Dr. Petzold’s Genuine German Bitters – Patent Medicine

Posted on 1 February 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Dr. Petzold’s Genuine German Bitters

01 February 2012 (R•011715) (R•050819)

Apple-Touch-IconAMy friend and Civil War author, Jim Schmidt (see Civil War Medicine) sent me a link today for an eBay listing for a Baltimore Letterhead dated 1887 for a Dr. Petzold’s Genuine German Bitters – Patent Medicine. The listing on eBay reads as follows:

ebaylogoLetterhead from Louis Petzold & Co., Proprietors of Dr. Petzold’s Genuine German Bitters, dated Baltimore, January 28, 1887 to Chas. Yockel. “A Tonic with Unsurpassed Medicinal Virtues – A Great Remedy for Dyspepsia, Malaria, Weakness, & c. & c.” . Illustration of a classic woman standing on a globe. In one hand she has a shield with “The Great Elixir of Life” and in her other hand is a tassel, attached to a Cupid flying above. Contents refer to changing the patent date from 1884 to 1887. [Chas. Yockel was a manufacturer of glass bottles] Measures approx. 8 1/2″ x 11″. Filing punch holes at top, lower right corner missing, edge discoloration.

Letterhead circa 1887 – Dr. Petzold’s Genuine German Bitters – eBay

LETTERHEAD

This got me thinking about Dr. Petzold and some of the bottles and material I possess. I especially wanted to compare my letterhead with the eBay example. I have now updated and included two new letterheads from the Joe Gourd collection. They are in dated order below.

Letterhead dated 1880 – Louis Petzold & Co., Importers, Wholesale Liquor Dealers and Redistillers, Proprietors of Dr. Petzold’s Genuine Imported German Bitters, Nos. 9 & 11 Dover Street, Office and Showroom: 194 W. Lombard St., Baltimore – Gourd Collection

Letterhead dated 1886 – Office of Louis Petzold & Co., Dr. Petzold’s Genuine German Bitters – Meyer Collection

Letterhead dated 1888 – Laboratory of The Dr. Petzold Bitters Co., Dr. Petzold’s Genuine Imported German Bitters, Baltimore – Gourd Collection

LOGO & TRADEMARK

Note the different logo’s and trade-marks. These are really nice illustrations.

DR. PETZOLD

Louis Petzold was born in Brunswick, Germany around 1818. He came to America like many Germans to escape oppression and to start a new life. Settling in Baltimore, he started a family and set up shop as a boot and shoe maker around 1850. He started his company, Louis Petzold & Co. around 1862. They were the proprietors of Dr. Petzold’s Genuine German Bitters, an extremely popular brand favored by collectors. The bitters, also called the “Great Elixir of Life” was first introduced in 1862 from a formula “received from the celebrated Dr. Petzold of Berlin.” It was sold in 50 cent and $1.00 bottles. They also called their bitters a tonic and a remedy so they had all their bases covered.

BITTERS BOTTLES LISTINGS

The Carlyn Ring and W.C. Ham listings in Bitters Bottles are as follows:

