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Product medicine dose measuring glass advertising GUN WA'S CHINESE HERB AND VEGITABLE REMEDIES from Denver, CO

FOR THE "PRODUCT PEOPLE" OUT THERE...

PRODUCT GLASSES are those dose glasses that advertise specific products which were offered or sold to customers. Product glasses are of particular interest to many bottle diggers and hunters who seek them to compliment their collections of Bitters, Cures, Remedies, Patent/Proprietary Medicines, etc. Collecting product glasses is one way to specialize or focus a dose glass collection. As you will note, the line between product glasses and druggist glasses is sometimes blurred, as in the example of USE / ATWOOD'S / SARSAPARILLA / F.C. ATWOOD / WINTERPORT, ME. This also goes to show that in collecting dose glasses, there is considerable crossover between different areas of interest. With product glasses, one often has to do extensive research to link a product to a particular druggist, manufacturer or region of the country (city, state, etc). 

SOME EXAMPLES OF PRODUCT GLASSES...
  • Pura Blood / Hot Springs Arkansas / Blood Purifier / Trademark Registered / (extra large glass)

 

  • Perkins National Herbs / (monogram P in circle) / The National Herbs Co. / Washington / DC (large)

 

  • The / Dr. Perkins / Medical Co / Washington / D C (large)

 

  • DR. B.F. ULMER'S / LIVER / CORRECTOR / SAVANNAH, GA. (see Bill's newsletter article)

 

  • Try Riepe's / Maple / Cough Cure / Can't Be Beat (Aldelbert Riepe, Davenport, IA)

 

  • Dr. Petzold's / German / Bitters

 

  • Sparks Perfect Health / For / Kidney / And Liver / Diseases (Camden, NJ)

 

  • Use / Burnhams / Beef / Wine & Iron (small, from E.S. Burnham Co., New York, NY)

 

  • Dr. Grams / Medicine / Grandmothers (large, from New York, NY)

 

  • For Health / Use / Root-Tea-Na (large, Akron, OH)

 

  • Dr. Burkhart's / Vegetable / pic portrait / Compound / 224 Main St. (large)

 

  • Ask Druggists / For Bassetts / Native Herbs / Guaranteed / Cure in three … (large)

 

  • Herrick's Dentalra / A Superior / Tooth Powder (large)

 

  • Our Native Herbs / The Alonzoo Bliss Co / Washington / Kansas City / …

 

  • The Headache / "Cephaline" / Remedy (small)

 

  • Uncle Sams / Herbs (glass shaped like a druggist's graduate)

 

  • Gun Wa's / Chinese / Herb / and / Vegetable / Remedies (Denver, CO)

 

  • LINK'S / SARSAPARILLA / AND / DANDELION / PARIS, ILL. (small)

 

  • THE PROGRESS / MEDICINE CO. / DR.J.J.KERRS / REMEDIES / FT WAYNE, IND. (large)

 

  • MAGILL'S CHILL CURE / LOUISVILLE, KY. (non slug plate, embossed inside)

 

  • JAMAICA GINGER / CORDIAL / C.D. DOWS & CO. / BOSTON (bottle dose cap)

 

  • MORRISONS / LOWELL / MASS. / PEPSIN BITTERS (large)

 

  • THE GREAT / AMERICAN Herb Company / Washington D.C. USA / Proprietors of / "Indian Herbs" (large)

 

  • USE / ATWOOD'S / SARSAPARILLA / F.C. ATWOOD / WINTERPORT, ME. (small)

 

  • O.W. WIGGIN'S / BEEF WINE & IRON / 213 LISBON ST. / LEWISTON, ME. (small)

 

  • DR. TURNER'S / SHAKER MEDICINES (large, St. Louis, MO)

 

  • B.E. REEVES / TREATS / DISEASES / OF STOCK / LINCOLN, NEB.

