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Dandelion Bitters – The Great Herb Blood Remedy
Dandelion Bitters – The Great Herb Blood Remedy John H. Sheehan & Company, Utica, N.Y. 03 February 2015 The other day I noticed a Dandelion Bitters advertising trade card on eBay that I was not familiar with. The bitters was … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, Ephemera, Medicines & Cures, Remedy, Trade Cards
Tagged advertising, bitters, Blood, card, Dandelion, DeWolf, Dow, drug, Druggist & Drugstore, Gourd, Greenway, grocer, Herb, Kelly, liquor, Meyer, New York, Remedy, Sheehan, trade, Utica, Vidvard, Wine, XXX
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Is the Hunyadi Janos Saxlehner’s Bitterquelle a bitters bottle?
Is the Hunyadi Janos Saxlehner’s Bitterquelle a bitters bottle? 01 February 2015 (R•020215) No, the Hunyadi Janos Saxlehner’s Bitterquelle is not a bitters bottle so let’s get that out-of-the-way, right quick. Most new bitters collectors, including myself, remember seeing a Bitterquelle either … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Bottling Works, Ephemera, History, Medicines & Cures, Mineral Water, Postage, Trade Cards, Water
Tagged Andreas, Aperient, Bitterquelle, bitters, Bottle, Buda, Budapest, card, French, Hungary, Hunyadi, Janos, Laxative, Mineral, postal, Saxlehner, spring, water
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Kaufman’s Celebrated Blue Jacket Bitters – Indianapolis
Kaufman’s Celebrated Blue Jacket Bitters – Indianapolis 28 December 2014 While working on the post for the Dr. B. H. Kauffman Stomach Bitters from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, I checked the Joe Gourd collection inventory list to see if Joe was holding any … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Civil War, Ephemera, History, Liquor Merchant, Questions, Spirits
Tagged advertising, bitters, blue, card, Celebrated, Charles, Civil, Germany, Gourd, indiana, Indianapolis, Jacket, Kaufman, liquors, Louisiana, Moses, trade, war, Wine
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Looking at a Burdock’s Blood Bitters Rebus
Looking at a Burdock’s Blood Bitters Rebus 27 October 2014 by Joe Gourd Ferd, Sorry, nothing for the Chicago Hunki Dori. I do have something for your Bath, Maine, Hunk (hairy eye) Dori post. Using the eye in place of the … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Ephemera, Holiday, Humor - Lighter Side, Medicines & Cures, Questions, Trade Cards
Tagged advertising, bitters, Blood, Burdock, card, Eye, Gourd, hairy, Joe, pictogram, pictures, puzzle, Rebus, trade, words
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Coleman’s Tonic Bitters – Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Coleman’s Tonic Bitters – Portsmouth, New Hampshire 23 October 2014 (R•102614) Bitters trade card authority Joe Gourd sent me the following e-mail in reference to the A.W. Coleman’s Anti-Dyspeptic and Tonic Bitters post. “Enjoyed your post on Coleman’s Bitters. While … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Apothecary, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Medicines & Cures, Tonics, Trade Cards
Tagged advertising, Apothecary, bitters, card, Coleman, Congress, Druggist & Drugstore, Gourd, New Hampshire, Portsmouth, Rockingham, Tonic, trade, Vaughan
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The Lash’s Gentleman in a Hat
The Lash’s Gentleman in a Hat 28 August 2014 | Mystery Solved 082814 14:55 Here is an interesting e-mail I received yesterday about Lash’s Bitters. This seems like a question for bitters trade card authority Joe Gourd. Is there a … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Ephemera, History, Mailbox Letters, Questions, Tobacco, Trade Cards
Tagged advertising, american, Baseball, bat, bitters, card, cards, Casey, ephemera, error, Gourd, Hat, Honus, Ink, Lash's, Lithographic, misprint, sheet, tobacco, trade, Wagner
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An unlisted Russell’s Alterative and Tonic Bitters
An unlisted Russell’s Alterative and Tonic Bitters 18 April 2014 (R•041914) (R•040819) You may have remembered the 1836 Russell’s Stomach Bitters post from Vermont the other day. Bitters trade card authority Joe Gourd, saw the post and went looking in his … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Apothecary, Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Druggist & Drugstore, Ephemera, Hair Tonics, History, Medicines & Cures, Perfume, Questions, Tonics, Trade Cards
Tagged alterative, Apothecary, bitters, Bradford Allen, Brandon DeWolfe, card, Castanaine, Druggist & Drugstore, E. S. Russell, Elias, George Waddy, Hair, Joe Gourd, Nashua, New Hampshire, Russell, Russell's, Smith, Tonic, trade, Whittemore
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Dr. Copp’s White Mountain Bitters Advertising Trade Cards
Dr. Copp’s White Mountain Bitters Advertising Trade Cards From the Joe Gourd Collection 01 March 2014 (R•053019) As usual, when I ask bitters advertising, ephemera and trade card authority Joe Gourd a question, involving a rare bitters piece, I get … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Collectors & Collections, eBay, Ephemera, History, Trade Cards
Tagged advertising, Alexandria, ancient, Babylon, beach, bitters, Black, card, Collossus, Copp, Currier, Diana, Egyptian, ephemera, Gourd, Halicarnassus, Ives, Joe Gourd, jupiter, Lighthouse, Manchester, Mausoleum, Mountain, New Hampshire, Pyramid, Rhodes, road, sepia, sign, slavery, Temple, trade, White, wonders, world
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Dr. Dromgoole’s English Female Bitters & Yellow Fever
Dr. Dromgoole’s English Female Bitters & Yellow Fever 25 January 2014 (R•012415) “Within the oyster’s shell uncouth, The purest pearl may hide.” So with the afflictions that lurk among the females of our land. The pale cheek, the palpitating heart, the dull eye, the … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Druggist & Drugstore, eBay, History, Medicines & Cures, Trade Cards
Tagged Ashburn, bitters, Brunswick, Candler, card, Courtenay, Dromgoole, epidemic, Female, Fever, Gober, Gourd, Grenada, Ham, Irish, Kentucky, Louisville, Memphis, Mississippi, Parham, physician, Shelbyville, Tennessee, trade, Virginia, yellow
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Looking at Austen’s Forest Flower Cologne Ephemera
Looking at Austen’s Forest Flower Cologne Ephemera 11 January 2014 While working on the post yesterday for the King’s Liver and Kidney Bitters, based on the below trade card from Joe Gourd, I said I would circle back and look at … Continue reading