Bottle, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Bottle, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1996.036.055
- Date:
- 1906-1928
- Description:
- Bottle, medicine bottle, L. O. Shurtleff, Pharmacist, Whitefield, NH. Rectangular bottle, pale green aqua glass, blown-in-mold, embossed lettering, "patent" or flat lip, molded and tooled. All sides flat with bevelled edges, sharply defined, stepped shoulders. Three small raised dots along back left and front right bevelled edges. Seam around bottom edge, rectangular depression in bottom with bevelled edges. Seams on front left and back right sides run diagonally across shoulders, fade out on neck. Embossed lettering on front: "L. O. SHURTLEFF / PHARMACIST / CORNER DRUG STORE / WHITEFIELD, N. H." Embossed lettering on bottom: "PARIS" across center and "RIS" at an angle in one corner.
- Material:
- Glass
- Dimensions:
- H-6.5 W-2.5 D-1.875 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:
- Shurtleff, Lyman
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