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Category Archives: Apothecary
Congress Bitters – The Great American Tonic!
Congress Bitters – The Great American Tonic! Dundas Dick & Co. – New York 15 January 2019 I have an amber rectangular embossed Congress Bitters bottle in my collection (pictured at the top of post) that I know nothing about. … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Apothecary, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, Ephemera, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Remedy, Scams & Frauds, Tonics, Trade Cards
Tagged advertising, american, bitters, Bottle, Brooklyn, Broome, calendar, Capitol, capsules, castor oil, chemist, Congress, croton oil, Cure, Domenico Minneill, Druggist & Drugstore, Dundas Dick, Edinburgh, Fraud, J. C. Saur, Joe Gourd, Medicine, New York, pills, Poison, powders, Quinine, Remedy, Sandalwood, Schumacher & Ettlinger, Scotland, Seidlitine, Seidlitz, Tape worm, Thermaline, Tonic, Wooster
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Excelsior Stomach Bitters – Rose’s Drug Store, Westminster, Maryland
Excelsior Stomach Bitters – Rose’s Drug Store Westminster, Maryland 04 January 2019 (R•041019) Here is an advertisement below for a possibly unlisted Excelsior Stomach Bitters that I came across during research for the Excelsior Stomach Bitters post from St. John, … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Apothecary, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Medicines & Cures, Questions
Tagged A. H. Huber, Antique, Baltimore, bitters, Bottle, butcher, Carroll, drug, Druggist & Drugstore, Excelsior, fountain, Huber and Royer, John J. Rose, Main, maryland, Randolph Wehler, Soda, Stomach, store, Street, Westminster
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Dr. Thomas A. Hurley’s Stomach Bitters – Louisville
Dr. Thomas A. Hurley’s Stomach Bitters – Louisville 29 December 2018 The Hurley’s Stomach Bitters bottle is rated extremely rare and is from Louisville, Kentucky. My example is pictured at the top of this post. There is actually a variant … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Apothecary, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Medicines & Cures, Sarsaparilla
Tagged advertising, Antique, Apothecary, bitters, Bottle, card, Doctor, Druggist & Drugstore, J. Walker Seaton, James Ruddle, Joe Gourd, Kentucky, Louisville, maryland, Medicine, Patent, physician, Sarsaparilla, Stomach, Susan M. Rogers, Tennessee, Thomas A. Hurley, trade, unlisted
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Pond’s Bitters “Makes You Go Some”
Pond’s Bitters “Makes You Go Some” 28 November 2018 (R•120418) The story here is about three related Chicago-sold bitters. The first is Lash’s Bitters from California which inspired Rex Bitters and Pond’s Bitters, the subject of this post. Pond’s Bitters was … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Apothecary, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, Ephemera, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Spirits, Tonics, Trade Cards
Tagged advertising, Antique, bitters, Bottle, chicago, Fulton, George Morgan Pond, History, illinois, Joe Gourd, John Joseph Spieker, judge, kidney, Lash, law, Laxative, Liver, manager, Medicine, New York, Pond, Pond's, Prohibition, Rex, risque, San Francisco, sex, Steve Ketcham, Vermo
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Buck’s Aromatic Bitters – a First Rate Tonic & Remedy
Buck’s Aromatic Bitters – a First Rate Tonic & Remedy 14 November 2018 (R•012919) I came across some newspaper advertising for Buck’s Aromatic Bitters and was curious about the brand. It looks like the proprietors were Captain John Thomas Buck and Dr. Pinckney … Continue reading
Posted in Apothecary, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Remedy, Tonics
Tagged Aromatic, bitters, Buck, Buck's, Captain John Thomas Buck, Doctor, Dr. Pinckney T. Baley, Druggist & Drugstore, Finucane, Henry William Yandell, Jackson, lemonade, Mississippi, physician, Remedy, Robert Luther Buck, Southern, Stomach, Tonic, Yandell
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Life Everlasting Bitters – Atlanta, Georgia
Life Everlasting Bitters – Atlanta, Georgia 01 November 2018 Here is a great bitters square that John Pastor had in his recent American Glass Gallery Auction #21 which closed earlier in the week. The picture at the top of the post … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Apothecary, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Medicines & Cures
Tagged amber, American Glass Gallery, atlanta, auction, bitters, drug, Druggist & Drugstore, Everlasting, Georgia, Heinitsh, life, rare, square
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Herkules Bitters – Now in Three Sizes
Herkules Bitters – Now in Three Sizes 26 October 2017 (R•102717) As most of us know, Hercules is a Roman hero and god. He was the equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, who was the son of Zeus (Roman … Continue reading
Posted in Apothecary, Auction News, Bitters, Cordial, Ephemera, History, Liquor Merchant, Questions, Tonics, Trade Cards
Tagged Apothecary, bitter, bitters, Brooklyn, Corey Stock, Edward Caverly, German, God, Hercules, Herkules, Hungary, Jeff Wichmann, Joe Gourd, Joseph C. Street, monogram, New York, pint, quart, Roman, unlisted
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A Haven’s Tonic Bitters I recently picked up from an Arkansas collector
A Haven’s Tonic Bitters I recently picked up from an Arkansas collector 07 October 2017 Here is an email and bottle images below from fellow bitters collector and friend Gary Beatty down central Florida way. I’m a bit suspicious that … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Apothecary, Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Questions, Tonics
Tagged Apothecary, bitters, Cross, Gary Beatty, Haven's, Lowell, Massachusetts, Tonic, Willie
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Paine’s Celery Compound – Makes People Well
Paine’s Celery Compound – Makes People Well 31 October 2015 (R•110115) I think many bottle collectors and diggers start out with an amber Paine’s Celery Compound in their collection. It actually looks just like a bitters bottle. I know when I was first … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Apothecary, Article Publications, Druggist & Drugstore, Ephemera, History, Medicines & Cures, Remedy, Tonics
Tagged Boston, celery, Colonel, Compound, Cure, Edward E. Phelps, Eric Richter, George M. Stone, Gerard Dauphinais, Glen C. Phillips, John Antonez, M. K. Paine, Massachusetts, Medicine, Milton Kendall Paine, Paine, Paine's, Tonic, Vermont, Wells & Richardson Company, Windsor
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C.G. Pendleton’s Tonic, The World-Renowned Stomach Bitters
C.G. Pendleton’s Tonic, The World-Renowned Stomach Bitters … and Baseball 06 May 2015 (R•050715) While working on the Curtis’ Little Giant Bitters post from Bridgeport, Connecticut, I came across this advertisement below for C. G. Pendleton’s Tonic, The World-Renowned Stomach Bitters in … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Apothecary, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Tonics
Tagged Baseball, bitters, Bridgeport, Calisaya, Charles, chemist, Connecticut, Druggist & Drugstore, Gay, Hyler, Noble, Pendleton, Tonic
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