Whitwell's Liquid Improved Opodeldoc

[ruccello]

RE: Whitwell's Liquid Improved Opoldeldoc

Wow Woody, what a nice bottle, and what a great friend - looks like Christmas came early for you!

Richard

 

[Wangan]

RE: Whitwell's Liquid Improved Opoldeldoc

I think it was a British med. but I couldnt find out what was in it.Very nice bottle Woody.

 

[woody]

RE: Whitwell's Liquid Improved Opoldeldoc

It could be from Boston, Mass. as a
[*]Whitwell, John P. ~ druggist & apothecary ~ no. 48, Newbury Street
is listed in the Boston city directory from the 1800's.

Which would make sense as it was found in New Hampshire.

 

[Wangan]

RE: Whitwell's Liquid Improved Opoldeldoc

Ok. I was trying to find out what Opoldeldoc was.It was used in Britain so I figured it must be from there.

 

[cowseatmaize]

RE: Whitwell's Liquid Improved Opoldeldoc

Here's an 1805, the earliest so far. I saw the directory stuff from 1848-58
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1805_Whitwell_WinterSt_Boston.png

 

[earlyglass]

RE: Whitwell's Liquid Improved Opoldeldoc

Woody, I sold one of those about 3 months ago. I got it from an old estate in the Keene area, and it is the same size as the Liquid Opedeldoc and a few other cylindrical medicines that I think were produced in Keene during the 1830s.

Mine was the "ORIGINAL OPEDELDOC"... yours is IMPROVED!

Mike

 

[deepbluedigger]

RE: Whitwell's Liquid Improved Opoldeldoc

Isn't this the same Whitwell who used the very attractive rectangular flint glass "Whitwell's Aromatic snuff" bottles?

Opodeldoc was a really widely used medicine in Britain and Europe as well as the US. But I think the liquid type was a US innovation that didn't travel back across the Atlantic. All the British and European opodeldoc bottles I've seen are wide mouth (like the one in the centre of the pic - the colorless one on the left is a Byam's) because the stuff used here was viscous and didn't flow easily.

 

[deepbluedigger]

RE: Whitwell's Liquid Improved Opoldeldoc

Oops. Apologies for the huge photo.

 

[woody]

RE: Whitwell's Liquid Improved Opoldeldoc

It could be, Jerry.

 

[Stardust]

RE: Whitwell's Liquid Improved Opoldeldoc

It would be nice to keep a picture diary of one's bottles and how one got each one in their collection. That's a nice one Woody.