P 74. DR. PETZOLD’S ( au ) / GENUINE / GERMAN / BITTERS / INCPT. 1862 /
lower panel unlettered // c // s // PATENTED 1884 // c //
The Dr. Petzold’s German Bitters Co., Proprietors, Baltimore, Maryland
10 5/8 x  4 x 2 1/8 (7 1/4) 9/16
Oval 20 ribs, Amber, LTCR, Applied mouth and Tooled lip, Common
Widest bevel, flat panels
Both the P of Patented and the 4 of 1884 are on the bevel
P 75  DR. PETZOLD’S ( au ) / GENUINE / GERMAN / BITTERS / INCPT. 1862 /
lower panel unlettered // c // s // PAT’D 1884 // c //
10 1/8 x 4 x 2 (7) 1/4
Oval 21 ribs, Amber, LTCR, Applied mouth and Tooled lip, Common
Small bevel, flat panels, unbroken rib over panels
P76  DR. PETZOLD’S ( au ) / GENUINE / GERMAN / BITTERS / INCPT. 1862 /
lower panel unlettered // c // // PAT’D 1884 // c //
7 7/8 x 3 1/16 x 1 13/16 (6 3/4) 5/16
Oval 17 ribs, Amber, LTCR, Tooled lip, Scarce
Small bevel, flat panels, unbroken rib over panels
P 77  DR. PETZOLD’S ( au ) / GENUINE / GERMAN / BITTERS / INCPT. 1862 /
THE ( au ) / GREAT / ELIXIR / OF LIFE // c //
7 x 2 5/8 x 1 1/2 (4 3/4) 3/8
Oval 19 ribs, Amber, Yellow olive, LTCR, Applied mouth and Tooled lip, Rare
Small bevel, flat panels, unbroken rib over panels
P 78  DR. PETZOLD’S ( au ) / GENUINE / GERMAN / BITTERS / INCPT. 1862 / lower panel unlettered // s // PATENDED 1884 // c //
10 5/8 x4x 2 1/8 (7 1/4)
Oval 21 ribs, Amber, LTCR, Applied mouth and Tooled lip, Common
No bevel, sunken panels, unbroken rib over panels
P 78.5  DR. PETZOLD’S ( au ) / GENUINE / GERMAN / BITTERS / INCPT. 1862 /
lower panel unlettered / // s // PATENTED 1887 // c //
10 1/4 x 4 x 2 1/8
Oval 21 ribs, Amber, LTCR, Applied mouth, Rare
No bevel, sunken panels, unbroken rib over panels
P 79  DR. PETZOLD’S ( au ) / GENUINE / GERMAN / BITTERS / INCPT. 1862 /
lower panel unlettered // c //
10 3/4 x 4 x 2 1/8 (7 1/4)
Oval 21 ribs, Amber, LTCR, Applied mouth, Common
Shoulder unlettered, no bevel, sunken panels, unbroken rib over panels

PAMPHLET COVER & PAGE

This wonderful piece is from the Joe Gourd collection.

THE BOTTLES

P 76 Dr. Petzold’s Genuine German Bitters (small size) – Meyer Collection

“PAT’D 1884 (on the shoulder) / DR. PETZOLD’S / GENUINE / GERMAN / BITTERS / INCPT. 1862 / THE / GREAT / ELIXIR / OF LIFE”, (Ring/Ham, P-77), Maryland, ca. 1885 – 1895, yellow olive, 7”h, smooth base, tooled lip. Perfect condition. Extremely rare in this unlisted color. Tired of looking at those plain amber Petzold’s Bitters? This one could change that view! Sidney Genius Collection. – Glass Works Auctions | Auction #130

P 78.5 Dr. Petzold’s Genuine German Bitters (large size) – Meyer Collection

P 78.5 & P 76 – Dr. Petzold’s Genuine German Bitters (large and small size) – Meyer Collection

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“Dr. Petzold’s / Genuine / German / Bitters / Incpt. 1862” Figural Bitters Bottle, America, 1860-1880. Oval form with twenty one horizontal log type ribs, brilliant yellow amber, applied sloping collared mouth with ring – smooth base, ht. 10 1/2 inches; (front label appears to have been coated). R/H #P-79 Retains 99% front label and 60% rear label. The front label is particularly colorful and detailed. Fine condition. Property of The Strong, sold to benefit the museum’s collections fund. – Norman C. Heckler & Company

STONEWARE

Dr. Petzold’s Genuine German Bitters Stoneware Jug – Meyer Collection

PETZOLD VEGETABLE PEOPLE

We’ll start out with some absolutely fantastic trade cards affectionately called the “Petzold Vegetable People” These trade cards are from the Joe Gourd Collection. The Petzold Co. said that their bitters was not prepared with Alcohol or Impure Spirits and relied on vegetables. I wonder why they sold their bitters at saloons?

A Nice SWheat Girl

A Cotton Ball

A Good Smoking Leaf

A Flat Dutch Cabbage

A Corned Indian

A Potato Faced Man

OTHER TRADE CARDS

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Dr. Petzold’s Genuine German Bitters “Grandpas Darling” Trade Card – Meyer Collection

Dr. Petzold’s Genuine German Bitters “1893 World’s Columbian Exposition” Trade Card – Gourd Collection

TESTIMONIALS

Dr. Petzold’s German Bitters – The Record Union, Wednesday, June 29, 1898

Select Listings:

