P.C.G.W. western-blown CELEBRATED HORSE MEDICINE bottle LARGE size 1868

Description

A larger
7" tall
light TURQUOISE AQUA MARINE
colored
rectangular-shape antique
CELEBRATED HORSE MEDICINE
fully embossed bottle.
This bottle was
MADE and MARKETED out west
.  It is marked with the
P.C.G.W.
(
Pacific Coast Glass Works
) base embossing and was sold out of Stockton California   This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top, dating back to the 1800's.
Bottle embossed
:  "
THE CELEBRATED / H H H / HORSE MEDICINE /
D. D. T. 1868
"
.
Condition
:   This bottle is in nice clean condition.  It has minimal wear or stain, and the embossing is
SUPER BOLD
and CRISP, many of these have slightly washed out looking embossing.  NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc
.
Age
: An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late
1800's
.
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What a great looking antique HORSE MEDICINE bottle with the "
CELEBRATED HORSE MEDICINE 1868
" embossing.
There are different sizes of these bottles, 4 sizes that we've seen for sure with the HORSE MEDICINE embossing.  This is an interesting bottle as there are similar bottles that are embossed HHH MEDICINE, no '
HORSE
'.   Here is some things we came up with about this bottle after examining one of these with a paper label.  The label states,
"
H.H. MOORE & SONS / Proprietors & Manufacturers / Stockton, California, U.S.A.
"   We learned that the D.D.T. stood for David Dodge Tomlinson, and starting in the 1860's he worked in the veterinarian field around Stockton, California.  Early on he concocted this medicine and trade marked it in 1868, thus the "D.D.T. 1868" embossing. He entrusted Henry H. Moore & John R. Williams, who had a drug Store at 220 Main Street Stockton, California, to manufacture and distribute the medicine. It wasn't too long after this that the product became so successful that Tomlinson decided to expand his customer base by marketing the concoction to include people, and it then became good for "
MAN and BEAST
".  He then started using bottles that had the word 'HORSE' dropped from the embossing and it became known as "HHH MEDICINE". It gets confusing from this point, I don't have all the facts correct, it is just a rough sketch of the history of the bottle from what I understand so don't quote me from this point on. I believe that Tomlinson may of originally came from Philadelphia with the California Gold Rush, then moved back to Philadelphia around 1870 or 1871 with his HHH formula to make this his home base to market the HHH Medicine. There are national ads in 1872 for Celebrated HHH Medicine stating that Tomlinson and Eldridge were the proprietors, at 920 Front Street, Philadelphia. By 1875, he is listed at 920 Front Street, Philadelphia as "Gifford and Tomlinson" and then Gifford shows up in 1877 in Chicago, which explain why there are also HHH bottles embossed Gifford & Co. Chicago. I have had the HORSE medicine bottle with the very early hinge or key mold base embossing, a 2 piece mold with an early tooled lip. Also I have a few that were made super sloppy and whittled, very crude that must of been blown fairly early, so these may of been some of the earliest bottles. These bottles (with and without the word "HORSE") come in 4 different sizes. One of the rarest is the sample size, about 4" tall, I've only ever had one and it did NOT have the word HORSE on it. Also there is a 6" tall bottle that comes in a beautiful citron color. So this is what I found out about this bottle and why some are HORSE medicines and others aren't.
Please do not copy and paste this information into your listing for selling one of these bottles as I spent a lot of time doing this research. Instead maybe someone else can continue where I left off and further the history.
As the P.C.G.W. base embossing shows, this is one of the early bottles, made and marketed in California
.   T
he embossing is SUPER BOLD and CRISP, it is
one of the nicest examples of this bottle
that we've ever seen.
, c
heck it out!
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