It's pretty hard not to fall in love with an old gin bottle ~ especially one bottled back East & shipped to the gold fields of California. These bottles are always crude & quite often shot full of bubbles. They seldom vary from a deep green ~ and yet when sprinkled through a collection of ambers, yellows & blues, they really stand out. The shape is unmistakable. The squashed ring tops are often referred to as a “pig snoutâ€.
Pictured below is a 9 3/4†tall Relyea, Carter & Co Royal Schiedam Schnapps from our collection ...as you can tell from the advertisement....It's good for what ails ya!
From the Statistical Gazetteer of the State of Virginia:
Embracing Important Topographical and Historical Information from Recent and Original Sources, Together with the Results of the Last Census Population, in Most Cases, to 1854
Royal Schiedam Schnapps
Relyea, Carter & Co.
Sole Importers
Office, No 5 William Street, New York
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Messers. Relyea, Carter & Co beg leave to call the attention of the public
to the above-named article, which has been analyzed by the most eminent Chemist
and Physicians, and proved to be not only a harmless and plesant drink, but also
to posses great medical qualities, and furthermore to be superior to any article of
that kind heretofore introduced into this or any other market. The greatest pains
have been taken in manufacturing of this article in Schiedam, under the direct
superintendence of one of the above named gentlemen, whose sole business is to at-
tend to the manufactoring and shipment of the goods from Holland.
Druggists, and others engaged in the trade, who wish to examine it, can
obtain samples at our office, where all communications and orders must be addressed
as we have no agent in this or any other city.
Relyea, Carter & Co.
Office No 5 William Street, New York.
Relyea, Carter & Co's Royal Schiedam Schnapps medicine type bottle, America, 1845 to 1860.
Pictured below is a 9 3/4†tall Relyea, Carter & Co Royal Schiedam Schnapps from our collection ...as you can tell from the advertisement....It's good for what ails ya!
From the Statistical Gazetteer of the State of Virginia:
Embracing Important Topographical and Historical Information from Recent and Original Sources, Together with the Results of the Last Census Population, in Most Cases, to 1854
Royal Schiedam Schnapps
Relyea, Carter & Co.
Sole Importers
Office, No 5 William Street, New York
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Messers. Relyea, Carter & Co beg leave to call the attention of the public
to the above-named article, which has been analyzed by the most eminent Chemist
and Physicians, and proved to be not only a harmless and plesant drink, but also
to posses great medical qualities, and furthermore to be superior to any article of
that kind heretofore introduced into this or any other market. The greatest pains
have been taken in manufacturing of this article in Schiedam, under the direct
superintendence of one of the above named gentlemen, whose sole business is to at-
tend to the manufactoring and shipment of the goods from Holland.
Druggists, and others engaged in the trade, who wish to examine it, can
obtain samples at our office, where all communications and orders must be addressed
as we have no agent in this or any other city.
Relyea, Carter & Co.
Office No 5 William Street, New York.
Relyea, Carter & Co's Royal Schiedam Schnapps medicine type bottle, America, 1845 to 1860.
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