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Tag Archives: bitters
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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Jacob & David Hostetter – Dr. J. Hostetter’s Celebrated Stomach Bitters
Jacob & David Hostetter Dr. J. Hostetter’s Celebrated Stomach Bitters 30 October 2018 (R•033119) (R•130919) David Hostetter was a millionaire manufacturer of one of the most, if not the most famous and successful bitters ever produced, the Dr. J. Hostetter’s … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Civil War, Collectors & Collections, Ephemera, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Tonics
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Dr. Perley’s Leptandrin Tonic Bitters – Lebanon, New Hampshire
Dr. Perley’s Leptandrin Tonic Bitters – Lebanon, New Hampshire 22 October 2018 I found a tall advertisement (below) for Perley’s Leptandrin Tonic Bitters and was able to match it up with an example that John Pastor sold in his American Glass … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, History, Medicines & Cures, Tonics
Tagged bitters, Doctor, Druggist & Drugstore, Harvard, Isaac Newton Perley, Lebanon, Leptandrin, New Hampshire, Tonic
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Dr. Zadoc and Madame Zadoc Porter – New York
Dr. Zadoc and Madame Zadoc Porter – New York Dr. Zadoc Porter’s Medicated Stomach Bitters 17 October 2018 In separate bitters folders I had clippings for Porter’s Bitters and another file for Zadoc’s Bitters. I thought I would wait for … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Medicines & Cures, Remedy
Tagged Balsam, Benefactor, bitters, Cough, Hall & Ruckel, Madame Zadoc, medicated, Medicine, New York, pills, Quaker, Remedy, Ruckel & Hendel, Stomach, sugar, Zadoc Porter
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Red Cross Bitters
Red Cross Bitters 13 October 2018 Here is a really cool, circa 1870, patent medicine label (below) that the Library of Congress is holding for William B. Dorman’s Original Red Cross Bitters. Pictured is a crusader in armor with a … Continue reading
Posted in Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, History
Tagged atwoods, bitters, Boxford, chemist, crusader, Druggist & Drugstore, essex, Georgetown, label, Massachusetts, military, perfumer, Private, Red Cross, Saint George, shield, William B. Dorman
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Looking at Spanish Bitters
Looking at Spanish Bitters 12 October 2018 R•041219) The Library of Congress holds this great advertising patent proof lithograph label for Gainer’s Celebrated Spanish Bitters (above) being transported by a passenger train, steamboat and horses and wagon emblazoned with the … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Questions
Tagged advertising, bitters, Camden, Celebrated, Dr. Zavia, Druggist & Drugstore, Gainer, Gainer's, Garlichs, Herman, label, Max Lichtenthal, Maximillian, Medicine, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, newspapers, P.C. Armstrong, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Santa Fe, Spanish, St. Joseph
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PE-RU-NA For Catarrh – The Great American Fraud
PE-RU-NA For Catarrh – The Great American Fraud 08 October 2018 Yesterday, I put together a post on TO-NI-TA which reminded me of PE-RU-NA. Early 1900 fraudulent medicines with similar graphics treatment in their names, similar bottles, and the same time … Continue reading
TO-NI-TA – Dr. Lorentz’s Mucous Membrane Bitters
TO-NI-TA – Dr. Lorentz’s Mucous Membrane Bitters 07 October 2018 I found some neat newspaper advertising for TO-NI-TA, Dr. Lorentz’s Mucous Membrane Bitters that made me pause and want to know what To-Ni-Ta means. Best I can figure is a play … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Ephemera, History, Medicines & Cures, Miniatures, Remedy, Tonics
Tagged advertising, bitters, brain, Cattarrh, Flat Iron, Lorentz, Medicine, Membrane, Mucous, New York, sample, stimulent, TO-NI-TA, Tonic, treatise
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Dr. Frank’s Laxative Tonic Bitters
Dr. Frank’s Laxitive Tonic Bitters If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. 01 October 2018 Now here is a cool bitters bottle that up until now, … Continue reading
Posted in Bitters, liquor, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Questions, Tonics
Tagged alabama, bitters, Dr., Franks, Laxative, Mobile, Tonic, unknown
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Dr. Michael Cox’s Bitters – Pittsburgh
Dr. Michael Cox’s Bitters – Pittsburgh H. Obernauer & Company 23 September 2018 I’d forgotten about my Dr. Michael Cox’s Bitters with the three embossed cocks until somebody posted a picture of an example on PRG Facebook the other day. … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, History, liquor, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Spirits
Tagged bitters, cox, Germany, Herman, Hermann, liquor, michael, Obernauer, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Stomach, Whiskey, wholesale, Wine
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