Of the many Palmer & Madigan whiskey bottles listed, I
have a preference for the aqua examples.
This Palmer & Madigan
Importers Cor. Hay & Friendship Sts. Providence pint is unlisted with
the AGS Co. trademark on the base. While
most listings don’t include trademarks on the bottom of the bottle, the Palmer
& Madigan bottles are an exception.
Note that this might be RI-1740, but the lack of a picture and no
trademark mentioned leave room for the unlisted argument.
Included in the Otis collection was an entire family of Chemical Industrial Co. R. DeAngelis
Providence, RI cobalt blue medicine bottles. These attractive bottles come in a number of
varieties, but none are listed with a plain screw cap top. Among the family I acquired three sizes;
5-1/2”, 7-1/4”, and 8-1/4”. (pictured are smallest and largest sizes)
Another commonly found RI medicine is marked D. & M. Co. Providence. While I have a couple sizes of this bottle,
an 8” example stuck out to me. Sure enough,
instead of being a plain square it had rounded sides on the back and a narrower
body and top. The patent date for the
“special” shape on the bottom convinced me to declare this an unlisted version.
I found a pair of S.W. Himes medicine bottles from Phenix,
RI in one of the first dumps I’ve dug.
Their neat shape (3 panels on the front with a rounded oval back) make
them pretty attractive. I was excited to
see this large 7-1/2” example with fancy script embossing. The front reads: S.W.
Himes & Co. Manufacturing Pharmacists Phenix, RI.
Yet another large unlisted medicine was a Geo. L. Claflin & Co. Pharmacists
Providence, RI. This 8-1/2” bottle
was an unlisted size.
