This post includes more of my Baltimore
show finds. One of my favorite additions was a D.G.
Hall iron pontiled soda. I have an example with a blob
style top, but this one had a tapered collar lip. When the seller
offered it to me at less than half the asking price, I couldn't say
no!
I was gifted a J. Fred Gibson Co.
Providnence, RI medicie with a
badly damaged lip. I was surprised to discover it was an unlisted
5-1/2” size. The Gibson family grows!
Another common druggist found was a
Geo. L. Claflin & Co. Wholesale Druggists Providence, RI.
The “wholesale druggist” bottles are of an earlier vintage, and
at 5” this one was unlisted.
While technically not an unlisted
bottle, a Dyer's Healing Embrocation Provce, RI did look
different than the example I have. This one had a hinge mold and
crudely rolled lip, just missing the pontil age. My other example
had a circlular mold indentation on the base (slightly newer style)
and a rather neat looking lip. It can be fascinating to see how
these bottles progressed!
In a tie for my favorite bottle from
the show is a Davis Vegetable Pain Killer, pontiled with a
rolled lip! Roughly one in every 50 pontiled Davis bottles has a
rolled lip, making it pretty rare. I was pretty excited to add this
unlisted variant.
