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Friday, August 19, 2022

Brown Embossed Piso Company of Warren PA Bottle.


Here is a Treasure Coast Bottle Find: Piso's Consumption Cure.
Top photo embossing: TRADE PISO'S MARK.
Bottom photo embossing: PISO CO. WARREN PA. U. S. A.


The bottle shows two large bubbles indicating that it is a blown bottle. Unfortunately, there is not a maker's mark on the bottom.  The maker's marks can really help narrow down the date of a bottle.

Talbott’s original formula for Piso’s Cure included opium and possibly other morphine derivatives. But the immediate post-Civil War era brought a revulsion against those drugs as many returning veterans had developed addictions to them as a result of treatment for their wounds.  Although Congress only later outlawed opium-derived ingredients in patent medicines, the Trio saw the ban coming and by 1872, according to company literature, eliminated opium and morphine from Piso’s ingredients. They later won a lawsuit on that score. The medicine still contained cannabis (marijuana), chloroform, and alcohol, but Piso’s label did not mention them.

Below is a trade card image advertising Piso's cure for consumption and catarrh.


Whether it was the effects of the Great Depression or the 1937 passage of the Marijuana Tax Act, effectively barring cannabis in medicine, Piso’s corporate life ended before World War II...

Here is a link with much more information on the Piso company and its medicines.

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Sunday, February 20, 2022

Aqua Blown Adolphus Busch Manufacturing Co. Beer Bottle. A. B. G. M. Co.

  


Blown Aqua Adolphus Busch Glass Manufacturing Company Bottle.


This bottle was made prior to 1916.  It shows a lot of bubbles and has an applied top with rounded lower ring.  You can see the markings on the bottom.

For a great site on Adolphus Busch bottles, here is a link.

Friday, July 6, 2018

Two Green Blown Blob Top Bottles


Two Green Blown Bottles Found on Treasure Coast.

Lip of Lighter Green Bottle.

Bottom of Lighter Green Bottle.
Large Bubble in Neck of Dark Green Bottle.

Monday, July 2, 2018

Two Blown Brown Applied Lip Beer or Ale Bottles.




Bottle on Right.

Bottle on Left
Closer View of Lip of Bottle on Left.


Bottom of Bottle on Left.


I.G.CO.L…………..Ihmsen Glass Company, Limited, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (c.1876-1900). Also listed as Ihmsen Window Glass Company. Pittsburgh directory listings show this company included the “Limited” in their name from 1876 to c.1896. Bottles bearing this mark can definitely be attributed to this company.

The other bottle has no bottom labeling.


Figural Italy C. V. D. Barfede Wine Bottle.

  Figural Bottle Find. I thought this was one of the best bottles I ever found.  It seems to be painted pottery and has a nice seal on the b...