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Antique Cobalt Blue Bromo Seltzer Emerson Drug Co., Baltimore, MD bottle For Sale


Antique Cobalt Blue Bromo Seltzer Emerson Drug Co., Baltimore, MD bottle
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Antique Cobalt Blue Bromo Seltzer Emerson Drug Co., Baltimore, MD bottle:
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Cobalt blue Bromo Seltzer by Emerson Drug Company Baltimore MDFrom the information below this piece dates between 1900 - 1920. The bottom marking \"diamondwith the dot\" < .. > is the more rarer piece than the \"circle with an M\". Hand blown with tooled lip. Appears to have been discarded at some time and then / Emerson Drug Co. / Baltimore, MD.

Bromo-Seltzer was an extremely popular drug, in the form of a powder, introduced circa 1891. This concoction was heavilypromoted as a remedy for “sick headache”, upset stomach, headache, hangover, and other maladies. The exact formula varied somewhat in the earlier years, with the main ingredient (originally) being sodium bromide. The bottles are usually found in cobalt blue glass (they are alsorarelyseen in aqua glass), in a variety of sizes. The earlier bottles are hand-blown with a tooled lip, and the later examples are machine-made. The last machine-made types have a screw-threaded lip.Note: Hand-blown (mouthblown) bottles will have two vertical mold seams along the sides of the bottle that gradually “fade out” or appear to be “erased” as the seam reaches closer to the top rim. In contrast, machine-made bottles have mold seams that are usually visible clear up to the top of the bottle, often extending up onto the very top rim).The product is still being sold, as an antacid, and comes in small individual packets as opposed to bottles.The largest size bottles are somewhat scarcer, and harder to find than the typical small size (most common) which measures, in general, about 2 and 5/8″ in height.Many, manymillions of these bottles were made, and the embossed lettering varies somewhat with slight variations in the exact placement, size and shape of the letters. Some bottles exhibit the results ofmold-cutting errors, for instancesometimes the “Z” in “Seltzer” is embossed backwards (as in the case of the small bottle on the right in the accompanying photo). Baltimore,

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