1850: Louis Petzold, Storekeeper, Age: 32, Birth Year: abt 1818, Birthplace: Germany, Home in 1850: Baltimore Ward 16, Baltimore, Maryland, Household Members: Louis Petzold 32, Anna Petzold 29, Henry W Petzold 6, Louis W Petzold 4, William H Petzold 2, Charles Petzold 66 – 1850 United States Federal Census
1860: Louis Petzold, Age: 40, Boot & Shoe Maker, Birth Year: abt 1820, Birth Place: Brunswick, Germany, Home in 1860: Baltimore Ward 16, Baltimore (Independent City), Maryland, Post Office: Baltimore, Personal Estate Value: 500, Household Members: Louis Petzold 40, Annie Petzold 40, Henry Petzold 16, Louis Petzold 14, William Petzold 12, Annie Petzold 7, Edwin Petzold 4/12 – 1860 United States Federal Census
1864: Resolution in favor of Louis Petzold. Resolved by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, That permission be and the same is hereby given to Louis Petzold to erect a small frame bath house in the rear of his premises, No. 109 Sharp street, the same to be removed, however, after three months’ notice to that effect by the Mayor. – The Ordinances of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, 1864
1880: Letterhead dated 1880 (above) – Louis Petzold & Co., Importers, Wholesale Liquor Dealers and Redistillers, Proprietors of Dr. Petzold’s Genuine Imported German Bitters, Nos. 9 & 11 Dover Street, Office and Showroom: 194 W. Lombard St., Baltimore
1885: Louis Petzold & Co. (Louis Petzold), importers and rectifiers of liquor, 140 W. Lombard and 9 Dover, Baltimore, Maryland – Baltimore, Maryland, City Directory, 1885
1887: Louis Petzold & Co. (Louis Petzold), importers and rectifiers of liquors, 10 w Lombard 140, and props Dr. Petzold’s German Bitters, laboratory 117 w Pratt 215, Baltimore, Maryland – Baltimore, Maryland, City Directory, 1887
1887: Letterhead circa 1887 (above) Dr. Petzold’s Genuine German Bitters, Office of Louis Petzold & Co., No. 40 W. Lombard St., Baltimore
1887: The Dr. Petzold Bitters Co. (Louis Petzold), 115 w. Pratt, Baltimore, Maryland – Baltimore, Maryland, City Directory, 1887
1888: Letterhead dated 1888 (above) – Laboratory of The Dr. Petzold Bitters Co., Dr. Petzold’s Genuine Imported German Bitters, No.115. W. Pratt St.,Baltimore
1897: Louis Petzold & Co. (Louis Petzold), liquors, 121 Hanover, Baltimore, Maryland – Baltimore, Maryland, City Directory, 1897
1898: Newspaper advertisement (above): Testimonials for Dr. Petzold’s German Bitters –  The Record Union, Wednesday, June 29, 1898
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What is it about GREEN?

Posted on 31 January 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Reprinted from the Rick Simi’s fine web site WESTERN BITTERS NEWS:

[PRG] This is yet another picture from Dale Mlasko. Dale is a major collector of western glass and has some of the most drop dead gorgeous and rare bottles. Many are green.

For years, I have been attracted to Western bottles in the green color spectrum. I know of many other collectors who also covet “green” glass. There are some spectacular whiskeys, bitters, medicines, and soda in that “Western” green. Here are a few attractive, and still relatively affordable (?) Western bottles in pretty green shades. A nice bubble filled ammonia, Walkers Vinegar Bitters, a nice green sixth, Pacific Congress Springs, Hall’s Sarsaparilla, Dr. J.J. McBride King of Pain, and 5 green jamaica gingers. I have seen some stunning green glass…a Thos. Taylor in Nevada, Cutter non crown in Cal. and a Teakettle whiskey. There are some collections in the West which would knock your socks off! Cannot wait to see one of the Western early beers in green someday (not a Swan). Let’s see some green glass!

Read Further: Western Green Bitters…Let’s Add Some More!

Green Western Bottles - Mlasko Collection

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FOHBC Bottles and Extras

Posted on 31 January 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Here is a collage (below) I put together for the FOHBC web site last year. I think these covers are really cool. Bottles and Extras is a great magazine. Please become a member of the NEW FOHBC. We are growing rapidly. Many great things are on the horizon. The Winds of Change. I think we can get to 2,000 members in the next year. Also with Pam Selenak as Public Relations Director, we are now aggressively positioning the FOHBC as your organization. She is selling memberships left and right. We also are openly asking for articles and story contributions. There is so much to show and say.

