Wanted: 'picture' druggists bottles

[blobbottlebob]

This next one features a cross on it. Kind of universal symbol you'd think.

 

[blobbottlebob]

Okay. I saved the best for last. This one is enough to make me want to collect medicines. It is a green drops for pain bottle from Milwaukee. The bottle is semi-rounded. Straight on the sides, rounded on the front and back. The entire front is a picture. It features an asain man with a pony-tail mixing something at a table / counter. There is also a mortar and pestle in front of him, a stove with something cooking, some scales, a bunch of bottles and jars, a door, a thermometer?, some crocks on the floor, some kind of grinding thing-a-ma-jig, etc. . .

The bottle is blue aqua. Two pictures coming. This first shows the shape and color.

 

[blobbottlebob]

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[blobbottlebob]

Next, here is a flashless pic to show some detail. While this is a crude and nice example, it does have some slight inside stain that you can see.

 

[blobbottlebob]

I thought of one more. This one is not as unusual. It features a mortar and pestle.

 

[stephengray]

Hello Ancientdigger, I have always thought this type of picture was of a handfan. A lot of druggists gave out free handfans as advertisement and maybe this is where this picture came from. I know the aqua Deetken is from the 1890's and yours looks like around 1910 or so.

 

[stephengray]

Hello Staunton Dan, a fellow bottle forum member said that you might be a good source of picture druggists or colored ones and here you have left a post on my thread. Kind of works out. So, do you have anything that I might like?

 

[stephengray]

Blobbottlebob, I like the Oconomowoc with the spatula or paddle. I have a red cross similar to yours but I might be interested anyway. I try to stay away from pestle & mortar picture druggists unless it is colored or has some unusual embossing. That bottle from Milwaukee is definitely a little unique. I was trying to make out the picture or the embossing on the bottle and it was hard. Do you have an idea about how much you might want for them? I need the Prasch Bros. from Burlington, Lion Drug from Fond do Lac, amber Boyden's from Hudson, King's Pharmacy from Janesville, Bellerue from La Crosse (either clear or cobalt), Trott from Milwaukee, Trompczynski from Milwaukee, Bartel from Milwaukee, Young & Pellett from Oconomowoc, Schubert from Watertown, and last but not least the Stapleton from Watertown.

 

[stephengray]

Milkglassbottles, I already have the Sullivan from Boston, not both varieties though. Got anymore colored or picture druggists? Plain colored druggists with no picture is OK also.

 

[Oldtimer]

The only one of my 30 that qualifies as a pictoral..a tulip I think...John Young M.D. Farmington N.H.

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