What is Pepto-Mangan (Gude)?

[carling]

Can anybody tell me what this bottle is? It is 6 sided, with Pepto-Mangan (Gude) embossed down one of the sides. Light aqua, about 6.75 inches high, seam stops before the lip. And is it rare or common?

 

[carling]

embossment

 

[carling]

bottom....

 

[LC]

Hello Rick, I have always considered the one I have to be a medicinal of some sort, not 100 per cent sure if that is what it is though.. I have had mine for a number of years, and I have seen quite a few of them over the years as well. I would think they would be like any other bottle though, the closer they are to where they came from, the more there is of them most likely. It is not a knock out bottle, but I like mine, that is why I have hung on to it all these years. I think yours is embossed a bit different from mine though. I have not seen mine for ages, as it is in a box somewhere, but I am thinking mine is embossed with something on the bottom as well. Will try and locate it and see.[/align]

 

[capsoda]

It is a med. Pepto-Mangan was supposed to inrich your blood with iron but it was proven not to do anything. Quack med but not really dangerous. Gude is German for good.

 

[RICKJJ59W]

Here is a pic of the bottom of the one I found in a 1870 pit thay are common in my (area), it says...... DR A Gude & Co. with an embossed heart in the middle, seems like Gude is a Doctor, cap says Gude is good in German, so DR good?

 

[RICKJJ59W]

heres an another one first was bad..

 

[cowseatmaize]

Good is gut, sehr gut is very good! The med was Dr. A Gude & Co.
I think Warren was havin' a "bit o' fun"

 

[capsoda]

Nope not funnin. The piece I read from and old news paper on the internet says German buy I was thinking Dutch or Scandinavian. If you Goggle up Pepto-Manan you will gep alot of result.

 

[LC]

Mine is embossed on the bottom like yours, never saw one of them that wasn't.