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Who We Are

Posted on 31 January 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

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Miller’s Extra Old Bourbon

Posted on 29 January 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

MILLER’S EXTRA | TRADE MARK | E. MARTIN & CO. | OLD BOURBON

29 January 2012

Apple-Touch-IconAWhile hunting for Continental Whisky (note alternate spelling of whiskey) information online I came across some some wonderful pictures of MILLER’S EXTRA OLD BOURBON flasks and cylinders. I have to admit, I really do not know much about the bottle other than reading periodic posts on Western Glob Top Whiskies and seeing them show up at American Bottle Auctions. I’ve seen them before within collections but must have been distracted by other bottles to focus on the Millers Extra.

These are fascinating bottles to me looking inwards as they come in a flask and cylinder shape, the color range is wide, the typographic embossing is great, the crudity and the circle size. What a combination.

In looking at my copy of the great Whiskey Bottles of the Old West by John L. Thomas (copyright 2002) I repost the following Miller’s Extra fifth (cylinder) information found on page 22, 51. MILLER’S (March 28, 1871 to beyond July 20, 1875)

This is an applied top bottle related to the Cutter line. It is usually found in a light shade of amber with some examples having a slight green tone. Broken Miller’s fifths along with the flasks have been found in ghost towns near Bishop (Cerro Gordo, Queens Canyon, etc.) and Lone Pine, California. Pieces of a fifth, and whole and broken flasks were found in the Oquirrh Mountains west of Salt Lake City. Two of the whole Miller’s fifths were found along the Oregon coast.

From Whiskey Bottles of the Old West by John L. Thomas (copyright 2002) I repost the following Miller’s Extra flask information found on page 99, 19. MILLER’S (Large Embossed Pattern) (March 28, 1871 – 1879)

Miller’s Extra was a familiar name to the early western miner, and it stood for good drinking whiskey. The containers it came in have turned up in great numbers in early mining camps of the West. Edward Martin and Daniel Henarie, partners under the firm name of E. Martin & Co. petioned the U.S. Patent Office March 28, 1871, to register the record the Miller’s embossing pattern. They claimed to have begun using this mark on their packages as early as September 1869 in San Francisco.

In 1969, there were about a hundred and fifty of these flasks in western collections.

Photo courtesy of the Utah Historical Society. Typical miner’s boarding house’ thought to be mountains near Stockton, Utah. Late 1870’s?

From Whiskey Bottles of the Old West by John L. Thomas (copyright 2002) I repost the following Miller’s Extra flask information found on page 99, 20. MILLER’S (Small Embossing Pattern) (March 28, 1871 – 1879)

This is the much rarer flask than the Miller’s with the large embossing pattern. In 1969 there were five or so in western collections.

Miller’s Extra flask – large embossing

Refer Western Glob Top Whiskies: American Bottle Auctions Lot 92 – Millers Extra Old Bourbon fifth | Thomas – 51

Refer Western Glob Top Whiskies: Miller’s Extra

Refer Western Glob Top Whiskies: Miller’s Music

Miller’s Extra Old Bourbon trio – Dale Mlasko

Miller’s Extra flask – large embossing

Miller’s Extra flask – large embossing

Miller’s Extra flask – photo Utah Antique Bottle Club

Miller’s Extra flask trio (small embossing- left and two large embossings)

Miller’s Extra flask run – photo Western Glob Top Whiskies

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Aqua GI-85A Lafayette / Liberty Historical Flask

Posted on 28 January 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

I like it when collectors send me pictures and information about an exciting piece of glass. Thanks Michael for sharing.

Good day sir,

I was introduced to your website a while back and have found it to be a very nice site. I thought I would share with you a nice flask that I own. It is a GI-85A Lafayette / Liberty cap. It is the slightly rarer variant known as the “A” Difference being as I would assume you know has a rivet mark or a dimple just above the TT in Lafayette. The extra rare part of this flask is the color. This one is Aqua! Not the most exciting color for any bottle but Connecticut is not best known for making aqua glass. I have seen 1 or 2 86’s in Aqua and I have seen 1 other 85 (not sure if it is the “A” or not) but that one is pretty badly cracked.

In any case I thought you and or your readers may like to see this one.

