Bottle, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Bottle, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1996.036.023
- Date:
- 1905-1920
- Description:
- Bottle, medicine, Quimby's Drug Store, Laconia, NH. Rectangular bottle, clear glass, blown-in-mold, embossed lettering, "patent" or flat lip which has been molded and tooled. Back rounded, sides and front flat, back edges rounded, front edges bevelled. Bottom with rectangular depression, back edge rounded, front corners bevelled and seam around top edge from cup mold. Seams on front left and back right sides run diagonally across shoulders, fade out on neck. Embossed lettering on front: "4" at top, "QUIMBY'S" in large letters next to: "THE YELLOW FRONT / DRUG STORE / LACONIA, N.H.", in smaller letters. Front left bevelled edge: ounce symbol (resembling a 3) at top, 7 tic marks along side at each half ounce, whole ounces labelled from bottom to top. Front right bevelled edge: 10 tic marks every other one labelled from bottom to top: "20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100", "CC" next to ninth tic mark.
- Material:
- Glass
- Dimensions:
- H-5.75 W-2 D-1.25 inches
- Provenance:
- Collection of bottles that the donor obtained by digging or purchasing either "outright" or at auction.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Robert C. Morey
- People:
- Quimby, George
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