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Bottle

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Material
PLASTIC; GLASS;
Description
A) Small, square, clear glass bottle with brown plastic screw-top lid; bottom of bottle impressed with '7', and inverted triangle and '82'. B) Brown plastic screw-on lid.
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Category
DISTRIBUTION AND TRANSPORTATION OBJECTS
Sub-Category
CONTAINER
Description
A) Small, square, clear glass bottle with brown plastic screw-top lid; bottom of bottle impressed with '7', and inverted triangle and '82'. B) Brown plastic screw-on lid.
Narrative
BOOK: The Award Guide to Collecting Bottles by Nancy Pratt Berkow, pg. 70 Reference files: BOTTLES
History Of Use
The medicine bottles so eagerly collected today are the results of the all-time great American hoax-the patent medicine fraud. Sellers of patent medicines included vendors, medicine men, and quak doctors. The substances were typically neither patented nor medicinal.
Material
PLASTIC; GLASS;
Height
8
Width
3.5
Units Of Measurement
Centimeters
Number Of Parts
2
Accession No.
1991.7.1 a-b
Type of Record
Museum Artifact

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