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Congress Bitters – The Great American Tonic!

Posted on 15 January 2019 by Ferdinand Meyer V

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 | Leave a comment

Dr. Zadoc and Madame Zadoc Porter – New York

Posted on 18 October 2018 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Dr. Zadoc and Madame Zadoc Porter – New York Dr. Zadoc Porter’s Medicated Stomach Bitters 17 October 2018 In separate bitters folders I had clippings for Porter’s Bitters and another file for Zadoc’s Bitters. I thought I would wait for … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Medicines & Cures, Remedy | Tagged Balsam, Benefactor, bitters, Cough, Hall & Ruckel, Madame Zadoc, medicated, Medicine, New York, pills, Quaker, Remedy, Ruckel & Hendel, Stomach, sugar, Zadoc Porter | Leave a comment

Dr. Herrick’s Standard Family Medicine

Posted on 25 June 2017 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Dr. Herrick’s Standard Family Medicine Herrick’s Strengthening Bitters and Herrick’s Vegetable Tonic Bitters 24 June 2017 Within this post is reference to two early bitters from 1846 and 1847 that seem to be unlisted. The Strengthening Bitters and Vegetable Tonic … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Bitters, History, Medicines & Cures | Tagged Albany, bitters, family, Herrick, Lewis, Medicine, New York, pills, plaster, quack, standard, Strengthening, Vegetable | Leave a comment

Golden Eagle Bitters – Augusta & New York

Posted on 29 January 2015 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Dr. Tutt’s Golden Eagle Bitters – Augusta & New York William H. Tutt 29 January 2015 Back in August 2011, I had the opportunity to visit with Mike Newman and his extraordinary bottle collection outside of Augusta, Georgia. You can read … Continue reading →

Posted in Apothecary, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Medicines & Cures, Postage, Sarsaparilla, Tonics | Tagged Augusta, Baab, bitters, Bon Air, Druggist & Drugstore, drugs, Eagle, expectorant, golden, Ham, hill, Hotel, Land, Medicine, New York, Newman, Patent, pills, Remsen, Sarsaparilla, Tutt, William | Leave a comment

Old Dr. Bone’s Bitters and Pills

Posted on 10 December 2014 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Old Dr. Bone’s Bitters and Pills 10 December 2014 At first when I saw mention of an Old Dr. Bones’ Bitters I thought it was in reference to a fictitious person and product. I was wrong. Dr. Bone is real. When I … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Medicines & Cures | Tagged beach, bitters, Bone, Bones, bowery, Broadway, Christian, college, Compound, Doctor, Eclectic, grand, Lewis, medical, movement, New York, physician, pills, powders, Root, Vegetable | Leave a comment

Dr. Von Cort’s Restorative Bitters (and his Segars for Asthma)

Posted on 6 December 2014 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Dr. Von Cort’s Restorative Bitters (and his Segars for Asthma) 06 December 2014 With this series of Restorative Bitters posts of late, I can not but feel that they are all connected. The brands all contain the word “Restorative”, “Health” or … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Medicines & Cures, Remedy | Tagged adultery, bitters, Bremen, Broadway, Brooklyn, divorce, Elixir, Germany, health, Medicine, New York, physician, pills, Remedy, Restorative, Von Cort | Leave a comment

An 1836 Russell’s Stomach Bitters Advertisement

Posted on 17 April 2014 by Ferdinand Meyer V

An 1836 Russell’s Stomach Bitters Advertisement 17 April 2014 (R•041814) I found this Russell’s Stomach Bitters advertisement rather interesting for a number of reasons. First, it is rather old, coming from the Burlington Free Press (Vermont) in 1836. An earlier advertisement from … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Medicines & Cures | Tagged bitters, Burlington, free, itch, ointment, pills, Press, rheum, Russell, Russell's, Stomach, Vermont, water, Wine | Leave a comment

Dr. Johnson’s Indian Dyspeptic Bitters – Maine

Posted on 9 April 2014 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Dr. Johnson’s Indian Dyspeptic Bitters MAINE 09 April 2014 Robert Cohen posted the following on Bottle Collectors on Facebook, “Tough, Johnson’s Indian Dyspeptic Bitters bottle, open-pontil, circa 1840, picked-up at Dover N.H. bottle show on Sunday 4/6/14. Dealer (from Maine) … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Collectors & Collections, History, Medicines & Cures, News, Tax Stamps, Trade Cards | Tagged Abner, Bangor, bitters, Brewer, Calvary, Cohen, Dyspeptic, Indian, Isaac, Johnson, Johnson's, Liniment, Maine, Meyer, Morphine, Parson's, pills, powder, Purgative, Samuel, Sheridan's | Leave a comment

Is the Cooley’s Anti Dispeptic Bitters our oldest Bitters?

Posted on 25 February 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

“What is the earliest embossed American Bitters Bottle? Is the Cooley’s Anti Dispeptic Bitters our oldest Bitters? 25 February 2014 (R•083014) There has been some dialogue this past week regarding a Rick Ciralli question as to “What is the oldest … Continue reading →

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Edward Wilder and his Building Bottles

Posted on 12 February 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Edward Wilder and his Building Bottles 12 February 2012 (R•012614) (R•010919) This weekend I was cataloging a bottle from Edward Wilder, who was a wholesale druggist in Louisville, Kentucky. I purchased the bottle from John Pastor (Antique Bottle & Glass … Continue reading →