old.s.bottles
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Wooden-Barrel-E-E-Dickinson-Co-Witch-Hazel-/190563122585?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c5e727d99
"Hawes Healing Extract started to be manufactured around 1846 in Essex Connecticut by druggist Alven F Whittemore. Whittemore maintained the "Golden Treasure" name coined by Pond.
Whittemore partnered with a Reverend Dickinson in Essex which became a major witch hazel manufacturing center.
"Reverend Dickinson successfully coordinated the cutting and distilling of the witch hazel bush (Hamamelis Virginiana), to which was added a 14% solution of alcohol. This formula remained a Dickinson family secret during their control of the company. He centralized production in Essex and by his death in 1900, had made it the "center of the world," as far as witch hazel was concerned. "
1866 Mr. T. N. Dickinson, the founder of the firm of E. E. Dickinson Co.of Essex, Conn., began the manufacture and sale of witch hazel in bulk."
From antiquemedicines.com
Too bad I can't get the real barrel
"Hawes Healing Extract started to be manufactured around 1846 in Essex Connecticut by druggist Alven F Whittemore. Whittemore maintained the "Golden Treasure" name coined by Pond.
Whittemore partnered with a Reverend Dickinson in Essex which became a major witch hazel manufacturing center.
"Reverend Dickinson successfully coordinated the cutting and distilling of the witch hazel bush (Hamamelis Virginiana), to which was added a 14% solution of alcohol. This formula remained a Dickinson family secret during their control of the company. He centralized production in Essex and by his death in 1900, had made it the "center of the world," as far as witch hazel was concerned. "
1866 Mr. T. N. Dickinson, the founder of the firm of E. E. Dickinson Co.of Essex, Conn., began the manufacture and sale of witch hazel in bulk."
From antiquemedicines.com
Too bad I can't get the real barrel
] Please keep me in mind if you ever decide to part with it... I collect Witch Hazel oriented stuff, and I love all the early botanical and herbal named meds (Hops and Boneset), etc...I hope you don't mind me showing a few of my goodies? This topic doesn't come up often on here.... Thanks,...Joe
