zeemang
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Cool looking bottles man, not super old but great looking glass!
GLASSHOPPER1955
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Greeneman215
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That Cardui bottle is cool.
I think it was sold as medicine to relieve menstrual pains, kinda like Midol lol
I think it was sold as medicine to relieve menstrual pains, kinda like Midol lol
Jamflicker
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Cool stuff!
Icewing
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Now you know why it was in the biggest bottle, while her husband's heart meds were probably in the little brown ones.
GLASSHOPPER1955
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Correct. Alcohol fixed everything (or so they thought) in those days.
Here's one I dug about 30 years ago. 8" tall:
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cellrdwellr
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Nice medicines! I enjoy digging medicine bottles.
GLASSHOPPER1955
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Yes, the names and embossings are what makes finding these so much fun.
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GLASSHOPPER1955
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Actually. here in my area of N. Indiana there evidently aren't that many bottle collectors that go after old meds or food bottles. At auctions, I can pick 'em up pretty cheap, like a boxful for $5 at auctions. All the action seems to be in "local" milks, beers, mineral waters. Those can get some good $$, especially if it's a rare one. I have to fight for those at auctions. I think local bottles are what the bulk of collectors look for in any given area of the country. As you would expect, local bottles are worth the most in the area they come from for that reason. I sell all the locals I dig, the others are harder to sell.
The farther east and south you go in the U.S. the more interest there seems to be in old bottles. And way out west also.
Konadog
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Nice Ark....
amc rulz
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I set out a local amber 'Webb's Improved Stomach Bitters' just for kicks, along with about 10 other more common Bitters and old patent medicines at a yard sale. No one blinked and not a single bottle sold at $1 ea!
