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DR D. JAYNES LINIMENT OR COUNTER IRRITANT – PHILADELPHIA – PONTILED - Minty

patten medicine pontil antique bottle

Description: This is mint example of an early embossed pontiled Liniment (c.1858).
Dr. David Jayne, listed in Salem, N.J. (1836), listed at No 28 S. 3rd St. Phila. (1838 – 1847) various addresses. Aqua, rectangular, rolled lip, tubular pontil, American C. 1850.
Few patent medicine companies were as successful and long-lived as the line of Dr. Jayne’s Family Medicines. Dr. David Jayne is credited with being one of the first manufacturers to use the almanac as a promotional device. Between 1843, the year he printed his first almanac, and 1930, the Jayne Company distributed over 500 million almanacs. Jayne used intricate and well-crafted graphics to promote his products to potential customers, at least some of whom were illiterate. Jayne’s ads, with their finely engraved images, left a more vivid mark on the memory of the casual observer than a dozen pages of print. He spared no expense and commissioned detailed engravings on copper plate, partly to appeal to his customers’ sense of aesthetics, and partly to prevent counterfeiting. (Courtesy Hagley Museum and Library).

Embossed: DR D. JAYNE’S / LINIMENT OR // COUNTER IRRITANT / PHILADA

Height: 5 3/8”

Color:  Aqua

Condition: Excellent. Nice crude glass quality. Good embossing, hard to show in photos.

Price: SOLD

Item No. 306

   patten medicine pontil antique bottle

patten medicine pontil antique bottle