Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts

Friday, June 30, 2023

H. Clay Glover Co. New York Embossed Cure Bottle.

 

Bottle Embossed H. CLAY GLOVER on One Side and NEW YORK on the Other.


Because of the top of the bottle I thought this would be another hair care bottle, but my research, showed that Dr. Glover was a veterinary surgeon who primarily produced remedies for dogs, but also for man.

Gover Ad
Source: HAIR RAISING STORIES


The H. Clay Glover Company, Inc. was founded in 1876 (incorporated June 19, 1916) by Henry C. Glover in New York City, New York. Its industry was veterinary medicines and its headquarters were in New York City, New York (1876-1949).



Thursday, June 22, 2023

J. R. STAFFORD'S OLIVE TAR Bottle.

 


J. R. Stafford's Olive Tar Bottle


The color of the bottle does not show in the photo.  It is actually greenish.


J.R. Stafford’s Olive Tar was a versatile Victorian medicine, first sold in the 1850s. It could be inhaled for its “healing balsamic odors” to soothe the throat and lungs. Or else you could take it “upon sugar” as a sort of makeshift cough syrup. And if you had muscle pain or a skin irritation, you could take whatever of the Olive Tar that you hadn’t inhaled or eaten and rub it on for “its magnetic or concentrated curative powers” of relieving pain.

It was supposed to be “a highly refined extract of the juices of the Olive and the Pine,” according to an 1880 advertisement in the National Repository...

Olive Tar was also supposed to work as an ointment for horses, too. Letters in the Working Farmer (1855) testify to its efficacy in healing the backs of horses, as well as cases of croup and asthma in people.

J.R. Stafford also made Iron and Sulphur Powders to “Re-Vitalize and Purify the Blood,” to energize the nervous system, invigortate the liver, strengthen digestion, “regulate the Secretions of the Body” and worked on “all Female Weaknesses” in the bargain. But at a dollar it was twice the price of Olive Tar.

Mr. Stafford’s establishment was at 442 Broadway, New York on “the east side of the Battery.” ...

Source: Stafford’s Olive Tar – The Vintage Medicine Cabinet (wordpress.com)

According to what I've found, the date range is 1875-1899.

Here is another good link.

J. R. Stafford’s Olive Tar – Bay Bottles

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Friday, May 27, 2022

Bottles Embossed Mexican Mustang Liniment Lyons Mfg. Co. New York.


Found Mexican Mustang Liniment Bottles
Above are two found Mexican Mustang liniment bottles.

Embossed: MEXICAN MUSTANG LINIMENT LYONS MFG. CO.  NEW YORK.

Here is just a little of what the peachridgeglass.com web site says about Mexican Mustang Liniment.

Here’s another all-healing Victorian wonder medicine, this time from the early 1850s, called Mexican Mustang Liniment. The main ingredient was rather startling: the Liniment appears to have been mostly crude petroleum oil. For Man & Beast. There is even a Trade Card (pictured below) showing a fallen lass and a horse with Mexican Mustang Liniment on its way!

And here is just one of the nice ads you will find at the same web site.

Source: peachridgeglass.com web site.
See link below.

And here is the link.

http://www.peachridgeglass.com/2012/02/mexican-mustang-linament/ 

Saturday, July 7, 2018

J. L. Prescott Liquid Stove Polish Bottle.




 Reads: LIQUID STOVE POLISH
MANUFACTURED BY
J. L. PRESCOTT CO.
NEW YORK

This is a nice clean bottle a piece of the cork still inside.


It has a small gouge (shown in the above photo) that was evidently made while the glass was still soft.  The glass from the gouge is on the surface of the bottle (smaller arrow).


Listerine Pharmacal Company embossed bottles.

  One type of common bottle find is the Listerine bottle.  These examples are not screw tops but neither are they older blown bottles.  They...