Set of 2 - NESOM's Drug Store bottle LOS ANGELES - clear & 7Up GREEN - CLGCo

Description

A lot of 2 =
6" and  7 1/4" tall
rectangular-shaped
nice EMERALD or 7 UP GREEN colored
and COLORLESS clear glass antique
LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA DRUGSTORE
bottles.  These are both early hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottles (
BIM
) with tooled tops, dating back to the first part of 1900
.
Bottle's embossed
:  "
NESOM'S DRUG STORE / 6
TH
& HILL STS / LOS ANGELES, CAL.
"   Then in ribbon design it reads, "
N / GET IT AT NESOM'S
".   Then on the back shoulder of the
GREEN BOTTLE
it is embossed "
NESOM'S
", and on the base of the
GREEN BOTTLE
it is embossed with the old colored drugstore bottle collector's familiar mark "
C.L.G. Co.
", for the Carr Lowry Glass Co. of Baltimore, Maryland, who specialized in hand blowing colored drug store bottles
.
Condition
:   These bottle's are dug bottles and show the tell tale signs of lying on the bank of the Los Angeles River for 75 YEARS!   They have heavy wear and heavy patina (stain and etching).   The clear bottle has
NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.  The green bottle is another story, it has dings, cracks, and last but not least, a hole in the back corner of it.  It actually looks just like what a CENTURY OLD bottle would look like after being thrown down the river bank in 1900 and then being pounded by the elements, high water, and man moving and pushing the land fill around while cementing the bank of the river and running it under ground!
* *
(
more on this in blue, below
)
.  PLEASE see pictures for good idea of the bottle's general appearance!
Age
:  Both are early hand-blown bottles (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with tooled-tops, ca. early
1900's
.
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DOMESTIC
shipping charges
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YOU
pay for shipping/insurance is very close to, if not exactly, the
ACTUAL
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.
These are both scarce-to-rare bottles to find as L.A. is so paved over, few have been found in recent years.  The highlights of these bottles are:
1)The nice, larger 6" and 7 1/" tall, sizes.
2)The beautiful deep EMERALD or  7UP GREEN color of the one.
3)They are WESTERN bottles, WESTERN drug store bottles, one a WESTERN colored drug store bottle.
Not commonly found bottles on account of this.
**
These bottles were dug up nearly 50 years ago on the bank of the L.A. River.  I have a map which shows the area that the old dump was in, which has now long been filled in, covered over, and paved.  It was in a downtown section of that city, and there were many prime bottles that were found on these digs in the dump.   We purchased the collection some time back and there were a handful of green drug store embossed bottles including 1/2 dozen Sun Drug poison bottles and several Sun Drug Citrate of Magnesia bottles.  There were maybe 100 owl drug bottles, several cobalt blue, some amber, and milk glass, a large super rare BRECKLIEN poison bottle, and many clear L.A. drug store bottles.   This is a pair of them that were dug there, side by side,
check them out!
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