Well, it is officially winter, a season that some may call the slowest season for bottle collector/ diggers. Thankfully a good portion of January has been mild enough to keep the ground digable, so I have dug a few times, and was even crazy enough to jump in a salt marsh too! Even with the snow, ebay and bottle shows help break up the monotony. Here are some of my first finds of the season.
A friend of mine recently came across a
Geo. H. Lees Prescription Pharmacist Providence, RI medicine
at a yard sale. Despite my protest, he insisted on giving it to me
as a gift! It's a beautiful completely unlisted medicine, and I'm
very grateful for it!
I dug an unusual bottle marked Magic
Atomizer at the city dump during my last visit. I was about to
write it off as a generic piece, but a quick Google search produced
an old catalog show the Davol Rubber Co's selection of magic
atomizers. The rubber part has been through the ringer, but it looks
like a match!
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I grabbed an Oliver Johnson &
Co. Wholesale Druggists Providence medicine off ebay, which is
not normal for me since these are usually common. This example did
not have the usual sunken front panel, and was a nice larger size.
What does one do when you are close to
running out of variants of the prolific Otis Clapp & Son
bottles? How about throwing in a dose cup for good measure? Not
only is this a nice scarce piece, but it is embossed Boston &
Providence, making it a two state dose glass.
I made some good buy's at this year's
annual Little Rhody Bottle Club show, but they were mostly listed. A
Rosseau & Brown the Rexall Store Woonsocket, RI was
listed, but it was an unlisted size at 5-3/4”.
