Items wanted & swaps available.

We are always looking for items to fill gaps in our collections. We will buy items but we both also have quality swaps available.

 

 


Items wanted.


 

1. Impressed or slab sealed stoneware stouts, porters and flasks from Lincolnshire, north Nottinghamshire, or York.

 

2. Unusual and early mineral water bottles. Especially from Lincolnshire, but good examples from anywhere considered. Please contact Darren about these.

 

3. British hinge mould or pontilled patent medicine bottles.

Patent medicines, Daffys Elixir, Balm of Gilead, Siblys Solar Tincture, Stoughtons Elixir, quack medicine, pontiled medicine

Damage is acceptable if priced accordingly! There's quite a lot of detail about this one, which is why it's been left until last.

Especially looking for any embossed or labelled with the words:

Abstergent
'Baume de Vie'
Cure or Curative
Fever or Fevers
Powder
Ague
Bitters
Dentifrice
Jesuit's Drops
Restorative
Alterative
Bituminous
Detergent
Kalydor
Specific
Antibilious
Botanic
Drops
'Kings Evil'
Scurvy
Antidote
'By the Kings Patent'
Elixir
Lithontriptic
Syrup
Antiscorbutic
Carminative
Embrocation
Lotion
Tic
Balm
Cephalick
Essence
Opodeldoc
Tincture
Balsam
Cordial
Female
Pectoral
and many others
 

... or with the following names:

Armstrong (or Harmstrong)
Brodum
Friar (or Fryer)
Ruspini
Spilsbury
Arnold
Butler
Gilbert
Shaw & Edwards
Squire
Atkinson
Daffy
Godfrey
Sibly
Staples
Barclay (or Barclay & Son);
Dicey
Grubb
Slee
Wray
Bateman
Dredge
Jackson
Solomon
Webster
Bostock
Edwards
Reynolds
Sigmond
Wryght

... and many others. If in doubt, please drop Jerry a line.

 

Does anyone have a bottle, early or late, embossed or labelled for 'Godfrey's Cordial' or 'Steer's Opodeldoc', or any boxes, packets or labels for Anderson's Scot's Pills or Hoopers Female Pills, that they will sell or swap?

Darren is particularly looking for variations of Dalby's Carminative bottles, both pontilled and smooth base types.

Jerry even collects badly damaged examples (or even fragments) of interesting early medicine bottles, such as the two late 18th century examples in the photo below:

 

We are also looking for Labels, Pamphlets, Trade cards, Leaflets, Flyers, Tax Stamps, Almanacs and Posters for British patent medicines.

 


Swaps Available:


We have a large number of swaps available. Below are listed some examples. Please contact us to find out more:

 

Items below available as swaps:

 

This section is being updated, and will be online again very soon!

 

 

 

This page last updated on:

1st March 2009

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