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Chemists&Household
This page started out as things you might find in a chemist shop,I should really have called it Misc as it is now home to cures-firegrenades and all manner of stuff.I will try to rearange it all into a more coherant form at a later date or quite possibly never.
From earliest days drugs were kept in earthenware jars and narrow phials,tapering From these general shapes the straight sided cylindrical bottle gradually evolved.In these early times Barbers were still the main surgeons and they favoured either square "case" bottles or coloured "globes" which were still made up to 1900.Patent medicines started to appear around 1800,with goods appearing in odd shaped easy to notice bottles.Whith the advent of hinged moulds chemists could have nanes,dosages and contents embossed on thier bottles,this craze carried on into the latter half of the centuary by the "quack cure" manufacturers,whilst the chemist prefered the acid etched cylindrical bottle for his own use by now.Most medicine bottles are reffered to as "flats" "panels" "ovals"according to shape.
Clarks household ammonia,I would have put this in with Poisons,but it doesn't say poison on it.I believe this is the only known example,I should be interested to find out.Bottle is about 8in high.
National Ammonia-Embossed accross shoulder "national"down the front panel"ammonia"down either side "caution" "not to be taken".Again this could go in with poisons.
Large(nearly 13" with stopper)
pale blue chemist round from Limerick Ireland.Still has brown paper and string around the neck,which was to keep the stopper in place when it was new and unopened,also has original label,sadly only the printed part is readable contents were written in quill pen which though still visible is too faded to read.
Milkglass chemist flat
I know nothing about this except it is probably Edwardian and is a nice
colour.Maybe contained Pickles,I
really don't know.
Cures &Potions
Mexican Hair renewer.Again fairly common I think.
Clarke,s Blood mixture.
From the left =
Masons wine essence
Haymans Balsamic Horehound.Both common.
Clarkes Newfoundland cod liver Oil,there are two variations
on this bottle,This one is the earlier version,as the wording is just embossed on the bottle rather than
being enclosed in a rectangle.
Prices Patent Candle Company.
Radams,Germ Bacteria or Fungus Destroyer.Wm Radam,s
Microbe Killer Registered Trade Mark Dec 13th 1887.Cures all Diseases.Pictorial of a man beating a skeleton.None of this visible in this(bad)picture.This is the English version,much cruder than the USA version.
Fennings Fever Curer.
Fairly common.Also available in Green and Blue(much rarer).
Mr Fenning had his bottles made in Lancashire.
Dr Mackenzies smelling bottle
is embossed on the base,with made in England around front shoulder.There is a variant embossed on base Dr Mackenzies catarrh cure smelling bottle but I have yet to find a stopper to fit,when I do I will display that bottle here too.
Both are not that common but at the same time not too difficult to find either though this one is in absolutely mint condition which is unusual for a dug bottle.
Veno,s Lightning cough cure in the larger 8" size along with an advert for the product.These bottles are very common however there are rarer amber coloured variants known to exist.
Dr Lanes Catarrh Cure Propieter Frederick Hale London.Quite hard to find now
considered rare in some quarters.Dates to around C1885
Green Handysides Blood Food.
G.Handyside traded in the Newcastle area of the UK.He made many cures most of which were focused around the ailments experienced by Miners
all are scarce to rare.See also
Handysides ointment pot on the Miscstone page.
True Daffys Elixir,heavily embossed:-front "true daffys elixir"back"Dicey and Co No 10 bow yard London"sides "unless the name Dicey and Co is in the stamp over the cork
the medicine is counterfeit
There are coloured or black glass versions which are extremely rare though this the most common version is still very hard to find.
B.W.Hair & Son Asthma cure London.The original paper label bore the legend:-"The great success which has attended the use of this medicine has induced me to publish to the world that I have found a certain cure for Asthma"
He ordered asthma sufferers to"sponge every morning and rub well with a course towel"
On analysis this "cure" contained alchohol,glycerin and water.
Rated rare.
Barretts Mandrake embrocation.scarsish by way of the pictorial embossing.Pictorial quack cures are not that common.
1880,s Lung retorer,scarce version with price embossed.
Day&Son in cobalt,embossed "the only genuine Day&Sons chemical extract London.This bottle available in several sizes and three colours Aqua-Green-Cobalt.At around 9" this is a medium sized bottle.With cobalt being the hardest colour to find,though scarceish in any colour or size.
Eye Cups
Vetinary
L to R Benbows dog mixture,Tippers Vitalis"best drink for all animals",Ellimans royal embrocation for horses slough.See also Tippers Sorbilene on the poisons page which could also be classed as a vetinary bottle.
Odds & Ends
Zenobia,common but quite a pretty piece.
3 misc chemist
Miniature bottles,tallest of which is 3 1/2 inches.
Fire Grenade
Mini-Max Fire Grenade
Contained chemicals so that when it was thrown at the fire,it would break and the chemicals reacting to the heat would consume
large amounts of oxygen thereby(hopefully)putting out the fire.Mini-max,s are fairly common I think and probably date to the 1920,s.
feeders Inks
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