Sunday, February 20, 2022

Summer Finds #5 2021

This post continues with more additions from my friend's construction site mega dump. One of the most exciting and surprising bottles he found was a Chagnon's Family Drug Store Artcic & Natick, RI. Chagnon bottles are fairly scarce, but they are only from Arctic. He opened a branch pharmacy in Natick that only lasted for about two years, so this bottle is extremely rare!




A free crier from the dig site was a McManus & Meade Weston Hotel Nasonville, RI seltzer bottle. And yes, it is supposed to say Western Hotel but instead says Weston! The McManus & Meade seltzers are quite rare to begin with, never mind an error version!




An L.D. Angell Providence, RI pharmacy showed up as well. It's been quite a while since I saw one of them. At 4-1/8” it is an unlisted size!




Quite possibly my favorite looking med from this site was a Wm. H. Hinds Providence, RI pharmacy. His larger bottles are nice and ornate, and at 6” this one is an unlisted size.




On the way back from a bottle show in CT I drove by a yard sale and it happened to be a member of the Little Rhody Bottle Club! I couldn't believe my luck as I walked away with three exciting RI bottles. The only unlisted one was a James O'Hare Benefit St. Providence, RI pharmacy. The later O'Hare bottles are quite common, but his early examples with the Benefit St. address are quite rare.