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Medicine Bottles121 of 453Pineules, 1910sUnopened Liniment
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    Posted 7 years ago

    SpiritBear
    (813 items)

    Cuticura has been around since 1865, starting as a medical soap. The product helped treat skin afflictions. While this is a very commonly seen brand, this piece was interesting enough to purchase.

    This bottle is circa 1906, but likely circa 1910 as it is embossed with the ounces. I picked it up more for the bottle than the critically damaged label. The glass colour is somewhere between green and mint, which is not as common. That it more or less had a label sealed the deal.

    Typical tooled top bottle in patent med shape. Still retains some yummy Cuticura Resolvent, which is one of their lesser-seen products (bowel and digestive trouble, which is the most commonly seen medicine type of the day).

    Another feature of this bottle is what we call vent-holes in the moulds. Little holes were drilled in certain areas of moulds to let air escape so the glass could fill the mould.

    While nothing exciting is of that, that a heavy amount of vent-holes were drilled through the words graven into the mould-- to the point of being obsessive (every letter on one side of the bottle, actually, has one or more)-- makes it a fairly interesting study.

    Whenever vent-holes are drilled through the words, the embossing on the bottle seems to be thin and shallow. I don't think it has to do with the vent-holes, but it's common in early 1900s American bottles for whatever reason.

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