ASSORTED PATENT MEDICINE AND APOTHECARY BOTTLES, LOT OF 18, various shades of aqua, including a mix of small cylinder vials and puffs, 10- and 12-sided medicines, and a long-necked blank oval medicine, three embossed examples comprising a Mrs. Kidder's Dysentery Cordial, a large-size Mexican Mustang Liniment, and a small rectangular Davis' Vegetable Pain Killer with a mostly intact paper label at rear and remnants of another, each bottle with outwardly-flared or applied mouth and blowpipe pontil scar to base, except for Mustang Liniment having an iron pontil scar. Various makers, likely mostly East Coast glasshouses. Early to mid 19th century. 9" HOA.

Collection of the late Al and Billy Steidel, Alexandria, VA.

Most very good to excellent condition, Kidder's and Davis' both undamaged; Mustang excellent with one flat chip to lip; most blank meds in good to excellent condition with perhaps occasional light chipping, many with heavy ground wear and excessive sickness/mineral stain.