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Drug Store Bottle Amber T Metcalf Co Boston Mass Error Mold 1800s Rare and Nice
Drug Store Bottle Amber T Metcalf Co Boston Mass Error Mold 1800s Rare and Nice
Drug Store Bottle Amber T Metcalf Co Boston Mass Error Mold 1800s Rare and Nice
Drug Store Bottle Amber T Metcalf Co Boston Mass Error Mold 1800s Rare and Nice
Drug Store Bottle Amber T Metcalf Co Boston Mass Error Mold 1800s Rare and Nice
Drug Store Bottle Amber T Metcalf Co Boston Mass Error Mold 1800s Rare and Nice
Drug Store Bottle Amber T Metcalf Co Boston Mass Error Mold 1800s Rare and Nice
Drug Store Bottle Amber T Metcalf Co Boston Mass Error Mold 1800s Rare and Nice
Drug Store Bottle Amber T Metcalf Co Boston Mass Error Mold 1800s Rare and Nice
Drug Store Bottle Amber T Metcalf Co Boston Mass Error Mold 1800s Rare and Nice
Drug Store Bottle Amber T Metcalf Co Boston Mass Error Mold 1800s Rare and Nice
Drug Store Bottle Amber T Metcalf Co Boston Mass Error Mold 1800s Rare and Nice

Drug Store Bottle Amber T Metcalf Co Boston Mass Error Mold 1800s Rare and Nice

$ 5.8

Availability: 46 in stock
  • Time Period Manufactured: Antique (Pre-1900)
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Condition: "Excellent" Original, Antique New England "Estate-Recovered" Condition w/ NO FORMS OF "DAMAGE", NO CHIPS, NO CRACKS, NO OPEN-BUBBLES, NO RADIATIONS, NO DISTRACTING SCUFFS OR ABRASIONS, NO NIPS, NO BRUISES, NO FLEA-BITES, NO STRIKES, NO IMPACT DINGS. Very Clean Bottle with Some Light Indications of Age, Usage + Handling.
  • Color: Brown
  • Item must be returned within: 30 Days
  • Bottle Type: Medicines & Cures
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

    Description

    Offered Here is an Original Late-1800’s American Druggist / Medicine Bottle from Boston Massachusetts.
    Fitted with a “Tooled-Square-Collar Top, The Cylindrical Form Bottle is “Mold-Blown” in Amber-Colored Glass. Measuring about 7 3/4" High, The Bottle Features some Rarely Seen + Interesting Mold-“Alterations” which Makes it an Especially Interesting Example. The Front-Side, Horizontally Embossed Words: “T. METCALF + CO. ~ BOSTON MASS.” are Literally “Pinged-Out” of the Bottle-Mold, Leaving Circular Fuzzy-Looking Indentations where the Embossing Once Was.
    The Bottom of the Bottle is Embossed in a Circle around the Base w: “T.
    METCALF + CO.  / BOSTON MASS.”
    There was a Wide-Line of Various Drug Store Bottles in Different Colors Shapes + Sizes, Used by Theodore Metcalf to Market His Medicines, Colognes + Cosmetic Concoctions while operating His Popular Boston Mass Enterprise for a Few Decades from the 1860’s-Early-1900’s. Along the way He was Partnered with some Other Famous Patent-Medicine Selling Boston Proprietors + Druggists
    ****
    Theodore Metcalf was only 25 years old when he opened his pharmacy, which would grow by leaps and bounds until it became what an
    article
    in the
    National Magazine
    (September 1904) called “the finest drug store in the world.” A
    piece
    in the
    Bulletin of Pharmacy
    (July 1908) features some terrific photographs of the store’s interior.
    An obituary
    of Theodore Metcalf in the
    American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record
    (5 May 1894) compared him to the wise advisor of the
    Odyssey
    and the
    Iliad
    , “the Nestor of Boston’s drug trade.” Metcalf was also credited with “elevating the position of the pharmacist from the rank of a tradesman to that of a professional man.” He was one of the founders of the American Pharmaceutical Association (now the American Pharmacists Association) in 1852.*****