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Tag Archives: bitters
Dr. Varena’s Japan Bitters – From Tokyo to Peoria
Dr. Varena’s Japan Bitters – From Tokyo to Peoria Lion Manufacturing Company 21 September 2018 Here is a later bitters bottle that never really gets talked about. There is an example in the current Glass Works Auctions | Auction #124 … Continue reading
Posted in Bitters, History, Medicines & Cures
Tagged bitters, company, Dr., Ed Harrold, illinois, Japan, lion, Manufacturing, Oriental, Peoria, Remedy, Tokyo, Varena, Vinegar
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Dr. Hills Restorative Strengthening Bitters – Farmer N.Y.
Dr. Hills Restorative Strengthening Bitters – Farmer N.Y. 20 September 2018 The Dr. Hills Restorative Strengthening Bitters is a hard-to-find bottle that I have only seen once at a bottle show and now twice at auction. Read: Two Exceptional Western New York Bitters … Continue reading
Posted in Auction News, Bitters, History, Medicines & Cures
Tagged auction, bitters, daughter, death, Dr. Hill, Farmer, Farmerville, Glass Works Auctions, Heckler, hill, Interlaken, Ithaca, John, New York, Oscar, Poison, Restorative, Seneca, Strengthening, Strychnine, train, village
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Caldwell’s Wine & Iron Bitters – Medina NY
Caldwell’s Wine & Iron Bitters – Medina NY 13 September 2018 (R•051019-FBN) The other day I did a post on the triangular Caldwell’s Herb Bitters which was centered around York and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It reminded me of another Caldwell named … Continue reading
Looking at the two Caldwell’s Herb Bitters lattice variants
Looking at the two Caldwell’s Herb Bitters lattice variants The Great Tonic 12 September 2018 I thought I would circle back to two tall triangular bitters bottles I picked up in 2002 when I first started collecting bitters. I’m talking … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Medicines & Cures, Tonics
Tagged bitters, Blattenberger, Caldwell, Doctor, Frank Wicker, Goshen, great, grid, Harrisburg, Herb, Keech & Frey, L.A. Marshall, lattice, Lawrence & Co., Tonic, york
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Looking at Dr. Gottlieb Fisch’s Bitters and The Fish Bitters
Looking at Dr. Gottlieb Fisch’s Bitters and The Fish Bitters Ware & Schmitz, Philadelphia 31 August 2018 I can not believe that I have not definitively written about the original figural fish bitters bottles before so I thought I would … Continue reading
Posted in Bitters, Cod Liver Oil, Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Ephemera, Figural Bottles, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Tonics, Trade Cards
Tagged Berlin, bitters, Bottle, Color, Doctor, Figural, Fisch, fish, Germany, Gottlieb, Joe Gourd, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Prussia, Schmitz, Tonic, Ware
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Edward H. Hartshorn – Hartshorn’s Family Medicines
Edward H. Hartshorn – Hartshorn’s Family Medicines Dr. Hartshorn’s Jaundice Bitters 25 August 2018 (R•092018) Recently, I saw the above Dr. Hartshorn’s Jaundice Bitters bottle on eBay (see listing) and liked the color and label which features a key. I don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, eBay, Ephemera, History, Medicines & Cures, Remedy, Trade Cards
Tagged bitters, Boston, card, family, Hartshorn, jaundice, Joe Gourd, Massachusetts, Medicines, Philadelphia, Remedy, trade
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Goldheim Bitters featured in Bottles and Extras
Goldheim Bitters featured in Bottles and Extras 08 August 2018 The July | August 2018 issue of Bottles and Extras has a super article on the extremely rare, Goldheim Celebrated Swiss Stomach Bitters from Baltimore. The article was written by … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Advice, Article Publications, Bitters, Bottles and Extras, Club News, Ephemera, liquor, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Spirits
Tagged article, Baltimore, bitters, Bottle, Bottles and Extras, Celebrated, Goldheim, liquor, merchant, Phillip Lobe, Stomach, Susan Helen Adler, Swiss, Wine
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Daily Dose | July – December 2018
July • December | 2 0 1 8 26 December 2018 | Wednesday Two nice advertisements from the 1878 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania City Directory. The first is listed in Ring and Ham as O 82, Original Aromatic German Bitters manufactured by Charles Schneyer, Not. 154 … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Bitters, Daily Dose
Tagged Atherton, bitters, Capital Tonic Bitters, Daily, Dew, Dose, Drop, Lediard, Malakoff Elixir
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Moses Atwood – Atwood’s Jaundice Bitters – Georgetown, Massachusetts
Moses Atwood – Atwood’s Jaundice Bitters – Georgetown, Massachusetts 02 April 2018 I was going through some material the other day that I gathered for the recent Dr. Henry Baxter’s Mandrake Bitters post which referenced the Atwood’s Jaundice Bitters bottle. … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Medicines & Cures
Tagged bitters, Doctor, Druggist & Drugstore, Georgetown, Jannaice, jaundice, Kansas, Lewis H. Bateman, Luther Carter, Manhattan, Massachusetts, Medicine, Moses Atwood, Moses Carter, Nathan Wood, New Hampshire, physician
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Dr. Henry Baxter’s Mandrake Bitters – Vermont
Dr. Henry Baxter’s Mandrake Bitters – Vermont 27 March 2018 I’ve had a Dr. Baxter’s Mandrake Bitters tucked away in my collection for many years. The bottle is from Burlington, Vermont and is kind of cool because it has 12 … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, Ephemera, History, Medicines & Cures
Tagged advertising, Baxters, bitters, Burlington, Doctor, ephemera, Henry, Henry Baxter, Higate Falls, Joe Gourd, Johnson, Lord, Mandrake, Medicine, physician, Vermont
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