Welcome back faithful followers! A lot
has happened since my last post. I moved from South Kingstown to
Providence, RI. It's been fun adjusting to city life, and rest
assured, I'm still finding plenty of bottles!
I have been going through a dry spell
when it comes to new local bottles. A Watson's Pharmacy
Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island jarred me out of a state of
semi-awakeness when I saw it listed on ebay. I was friends with the
seller, so he added a buy it now price to spare me the agony of
waiting a week for the auction to end. It is my second size of this
rare pharmacy bottle, and at 3-3/4” was an unlisted size!
My run of Davis Vegetable Pain
Killer bottles is nearly complete. The iron pontil examples were
proving hard for me to find, but I finally got a 6-3/4” iron
pontiled example! These are much harder to find than the open
pontiled examples.
Ah yes, here's another Otis Clapp &
Son Incorporated! This 5-1/2” amber rectangle is my 44th
Otis Clapp bottle. Looks like I'll be on track to hit 50 soon!
I should have more examples of the
popular Dyer's Healing Embrocation Providence, RI.
This 7-1/8” hinge mold example turned out to be unlisted.
I was quite surprised to see an
Earnshaw Drug Company East Greenwich, RI
medicine show up on ebay recently. The listed version is rare to
begin with, and I have never seen this unlisted small (3-3/8”)
style. It fills out my East Greenwich collection nicely!
