly capture in a picture. Needs to be lit several different ways to show each of the points that I wanted to show. Doing it right for all these bottles would be a full time job. I wouldn't have time to dig.

 

[digger dun]

Found this 1866 ad in a Harper's weeky mag that describs the miracles of health associated with Gregg's life syrup.


http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/h/harpersweekly/harpersweekly-idx?coll=harpersweekly;type=HTML;rgn=DIV1;id=;byte=839158

The bottom of the ad has a particularly poignant bit of information:

Buy it, Take it, and be Cured.
WILLIAM H. GREGG, M.D., Sole Proprietor, NEW YORK.
PRICE $1 PER BOTTLE. SIX BOTTLES FOR $5.
Sent by Express to all parts of the Country.

Finding 6 in the same hole blown in the same mold can pretty well date that upper use layer to 1866

 

[twowheelfan]

did you see the valentines ad on that page?

 

[digger dun]

You can supply my valentines? LOL!