 

  • GARTEN / COLD CURE / LINCOLN, NEB. (large)

 

  • WETHERELL'S / FOR / THE / BLOOD / SARSAPARILLA (small, Exeter, NH)

 

  • CASTMEYER / MIOWN / PULMONIC SYRUP / DRUGGIST / BROOKLYN (small)

 

  • MAN'S IDEAL TONIC / F.P. HOWLAND M.D. / CORTLAND, NY (large)

 

  • MONELL'S / COMPOUND / STILLINGIA / BLOOD PURIFIER / 2 FIRST AVE. / NEW YORK (small)

 

  • SOUTH AMERICAN / COMPOUND / JACKSON MFG. Co. / COLUMBUS, O. (large)

 

  • READE'S / CALIFORNIA / GOLD PAINT / 20c A BOX / 638 WASHINGTON AVE / PHILA. (small)

 

  • LIQUID SALITO QUININE / BASS & BRO. / TERRELL, TEX

 

  • (front) OKO CORDIAL / IS VERY REFRESHING (back) DRINK OKO / IT ENRICHES THE BLOOD (4 inch cordial type stemmed glass)

 

  • BREITENBACH'S / MEASURE / FOR / 91895 / COUGH MIXTURE (small)

 

  • DR JOBS SOLIDAGO / FOR / THE BLOOD (small)

 

  • DR. FOX'S / SARSAPARILLA / FOR THE BLOOD (2.5 inch tumbler with footed base)

 

  • DR. GREEN'S / BLOOD PURIFIER / AND NERVE TONIC (bottle dose cap)

 

  • DR. HARTER'S (cordial type stemmed glass, eight sided with embossed crescent moon & bottle)

 

  • ENJOY LIFE / BISMARCK / BITTERS / ONCE A DAY

 

  • FOWLER'S / HERBALIS / COMPOUND (small)

 

  • HELM'S PECTORAL BALSAM / CURES / COUGHS & COLDS (small)

 

  • SMITH BROS. / TRADE / S.B. / MARK / CATARRH CURE (the S.B. of cough drop fame)

 

  • SODIPHENE / ALKALINE GERMICIDE (no slug plate, newer glass)

 

  • SPENCER'S / INDIAN / TEA

 

  • TRY RHYMES / (small picture of lungs or leaves?) / COUGH / BALSAM (small)

 

  • USE DOLLAMS / GREAT GERMAN MEDICINE

 

  • VALENTINE'S / MEAT-JUICE / WILL NOURISH / WHEN / OTHER FOODS FAIL (no slug plate)

 

  • WATERBURY'S / METABOLIZED / TASTELESS / COD LIVER OIL COMP (small)

 

  • WATERBURY'S / NEW YORK / DES MOINES / TORONTO / NEW ORLEANS / COD LIVER OIL COMP (small, more common)

 

  • WORLDS / DISPENSARY / MEDICAL / ASSOCIATION (small, Dr. Pierce)

 

  • SMITH'S / GREEN / MOUNTAIN / RENOVATOR (small, St. Albans, VT)

 

 

PRODUCT GLASS PICTURE GALLERY...
Squires' Bittters

Squires' Bittters

Bismarck Bitters

Bismarck Bitters

Sparks Perfect Health

Sparks Perfect Health

Elixir of Life

Elixir of Life

Mersons Wonder Cure (AUS)

Mersons Wonder Cure (AUS)

Cohen's For Coughs & Colds

Cohen's For Coughs & Colds

Garten's Cold Cure

Garten's Cold Cure

Woodward's Sarsaparilla

Woodward's Sarsaparilla

Hood's Sarsaparilla

Hood's Sarsaparilla

Fenner's Sarsaparilla

Fenner's Sarsaparilla

Miller's Bilious Bullets

Miller's Bilious Bullets

Dr. Jobs Solidago

Dr. Jobs Solidago

Stanley's Pine Balm

Stanley's Pine Balm

Smith Bros' Catarrh Cure

Smith Bros' Catarrh Cure

Wadley's Sarsaparilla

Wadley's Sarsaparilla

Rhymes Cough Balsam

Rhymes Cough Balsam

Waterbury's Cod Liver Comp.

Waterbury's Cod Liver Comp.

Dr. Grams Grandmothers Medicine

Dr. Grams Grandmothers Medicine

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