Circa Label Poduct Name Label Information Notes History
1881 Embossed Dr. Kilmers Swamp Root       A Philadelphia Patent Medicine   
1850 Embossed Moses Atwood Jaundice Bitters    A Georgetown, Mass. Bitters Very popular for over seventy uears.
1870 Embossed Allen's Sarsaparilla              Patent Medicine/Soft Drink         
1880 Embossed Lydia Pinkhams Vegetable Compound   A Mass. Patent Medicine 
1840 Embossed Old Dr. J Townsends Sarsaparilla New York Octagonal, Blue, Pontiled,
1860 Embossed Hoods Sarsaparilla, Lowell, Mass. Pontiled Aqua
1840 Embossed Dr., Travis's Herb Biters Guaranteed To Cure Consumption, Dysentery, Ankylosis Water Of Life Pontiled, Bitters misspelled, Small Aqua, Cone shaped bottle –
1870 Embossed Dr. Langley's Root & Herb Bitters 99 Union St. Boston. Aqua, Medicine style bottle,
1880 Embossed Glyco Heroin  bottom embossed Martin Smith Chemists New York Brown 7.5 inches high corked Medicine Bottle   The combination of heroin with alcohol and sugar made a potent beverage.
1900 Paper Label Dr. Stinsons Asthma Remedy  H. P. K. Peck & Co., 198 Fulton St. N.Y. Brown Triangular 9.9 inches high Corked         
1849 Embossed Brant's Indian Pulmonary Balsam M. T. Walace Proprietor Aqua Pontiled 6.9 inches high Octagonal blob top bottle. A Brooklyn, New York Patent Medicine Company
1880 Embossed Moxie Nerve Food 10 inches high green tint blob top cork bottle Moxie was a patent medicine beverage on its way to becoming a soft drink. It became a soft drink about 1890. Consolidated Bottling Company of Lima bottled Moxie the soft drink until the late 1930 period. Two of these bottles are exhibits P16 and P17 of the Pepsi  Cola Collection. Forty years later Karl W. Koch again bottled Moxie at Consolidated Bottling Company of Lima, Ohio using a paper labeled 16 oz. non returnable bottle about 1970. It sold well until  customers tried to drink the product.
1880 Embossed Burnett's Cocoaine, Boston Aqua 6 Inches high eight surfaces corked Medicine Bottle This cocaine ( spelled here Cocoaine ) drink probably also contained sugar and alcohol. The addition of Cola Nut and carbonated water came later.
1906 Paper Label Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup This bottle contains 5% alcohol, one tenth of a grain morphine sulphate ....oil of anise seed, caraway, coriander, jalap, senna, sugar.....The Anglo American Drug Company, Proprietors, 215 217 Fulton St., New York City Guaranteed under the food and drug act...June 30th, 1906...for a child under one month old, six to ten drops.....for dysentery repeat the above dose until character of the discharge is changed 4.9 inches high filled corked medicine bottle The label is also written in German.
1880 Embossed Log Cabin Sarsaparilla Rochester, N.Y. bottom embossed Pat. Sept 6 87  Wired Cork brown Blob Top bottle         Patent Medicine/Soft Drink       
1864 Embossed Expectoral Wild Cherry Tonic Roher’s Lancaster Pa. Cork Closure    Iron Pontiled                 This is an example of a decorative Civil War era Medicine/Beverage bottle .Wild Cherry is a component of today’s Pepper type drinks.
1880 Embossed Tonique San Antonio Tonic 3 in. square 11 inch high brown cork closure
1880 Embossed Paine’s Celery Compound 2.5 inch square 10 inch high brown cork closure
1880 Embossed Kola Cardinette KC in diamond Brown Very early use of Kola in patent medicine
1880 Embossed Himalya Kola Compound Square Brown Very early use of Kola in patent medicine
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
   
   

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