Full front image: Vintage EMERSON’S EXCELSIOR Botanic Bitters Blood Purifier – Circa 1890’s – eBay
EMERSON’S EXCELSIOR Botanic Bitters
28 October 2012
A Tonic that Promotes Digestion, Improves the Appetite, Invigorates the Nervous System and Purifies the Blood.
E. H. B U R N S,
AUGUSTA, MAINE
I have taken a renewed and heightened interest in labeled bottles of late following posts from John Hinkle, Jack Stecher, John Panella and many others. These folks love their labeled bottles. With this said, I post about a bottle now on eBay called an Emerson’s Excelsior Botonic Bitters. This bottle is an excellent example that has a really nice label and applied top that prompts closer inspection. The photographs are also rather nice. The eBay listing is as follows:
Vintage EMERSON’S EXCELSIOR BOTANIC BITTERS Blood Purifier – Circa 1890’s See Listing
9-1/8″ Tall Emerson’s Excelsior Botanic Bitters Bottle. A tonic that Promotes Digestion, Improves the Appetite, Invigorates the Nervous System and Purifies the Blood. Prepared and sold by E.H. Burns – Augusta, Maine – Price 50 cents. Label is all intact. No chips or cracks, some haze in a few spots, overall a great looking bottle. Circa 1880’s or ’90’s. Aqua blue.
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Getting red flags on this label and applications. Red comments below.
Look at this fantastic EMERSON’S EXCELSIOR Botanic Bitters bottle label. E. H. Burns, Augusta, Maine. Unused, VF – Current Eric Jackson Auction
Bottle laying on back: Vintage EMERSON’S EXCELSIOR Botanic Bitters Blood Purifier – Circa 1890’s – eBay
Applied top image: Vintage EMERSON’S EXCELSIOR Botanic Bitters Blood Purifier – Circa 1890’s – eBay
Bottom image: Vintage EMERSON’S EXCELSIOR Botanic Bitters Blood Purifier – Circa 1890’s – eBay
EMERSON’S EXCELSIOR Botanic Bitters – This 12.5″ “ladies leg” bottles has a full label that has faded over the years. Manufactured in Augusta, Maine this bottle is near mint with no condition problems. – past eBay sale
Here’s some more Emerson’s Excelsior examples (bigger red flag) – Brian Wolff
red flags all over that, two of the same exact labels to show up on two different bottles in a short time on ebay? something smells funny there… The shape of that label looks like it belongs on a square…
Yes…there is even another shaped bottle with this label. A couple of facebook comments: I have found a reproduction of Emerson’s bottle in the Fairfield Maine Antique Mall. I have never seen a real one (Coboltmoon Glass) and Agreed – there is a remarkably similar label for Gould’s out of Randloph, VT that I also think is a reproduction. (Jeff Noordsy)