Posted 10 years ago
JDbella
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I found this bottle between floor boards in a house that was built around 1890's to 1900's in Kentucky. Label in good shape, rubber stopper, marking on bottom of bottle, but can not find any information on this bottle. Roughly 3inches tall, amber color glass, label indicates it was used as an antidote.
If you keep peeling up the floorboards perhaps you'll find the body! I'm reading the label a bit different than you: the label clearly states the contents (Iodine) is poison; the "Antidote" is instructions on the back of the bottle for what is required to treat a person who may ingest the poison - the bottle doesn't (didn't) contain the antidote itself.
Posting a photo of the marking on the bottom of the bottle may help people here identify it for you.
I realize it is poison, I assumed that it was directions to use the tincture . Tincture to me indicated a form of medication. Depending on the year it was used....there was a lot of crazy remedies that people used to cure illness. On top of that there is a cemetery stone on the property that indicates wife and infant dated 1889. We bought the house and it was left completely furnished from the past.
This bottle was found next to a bed, which is made out of mesh springs with a feather mattress, but between the floor boards. I have reacher , but am not about to find information about label or bottle. New at this....
Typo "able"
Iodin tincture is still in use for disinfection of wounds (very painful to apply!) or for nail mycosis.
It was also used in drops for hypothyroid disease in old times.
Manufactured by "Elk manufacturing company" Jellico, Tennessee !
Iodine is still used every day in hospitals across the U.S. before surgeries, before stitches etc...
Here is a site that may help your search, in fact there are many sites widely available to help you, but you can start here:
http://www.antiquebottles.com/dating.html or you can just look up
Digger ODell
That's so awesome that you got the house with everything in it...I'd love to come over there and do a little search myself...lol You may not have a standing home when I got done... ;) Attic and basement!!! Walls too much fun!