Michael O’Malley
Littleton, Massachusetts

GI-85A Lafayette/Liberty - O'Malley Collection

GI-85A Lafayette/Liberty - O'Malley Collection

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Look at this CAMPBELL & SEAMAN NEW YORK on eBay – WOW

Posted on 27 January 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

CAMPBELL & SEAMAN NEW YORK – jerseynotsobad on eBay

Look at this CAMPBELL & SEAMAN NEW YORK on eBay – WOW

27 January 2012 * This post has been updated twice with new information provided by Eric McGuire, Tim Adams and Michael George.

Apple-Touch-IconAJerseynotsobad on eBay is selling this incredibly crude New York bottle on eBay that I have not seen before. This is a killer! see listing It is described as follows:

Stoddard? CAMPBELL & SEAMAN NEW YORK Squaty Square Bitters Medicine Bottle Pontil

Wow! Here we have one that I have not seen before. This is one of the crudest early squat square bitters or medicine bottle I have ever seen! Deep reddish puce amber, 6 1/4″ tall and the base measure 3 1/4″ x 3 1/4″. Blown in a mold with what may or may not be a sand chip pontiled base and applied top. Embossed CAMPBELL & SEAMAN NEW YORK. The bottle is so full of whittle it looks like it was carved from wood. Not any real stain with light wear/scratching. Quite a bit of base wear. I do not think it is a dug bottle. There is a large 3/16″ diameter potstone on the base edge that caused a cooling crack that measures 1″ across the base and 3/4″ up one side and 1/2″ up the other side of the base. I tried to show it in the last 2 images. You can see it when held up to a very bright light. The bottle may have been blown in a New England or New York glass house about 1850’s or earlier. The bottle is held up to the sun in Image #4, otherwise the glass is very dark. Also in Image #4, I see a dead moth (not a crack or potstone) inside the bottle next to the embossed &. Probably a very rare bottle.

[Addendum 1] PRG follow-up email from Eric McGuire and facebook post from Tim Adams.

Campbell & Seaman Ad – circa 1859

Ferd,

Holy Cr_p!  Excuse the expletive, but that is a stunning bottle. It looks like something that was made yesterday for Pottery Barn as a decorative item, however, it is truly old. Campbell and Seaman were grocers in NYC and in 1859/60 they were advertising their OLD CONTINENTAL WHISKEY. I am betting this bottle is an example of that product. See the attached ad from the Charleston Mercury for 15 August 1859.

It’s just a lowly “square”, but what an example!

Eric McGuire

[from Tim Adams] 

I have one in a beautiful green. This is just the second one I’ve seen…

[Addendum 2] PRG facebook post from Michael George.

Ferd, I have seen the Campbell & Seaman bottle with the Old Continental Whiskey label. This label looks identical to the soldier on the Old Continental Whiskey bottle.

Continental Whisky

CAMPBELL & SEAMAN  NEW YORK

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Hadlock’s Vegetable Syrup – Iron Pontil sells on eBay

Posted on 27 January 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

HADLOCK’S VEGETABLE SYRUP

1848 Advertisement - James Wilson Prop.

Here is a bottle I saw on eBay that has everything going for it. The HADLOCK’S VEGETABLE SYRUP with an iron pontil. The name, glass crudity, bottle shape, aqua coloration and seller photographs were off the charts. I dropped a square bid of 1k before I went to bed and awoke this AM to see that it sold for $1,025.00. Oh well. It is not a Bitters but wow! Congratulations to the buyer.

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Braille Dots on a DeWitts Stomach Bitters

Posted on 26 January 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Braille Dots on a DeWitts Stomach Bitters

26 January 2012 (R•111514)

Apple-Touch-IconABark Bitters over on facebook posted these two (2) pictures below of  DeWitts Stomach Bitters from E. C. DeWitt & Co. in Chicago with raised dots and asked if anyone was familiar with the mold. Wow, this is an odd bird. Reminds me of Braille. This is pretty cool! I also posted a labeled example from my collection. Updated on 29 April with an example presented by Ed Faulkner.

Read More: An Unknown Millionaire Found In New York

The DE WITTS embossing is made with dots instead of regular raised letters – Bark Bitters

D 64 and D 66 DE WITTS STOMACH BITTERS – Bark Bitters

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Example presented by Ed Faulkner

D 64  DE WITTS STOMACH BITTERS, Circa 1870’s
DE WITTS / STOMACH BITTERS / CHICAGO // f  // f // f //
E. C. DeWitt & Co.   Chicago, Illinois
Known with Chicago removed from panel.
9 1/4 x 2 3/4 (6 3/4) 3/8
Square, Amber, LTC, Tooled lip, Scarce
Label: A tonic for improving the appetite, invigorate the system, regulating the bowels, liver and kidneys, curing dyspepsia, heartburn and sour stomach.

