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Tag Archives: chemist
Garry Owen Strengthening Bitters – Ball, Lyons & Co.
Garry Owen Strengthening Bitters Ball, Lyons & Co. and I. L. Lyons & Co., New Orleans 24 February 2019 Did you know that Garry Owen Strengthening Bitters was named after an Irish tune for drinking and a quickstep dance? The … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Civil War, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Tonics
Tagged bitters, chemist, Columbia, Custer, dance, Druggist & Drugstore, Garry, grocer, Irish, Isaac Lazarus Lyons, Issac L. Lyons, Louisiana, New Orleans, Owen, South Carolina, Strengthening, tune, William Ball
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Congress Bitters – The Great American Tonic!
Congress Bitters – The Great American Tonic! Dundas Dick & Co. – New York 15 January 2019 I have an amber rectangular embossed Congress Bitters bottle in my collection (pictured at the top of post) that I know nothing about. … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Apothecary, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, Ephemera, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Remedy, Scams & Frauds, Tonics, Trade Cards
Tagged advertising, american, bitters, Bottle, Brooklyn, Broome, calendar, Capitol, capsules, castor oil, chemist, Congress, croton oil, Cure, Domenico Minneill, Druggist & Drugstore, Dundas Dick, Edinburgh, Fraud, J. C. Saur, Joe Gourd, Medicine, New York, pills, Poison, powders, Quinine, Remedy, Sandalwood, Schumacher & Ettlinger, Scotland, Seidlitine, Seidlitz, Tape worm, Thermaline, Tonic, Wooster
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Red Cross Bitters
Red Cross Bitters 13 October 2018 Here is a really cool, circa 1870, patent medicine label (below) that the Library of Congress is holding for William B. Dorman’s Original Red Cross Bitters. Pictured is a crusader in armor with a … Continue reading
Posted in Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, History
Tagged atwoods, bitters, Boxford, chemist, crusader, Druggist & Drugstore, essex, Georgetown, label, Massachusetts, military, perfumer, Private, Red Cross, Saint George, shield, William B. Dorman
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Loranger Globe Bitters – What is your Story?
A. Loranger Globe Bitters – What is your Story? 25 September 2018 (R•092618) (R•092718) (R•100518) I received an email and pictures this morning from John Throop. “Hi Ferd – was happy to find this Loranger Globe Bitters jug on eBay … Continue reading
Posted in Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, eBay, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Perfume, Questions, Scents, Stoneware
Tagged Amos, Arthur, baking powder, Bay City, chemist, Detroit, Druggist & Drugstore, fire, flavoring extracts, Flemington, Fred C. Loranger, Fulper, glaze, Grayling, grocer, insolvent, Jack Sullivan, John Throop, jug, Laboratory, Larry Throop, Loranger, Michigan, New Brighton, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, perfumes, question, Sherwood Brothers, Steve Ketcham, stoneware, zinc
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C.G. Pendleton’s Tonic, The World-Renowned Stomach Bitters
C.G. Pendleton’s Tonic, The World-Renowned Stomach Bitters … and Baseball 06 May 2015 (R•050715) While working on the Curtis’ Little Giant Bitters post from Bridgeport, Connecticut, I came across this advertisement below for C. G. Pendleton’s Tonic, The World-Renowned Stomach Bitters in … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Apothecary, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Tonics
Tagged Baseball, bitters, Bridgeport, Calisaya, Charles, chemist, Connecticut, Druggist & Drugstore, Gay, Hyler, Noble, Pendleton, Tonic
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The little Clark’s Giant Bitters
The little Clark’s Giant Bitters 03 May 2015 You know, when I think of a “Giant”, I think of the Jolly Green Giant, Jacks’ Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum Giant, Andre the Giant or some kind of odd-ball circus pictures or Guinness Book of … Continue reading
Looking at Boerhave’s Holland Bitters – Pittsburgh
Looking at a Boerhave’s Holland Bitters – Pittsburgh 25 February 2015 (R•022715) (R•042619) (R•012123) Jeff Wichmann currently has a Boerhave’s Holland Bitters up on his American Bottle Auctions “For Sale” page that prompted me to pull my example out of … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Remedy
Tagged Amsterdam, Benjamin, bitters, Boerhaave, Boerhave, Cable, chemical, chemist, Disrael, Druggist & Drugstore, Electro, Holland, Missouri, Netherland, Page, Pennsylvania, pharmacist, Pittsburgh, Remedy, Wichmann
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Bond’s Dandelion Bitters – Fort Wayne, Indiana
Bond’s Dandelion Bitters – Fort Wayne, Indiana 1868. — XX. — S-Y-L. 04 February 2015 A short post this morning looking at yet another unlisted bitters. This time it is the Bond’s Dandelion Bitters from Fort Wayne, Indiana. The bitters … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Medicines & Cures, Tonics
Tagged bitters, Bond, chemist, Columbia, Dandelion, Fort Wayne, herbs, indiana, Medicine, Nomes, roots, Sarsaparilla, Tonic, William, Wine
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Dr. William S. Love’s Vegetable Elixir – Baltimore
Dr. William S. Love’s Vegetable Elixir – Baltimore 25 November 2014 I don’t know if you noticed, but there was this incredible Dr. W. S. Love’s Vegetable Elixir – Baltimore in Glass Works Auctions The ‘Christmas Comes Early’ Catalog Auction #105 … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Apothecary, Auction News, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Medicines & Cures
Tagged Ague, Apothecary, Baltimore, chemist, Druggist & Drugstore, Elixir, Fever, John, love, physician, pontil, Vegetable, William
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