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Category Archives: Tonics
A Coca-Cola Hutch story from Alabama
Sometimes I get emails and posts on my Peachridge Glass facebook page with little more than just a photograph, which happened in this case. It parked for a day or so until I really looked at the rather nice photograph … Continue reading
Posted in Bitters Bottles, Collectors & Collections, Digging and Finding, Facebook, Figural Bottles, Hutches, Soda Bottles, Tonics
Tagged alabama, Birmingham, bitters, Bobby McGraw, Coca-Cola, Coke, Coleman's, Cullman, Dennis Humphrey, Ensley, hutch, Mobile, Northport, Pineapple, Tonic, W & Co
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J. W. Coltons Nervine Strengthening Bitters & Trade Card
I was looking around eBay yesterday and eventually hit my bookmarked section on Trade Cards. I saw the usual cards, many being Burdock Blood Bitters but one card jumped out for a couple of reasons. The first was the strange … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters Bottles, Collectors & Collections, eBay, Ephemera, Humor - Lighter Side, Tonics, Trade Cards
Tagged Bilious, bitters, Colton, Coltons, Dispepsia, Elixir, indigestion, J.W. Colton, Meyer Collection, Nervine, Nervous, Strengthening, Tonic
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A Very Rare D. Mortimores Great American Fever & Ague Tonic St. Louis Mo.
D. MORTIMORES GREAT AMERICAN FEVER & AGUE TONIC Hi Ferdinand…Here’s one you might not see listed in the pontiled medicine books. A very rare D. MORTIMORES GREAT AMERICAN FEVER & AGUE TONIC ST. LOUIS MO. How can you not love a … Continue reading
Posted in Collectors & Collections, Digging and Finding, Medicines & Cures, Tonics
Tagged Ague, aqua, california, Fever, Great. American, Greer, Mike Dolcini, Mortimores, pontil, sacramento, St. Louis, Tim Henson, Tonic
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Edward Wilder and his Building Bottles
This weekend I was cataloging a bottle from Edward Wilder, who was a Wholesale Druggist in Louisville, Kentucky. I purchased the bottle from John Pastor at the Yankee Bottle Show in Keene, New Hampshire this past October 2011. Typically I … Continue reading
Rohrer’s Expectoral Wild Cherry Tonic
While cleaning my glass shelves yesterday in anticipation of a visit from noted Civil War Medicine author James Schmidt, I spent a few extra moments polishing two of my favorite bottles, the highly ornate, Rohrer’s Expectoral Wild Cherry Tonic (pictured above). … Continue reading
Roped Squares – Russian Imperial Tonic Bitters
Yesterday I wrote about the National Tonic Bitters which probably is the most ornate of the roped bitters. Read: Roped Squares – National Tonic Bitters It prompted a few responses that leads me quickly to the very similar Russian Imperial … Continue reading
Posted in Bitters Bottles, Collectors & Collections, Figural Bottles, Tonics
Tagged bitters, corners, Imperial, Meyer, national, roped, Russian, Tonic
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Roped Squares – National Tonic Bitters
An obvious question in looking at ‘fancy squares’ is “What about the roped squares such as the classic Bakers Orange Grove Bitters, National Tonic Bitters and others etc.? Personally I do not consider these roped corner Bitters as utilitarian squares … Continue reading