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Category Archives: Tax Stamps
Dr. D. Jayne & Son – The Almanac King
Dr. D. Jayne & Son Family Medicines Philadelphia I was spinning around the Internet earlier today and came across three really neat Internal Revenue Proprietary Stamps (pictured below) for Dr. D. Jayne & Son from Philadelphia. Of course I had … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Druggist & Drugstore, Ephemera, Hair Tonics, History, Medicines & Cures, Publications, Tax Stamps, Tonics
Tagged almanac, David Jayne, Dr. D. Jayne & Son, Ebenezer Jayne, Jayne's Expectorant for Coughs due to Colds, Jayne's Vermifuge, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Proprietary Stamp
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Mishler’s Herb Bitters Advertising Wall Clock
Glass Works Auctions has a really cool advertising clock in their current Auction 98. I wish I had more wall space. We already have a old ticking and gonging Ansonia wall clock, Cuckoo Clock, and two mantle top clocks. Lot … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Auction News, Bitters, Ephemera, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Tax Stamps
Tagged Baird Clock Co., Benjamin Mishler, biiters, clock, East Cocalico Township, Herb, lancaster, Mishler, Mishler's Herb Bitters, Mishler's Herb Bitters Company, Mishler's Keystone Bitters, Old Lion Brewery & Distillery, Pennsylvania, Peruna Medicine Company, Reamstown, Samuel Brubaker Hartman
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Marihuana Tax Act 1937
MARIHUANA TAX ACT OF 1937 I suppose it is fitting to see if there are any Cannabis bottles after the recent posts on Peachridge Glass on Cocaine, Heroin and Opium. With my United States postage stamp background, it is exciting … Continue reading
Daily Dose – January 2013
J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 3 Section dedicated to daily thoughts and interests Thursday, 31 January 2013 Wow, this month just went by so fast. Christmas seems so long ago. Back in Houston, dodged … Continue reading
Posted in Bitters, Bottles and Extras, Daily Dose, Figural Bottles, Flasks, FOHBC News, History, Humor - Lighter Side, Museums, News, Postage, Spirits, Tax Stamps, Whiskey
Tagged Baltimore, Bill Taylor, bitters, Daily Dose, Drakes, fohbc, Galveston, Jeff Burkhardt, John April, Kansas City, Kentucky, Lexington, Michael Stresau, National Postal Museum, news, Pittsburgh
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Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup – oooh so soothing
“Oh, jab me with your needle a hundred times, and a hundred times I will bless you, Saint Morphine” Jules Verne (1828 – 1905) Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup was one of the most successful, famous or infamous medicines from our … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Advice, Druggist & Drugstore, Ephemera, History, Medicines & Cures, Remedy, Tax Stamps, Trade Cards
Tagged Bangor, Benjamin A. Perkins, Charlotte N. Winslow, children, Curtis & Perkins, drug, Edward Elgar, Jeremiah Curtis, Maine, Morphine, Mrs. Winslow, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, New York City, Nostrum, Quackery, Teething
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Patent Medicine Proprietary Revenue Stamps
Proprietary Stamps The first revenue stamps in United States were produced to collect taxes on liquor in 18th-century America and were known as Supervisors’ Seals. These revenue stamps were embossed and known as the First Federal Issue. Later, new tax laws were … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Ales & Ciders, Bitters, Civil War, Cordial, Ephemera, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Perfume, Tax Stamps, Tobacco
Tagged B.F.M. Toiuletine, Bennett Pieters & Co, Benton's Pine Tree Tar Troches, Brown's Vegetable Oriental Hair Renewer, cigar, Civil War, Corning & Tappan, Dalley's Galvanic Horse Salve, Dr. Crook's Wine of Tar, Dr. Harter Medicine Company, Dr. M. Lanes Celebrated Liver Pills, Dr. M.L. Byrn's Olio de Flora, Dr. Weaver's Compound Extract of Fireweed, Duponco's Golden Periodical Pills, Edward Wilder Stomach Bitters, Eric Jackson Revenues, Fleming Brothers, Internal Revenue Service, J.C. Ayer & Co., J.W. Campion's Pine Tree Tar Cordial, Jeremiah Curtis & Son Proprietors, L.M. Green, L.Q.C. Wishart, Lactopeptine, Ladd & Coffin, Lundborg's Perfumery, Matches, Medicines, Meyer & Co., Mrs. S.A. Allen's Hair Restorer, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, Poland's Magic Powders, Proprietary Stamp, R.V. Pierce, Red Jacket Stomach Bitters, S.D. Howe Proprietor, Schenk's Mandrake Pills, Schenks Pulmonic Syrup, Schenks Seaweed Tonic, Supervisors’ Seals, tax, tobacco, United States, Vogeler, Walker & Taylor, young
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Log Cabin Series – Kelly’s Old Cabin Bitters
KELLY’S OLD CABIN BITTERS Kelly Brand Development The Kelly’s Old Cabin Bitters is a dramatic example of a figural cabin with a story. With a number of great examples that have been found in mining camps, privies and shipwrecks, a … Continue reading
Posted in Article Publications, Bitters, Bottles and Extras, Figural Bottles, History, Liquor Merchant, Spirits, Tax Stamps, Whiskey
Tagged Belle Memphis, Bertrand, bitters, cabin, Colorado, Figural, Ft. Benton, Glassboro New Jersey, J. H. Garnhart & Co., James B. Kelly, John H. Garnhart, Kelly's, Log, Montana, New York, Old Cabin Bitters, President Grant, Ronald R. Switzer, St. Louis, Steve Sewell, Washington D.C., Whiskey, Whitney Glass Works
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Standing Proud – Poor Man’s Family Bitters – Oswego, NY
Only Think! A Half-pint Bottle of Poor Man’s Family Bitters for 25 Cents: a Mild and Pleasant Tonic, Alterative and Stimulant : Composed of Sarsaparilla, Dandelion, Mandrake, Wild Cherry, Prickly Ash, Red Alder, Valerian, &c. … Manufactured by Poor Man’s … Continue reading