At the last bottle club meeting an avid
digger brought in a real attention-grabber. A J.A. Feeley
Providence, RI medicine with an embossed eagle never left my
hands. There are a handful of RI medicines with embossed eagles, but
they are all hard to find. I was even more surprised to find out it
was an unlisted pharmacist! There is a P.J. Feeley (likely his
father) listed who also had embossed eagles on his bottles.
A trio of hard to find Otis Clapp &
Son Homepopathic Pharmacy Providence medicines was too good to
pass up. I have two versions of this early Otis Clapp bottle, and
now I have four! A 2-3/4” small size was unlisted.
The other was embossed Otis Clapp &
Son Homeo Pharmacy. This abbreviated Homeo version was also
unlisted.
An excavator posted a group of bottles
on Craigslist that he dug up. One was a McKenna Bros. Providence
blob. This example has an oval
slugplate and a different style monogram.
My Cranston connection came through
with a nice hard to find blob. A Ruhland & Co. Cranston
turned out to be an unlisted version. Lewis Ruhland bottles are
uncommon, and Ruhland & Co. examples are even harder to find.
