Category Archives: Medicines & Cures

Medicine and Cure Bottle News and Information

To Smoke Opium is to get out of the Train (while it is still moving)

Posted on 14 February 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life … Continue reading →

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Heroin – Purest and Best

Posted on 12 February 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

H E R O I N “In the City Market is the Meet Café. Followers of obsolete, unthinkable trades doodling in Etruscan, addicts of drugs not yet synthesized, pushers of souped-up harmine, junk reduced to pure habit offering precarious vegetable … Continue reading →

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The Amazing 7 Sutherland Sisters

Posted on 10 February 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

The Amazing 7 SUTHERLAND SISTERS Niagara County, New York Tami Barber posted this really great picture (see top above) of the 7 Sutherland Sisters over on Bottle Collectors on facebook. This really caught my eye as I was intrigued by the … Continue reading →

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Dr. Flint’s Rhode Island Bitters Products

Posted on 9 February 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Try this and thou shalt be benefitted!! Dr. Flint’s Rhode Island Bitters Products 09 February 2013 (R•061914) (R•042815) (R•111815) Norman Heckler had a stellar example of a labeled Dr. Flint’s Stomach Bitters in his Auction 102 that closed earlier in … Continue reading →

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Dr. J. W. Poland – Great New England Medicines

Posted on 7 February 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

DR. J.W. POLAND Dr. J. W. Poland – Great New England Medicines 07 February 2013 (R•061714) There was some real excitement to see a stellar example of a deep olive amber DR. J. W. POLAND (pictured above) medicine bottle recently in … Continue reading →

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Dr. Townsend’s Sarsaparilla – A Collection of Variants

Posted on 7 February 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Dr. Townsend’s Sarsaparilla – A Collection of Variants The Most Extraordinary Medicine In The World! by Brian Wolff Sometime before the holidays, say back in October of 2012, Rick Ciralli (Bristol, Connecticut) started and fueled an incredible series of Dr. … Continue reading →

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Whiskey Bottle Tombstone – Clayton, Alabama

Posted on 6 February 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

A wife told her husband that she’d make him a whiskey bottle-shaped tombstone if he didn’t stop drinking. He didn’t. Thank you to Dennis Humphrey for post inspiration. Bottle pictured above is a Dr. J. S. Woods Elixir medicine bottle … Continue reading →

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The old but sexy, Brown & Drake Catawba Bitters lady’s leg

Posted on 25 January 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

BROWN & DRAKE CATAWBA BITTERS The old but sexy, Brown & Drake Catawba Bitters lady’s leg 25 January 2013 (R•030319) The first in the series of Lady’s Leg figural bottles is a ‘doozie’ as it is the predecessor brand to … Continue reading →

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U.S. Gold Bitters – Augusta, Maine

Posted on 16 January 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

U.S. GOLD BITTERS – Augusta, Maine 16 January 2013 (R•010319) (R•012019) Yesterday all started innocently enough with an email from my friend and fellow bitters collector Jeff Burkhardt (Froggy) from Cedarburg, Wisconsin telling me he might take a U.S. Gold Bitters … Continue reading →

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Some Great Pittsburgh Embossed Bottles

Posted on 15 January 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Ferdinand: I thought I would send you a couple of pictures of a couple of new bottles I picked up. Often times forums are hard to explain in detail. I’ve collected Pittsburgh bottles since 1974 and it is neat that … Continue reading →

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