Anti-Malarial Bitters, D. T. Everts & Company – Petersburg, Virginia

29 September 2014 (R•093014) (R•100314)

Tom Leveille sent me the below pictures of the only known example of the open pontil and triangular Anti-Malarial Bitters in a personal Facebook message yesterday. The bottle is in a private collection. It is rumored that a second example resides in the Hunter Cox collection. Boy this is an exciting bottle. Put out by D. T. Everts & Company in Petersburg, Virginia, this bottle is not even pictured in the Ring & Ham Bitters Bottles book though there is a newspaper reference. For Bill Ham, the third panel is blank.

A 75  ANTI-MALARIAL BITTERS
D.T. Everts & Co., Petersburg, Virginia
Lynchburg Daily News (Va.), May 29, 1867
Trade Mark January, 1, issued to S.O. McKerran, New Holland, Illinois (PRG: I do not think this is the same bitters)

[Updated] The new listing in Bitters Bottles Supplement 2 will be:

A 75  ANTI-MALARIAL BITTERS

ANTI-MALARIAL / BITTERS // D. T. EVERTS & CO / PETERSBURG, VA // f //
10? x ?
Tringular, Amber, LTC, Applied mouth, Rough pontil mark, Extremely rare
D. T. Evert was a Civil War veteran and settled at 60 Sycamore Street in Petersburg, Virginia where he became a druggist and wholesale liquor dealer. Probably produced in 1867 and 1868 only.
The Progress-Index (Petersburg, Virginia), March 19, 1867 and June 8, 1868
Lynchburg Daily News, May 29 1867

CHILLS!   CHILLS!   THEIR CONSEQUENCES AND HOW TO AVOID THEM

Anti-Malarial Bitters – Private Collection

Anti-Malarial Bitters – Private Collection

Anti-Malarial Bitters pontil – Private Collection

D. T. Evert was a Civil War veteran of some distinction as I see many military references. With the end of the war, Evert settled at 60 Sycamore Street in Petersburg, Virginia and became a druggist and wholesale liquor dealer. Kind of the same thing back then. The Anti-Malarial Bitters was probably only produced in 1867 and 1868 as you can see from the advertisements below. One advertisement showed that he was also selling the brand in North Carolina in 1867.

Anti-Malarial Bitters by D.T. Everts & Co. advertisement – The Progress-Index from Petersburg, Virginia, Tuesday, March 19, 1867

SIXTY. Anti-Malarial Bitters by D.T. Everts & Co. advertisement – The Progress-Index from Petersburg, Virginia, Monday, June 8, 1868

D.T. Everts helping out with contributions to a Soup House in Petersburg, Virginia right after the Civil War. – December 6, 1865

Select Timeline:

1863: D. T. Everts, paroled, Camp Annapolis, February 1863 – U.S. Returns from Military Posts

1866: D. T. Everts, Virginia, Wholesale Liquors – U.S. IRS Tax Assessment List

1867: Anti-Malarial Bitters by D.T. Everts & Co. advertisement – The Progress-Index from Petersburg, Virginia