Green glass apothecary bottle. Large and straight sided with high shoulder and out-turned lip. Blown pontil glass. Label on front.
drug jars
glassblowing
glass (material)
paper (fiber product)
drugstores
medicine
Shaker (Christian sect)
Glass
Unidentified Paper
Blown
Shaker
Apothecary
Medicine
BOTTLE, APOTHECARY
Handwrittin label attached to front/side: Nine Oil Linement/1 oz oil Sossice [?-indistinct] 1 "" "" Wintergreen/1 "" "" Peppermint/1 "" "" Cinnamon/1 "" "" Hemlock/1 "" "" Sassafras/1 "" "" Cloves/1 "" "" Pennyroyal/1 "" "" Wormwood/3 qts. Alcohol In pencil at bottom corner of label: $2.17
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Shakers (Maker)
USA
13 x 5.5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.402
New Hampshire (United States)
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