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DR MORSE’S INVIGORATING ELIXIR AND CORDIAL – NEW YORK PONTILED MEDICINE

antique elixer New York bottle


Description:  Prepared by M. Morse M.D. New York City (1852); C.H. Ring, general agent (1855), 192 Broadway, NYC, NY. Advertised 1852-1857. It is put up, highly concentrated in pint bottles, with the name blown in the glass. Hundreds, thousands who deemed themselves tottering on the dread verge of eternity, have been snatched back to life by the aid of the Elixir. $3 or two for $5, Sept. 15, 1853 NYT; R.W. Robinson & Sons, 186 Greenwich, NYC. (Courtesy Digger Odell’s Pontiled Medicines). This good size medicine has much character, crude glass with large pontil scar and loaded with hundreds of seed bubbles. Oval, tapered collar, strongly embossed. American, C. 1850, scarce.

Embossed: Dr. Morse’s Invigorating Cordial // C.H. Ring Proprietor. NY.
 
Height: 7 3/8th”

Color: Aqua

Condition: Very good condition. There is 0.75 annealing line (in manufacture) on the backside of the tapered collar (see photo).
 
Price: SOLD

Item No. 236


antique elixer New York bottle

antique elixer New York bottle

antique elixer New York bottle