D 64  DE WITTS STOMACH BITTERS – Meyer Collection

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De Witts Anti-Dyspeptic Tonic Bitters – 1866-67 Ottawa, Illinois City Directory

Sometime during 1880, Charles W. Beggs proposed a partnership with E. C. DeWitt who had been manufacturing and selling patent medicines to a local market. Both men at that time were residents of Elk Point, Dakota Territory. A partnership was formed and by 1883 the patent medicine firm of Beggs & DeWitt had moved to Sioux City, Iowa. During 1886 the business was moved to Chicago and eventually the partnership was dissolved. – Collecting Bottles by State, The Ioway, Part 3 – Bitters Bottles, by Mike Burggraaf

dewitts-TM

The advertisement above suggests that De Witts Bitters was being sold earlier than thought. The trademark with the sun and mountains was register much later in 1906.

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A Sampling of the Famous David P. Wilber Barber Bottle Collection

Posted on 25 January 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Gorgeous Barber Bottle in a fiery red and yellow amber double pattern – Wilber Collection

A Sampling of the Famous David P. Wilber Barber Bottle Collection

25 January 2012

Mega collector and persona extraordinaire, Sandor Fuss, called me up yesterday all fired up about…and it was NOT about a world class historical flask or bitters bottle…are you ready…Barber Bottles. Apparently in his mineral business he crossed paths with David P. Wilber, who according to Sandor, has the definitive collection of Barber Bottles. Many are unique, extraordinarily rare and/or have records associated with them for price paid.

“barbers typically filled their own bottles or customers bottles with hair tonic, hair oil, bay rum, shampoo, and rosewater”

Sandor was kind enough to assemble some pictures and shoot them down to PRG for review, editing and posting. I frequently see Barber Bottles in the Glass Works auctions but quite honestly, up until now, have not been swayed. Well that just changed. I think you will have to agree, that these are some of the most gorgeous and incredible pieces of glass assembled in one grouping. I am really impressed with this collection.

Barber Bottles: From about 1870 to 1920, barbers typically filled their own bottles or customers bottles with hair tonic, hair oil, bay rum, shampoo and rosewater. Many were personalized with customers’ names on them—something you would not see in other types of bottles. The bottles came in distinctive colors and shapes so the barber could identify what was in each bottle. Many of them were highly decorative. These bottles stopped being made after the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act made it illegal to refill non-labeled bottles.

Read more on Barber Bottles: Barber Bottles : Beauties in Glass by Steve Charing

David P. Wilber with his favorite Barber Bottles, a unique matched pair..published…

World record price paid for this Barber Bottle – Wilber Collection

A small sample of the David P. Wilber Barber Bottle collection – the front row includes several of his best examples

Amethyst Barber Bottle with blue flowers – Wilber Collection

Bay Rum Barber Bottle with painted spider and web – Wilber Colection

White Milk Glass Bay Rum Barber Bottle with painted flowers and customer name – Wilber Collection

Ceruleran Blue Barber Bottle with pewter gold flowers and leaves – Wilber Collection

Dark Amethyst Barber Bottle with angelic Cherubs – Wilber Collection

Blue Milk Glass Barber Bottle with Cherubs and floral wreath – Wilber Collection

Cobalt Blue Barber Bottle with water goddess – Wilber Collection

Apple Green Barber Bottle  with fountain stars- Wilber Collection

Cranberry Barber Bottle with swirled neck – Wilber Collection

Emerald tubular tree Barber Bottle – Wilber Collection

Cranberry Lilac lava pattern Barber Bottle – Wilber Collection

Pair of Bay Rum bird with banner Barber Bottle with customer name – Wilber Collection

Great looking pair of cranberry and blue Barber Bottles – Wilber Collection

Tiffany signed Barber Bottle – Wilber Collection

David Wilber’s favorite Barber Bottles – Matching Pair Mary Gregory

Sapphire Blue Glass Barber Bottle – Wilber Collection

Yellow Barber Bottle with Drummer – Wilber Collection

Painted Milk Glass Barber Bottle with Children – Wilber Collection

Apple Green Barber Bottle – Wilber Collection

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