Not meaning to sound trite, but all my poisons are my favourites, so I've had a hard time deciding. Anyhow, here's pic of a poison from my collection that comes with a favourite "war" story. Leanne, my wife, and I were paying a regular visit to an antique shop in a tourist village south of Calgary. I breezed over a display case, thinking it contained the usual assortment of china, jewellery, etc. Well, Leanne pulls me aside -- she's good not to make a fuss because some dealers' ears perk up and so do prices -- and whispers to me there's a poison bottle in the display case I had just glanced over. I double back, spot the bottle, ask to examine it, hide my smile, and buy it. It's the one pictured. Now, while it looks like a standard Parke, Davis & Co., it comes with a variant twist, since its base is marked with a Dominion Glass Co. mould number. This makes the bottle an uncatalogued Canadian variant. Leanne has nice eyes, both to look at and for spying bottles I miss in shops!
it comes with a variant twist, since its base is marked with a Dominion Glass Co. mould number. This makes the bottle an uncatalogued Canadian variant.
Let me guess, the number is 632? It's the only one on our charts that has a number. If not, I would love a good image of the base. This has to be one of my favorite poisons too. The KR-9 is relatively common (most sizes), but has such bold embossing and a wide range of sizes and variations, a sizable collection can be made of just this bottle.
Mine's basally embossed with "1282" and not "632". Parke, Davis & Co.'s Canadian branch in Walkerville (part of modern-day Windsor), Ontario used two versions of this "1282" bottle. One was embossed with "POISON" on each of the two narrow sides. The other was plain, with no embossing. The former variant is the rarer. Of the latter, I've seen, over the last 30+ years, hundreds of these unembossed ones. I've dug dozens and dozens in Ontario and every labelled one I've seen has had a "Walkerville, Ontario" label.