Steve/sewell
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I picked this up on eBay today what a great looking medicine bottle.This is J R Rowands first bottle
He first put these into the market in 1828.I have an advertisement from a Philadelphia Newspaper
from 1829 with an ad listing the product.This bottle is very crude which adds to its charm.I really like
the six sided bottles.
This is the first variant as it has the rolled type of lip seen so often on old chestnut bottles.There is a deep
blow pipe type of pontil on the base.There is a draping of bubbles one after another that run up and down
the side of the bottle almost like a curtain or roller coaster.The bottle is super whittled but in pretty good shape
for a dug bottle.Later the Comstock Company copied this bottle forcing J R to the word IMPROVED to the bottle
in 1835.
This bottle is Southern New Jersey made at the Harmony Glass Works in Glassboro New Jersey as
they were the sole agent selling this product in 1829.There are other variants of this bottle .If any of the
members have these or any of the ROWANDS products please post them here as I would love to see them.
The first picture is side by side with one of his competitors at the time Swaims Panacea.Both bottles have the
early rolled lip.
He first put these into the market in 1828.I have an advertisement from a Philadelphia Newspaper
from 1829 with an ad listing the product.This bottle is very crude which adds to its charm.I really like
the six sided bottles.
This is the first variant as it has the rolled type of lip seen so often on old chestnut bottles.There is a deep
blow pipe type of pontil on the base.There is a draping of bubbles one after another that run up and down
the side of the bottle almost like a curtain or roller coaster.The bottle is super whittled but in pretty good shape
for a dug bottle.Later the Comstock Company copied this bottle forcing J R to the word IMPROVED to the bottle
in 1835.
This bottle is Southern New Jersey made at the Harmony Glass Works in Glassboro New Jersey as
they were the sole agent selling this product in 1829.There are other variants of this bottle .If any of the
members have these or any of the ROWANDS products please post them here as I would love to see them.
The first picture is side by side with one of his competitors at the time Swaims Panacea.Both bottles have the
early rolled lip.
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