Bottle, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Bottle, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1996.036.032
- Creator:
- Whitall, Tatum Company
- Place of Origin:
- Millville, NJ
- Date:
- 1907-1911
- Description:
- Bottle, medicine, Perley McNeill, Lebanon, NH. Rectangular bottle, clear glass, blown-in-mold, embossed lettering, "prescription" or flared lip which has been molded and tooled. Back rounded, sides and front flat, rounded edges, sloping shoulders, air bubbles. Bottom with rectangular depression, back edge rounded, seam around top edge from cup mold. Seams on sides run across shoulders, fade out on neck. Decorative seams closer to front edge run up sides and across shoulders in a semicircle, also decorative seams topped by semicircle on front. Embossed lettering on front: ounce symbol (resembling a 3) followed by "ii", another semicircular seam with "PERLEY MCNEILL / PHARMACIST / LEBANON, N.H." underneath. On bottom: "W.T. CO. / J / U.S.A."
- Material:
- Glass
- Dimensions:
- H-4.5 W-1.625 D-1.125 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:
- McNeill, Charles
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