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Bottle
- 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.
- 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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