here are some more bottles tell me what you guys think
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Hey jtw,
Nice amber group, sir. I, as always, like to see photos of bottles in natural light. Morning or afternoon sun; backlit, ideally. (hint, hint
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The middle one is a shouldered sealed brandy, or Benedictine. There would have been a wax seal, and/or printed label/ribbon affixed there.
Do I see a Dr. Hostetter's and a Finlay Brewing Co.? Any embossing on the square whiskey or cylinder?
Mo'betta photos, sez I.
Nice amber group, sir. I, as always, like to see photos of bottles in natural light. Morning or afternoon sun; backlit, ideally. (hint, hint
)The middle one is a shouldered sealed brandy, or Benedictine. There would have been a wax seal, and/or printed label/ribbon affixed there.
Do I see a Dr. Hostetter's and a Finlay Brewing Co.? Any embossing on the square whiskey or cylinder?
Mo'betta photos, sez I.
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Yeah I have a Benedictine but the one in my pics is much older and yes that is a finlay brewing and the other is a wf severa stomach bitters no embossing on the others but they are old that finlay has some crude seam on it and by the neck it is all stretched looks cool that square whiskey was 7 feet under ground and I wasn't leaving it lol and next time I will do better pics for ya
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Hey jtw,
Sorry, i presumed that Stomach Bitters to have been a Hostetter's.
"The other very familiar bitters from Iowa was produced by W. F. Severa. Wesley Francis Severa came to Cedar Rapids in 1880, immediately establishing a drug store trade. It wasn't long before he began to prepare and market his own line of proprietary medicines including his
Stomach Bitters.
Similar to the Chamberlain firms, Severa used a flask and a square bottle to market his bitters, the flask being the fifty cent size and the square selling for one dollar. The flasks are amber and are not embossed with the word bitters. Labeled examples of the flask exist that confirm that it was used for bitters. The script embossing on the side panels reads: W. F. Severa / Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
There are three distinct versions of the larger square bottle. All known examples are various shades of amber with the most popular variety being embossed on one side W. F. SEVERA and on the other side STOMACH BITTERS. The other version is embossed W. F. SEVERA/ CEDAR RAPIDS in block letters while the newest example is embossed with the same lettering, only in script style. There are machine made examples of the script embossed bottles in both the flask and square. There are no known examples of Severa’s bottles that are embossed with both the town and the word bitters. Also known is a “label only” example on a crude square bottle that leads to speculation that the early 1880s examples of Severa’s bitters were not embossed." http://www.fohbc.org/PDF_Files/Iowa_Bitters.pdf
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Sorry, i presumed that Stomach Bitters to have been a Hostetter's.
"The other very familiar bitters from Iowa was produced by W. F. Severa. Wesley Francis Severa came to Cedar Rapids in 1880, immediately establishing a drug store trade. It wasn't long before he began to prepare and market his own line of proprietary medicines including his
Stomach Bitters.
Similar to the Chamberlain firms, Severa used a flask and a square bottle to market his bitters, the flask being the fifty cent size and the square selling for one dollar. The flasks are amber and are not embossed with the word bitters. Labeled examples of the flask exist that confirm that it was used for bitters. The script embossing on the side panels reads: W. F. Severa / Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
There are three distinct versions of the larger square bottle. All known examples are various shades of amber with the most popular variety being embossed on one side W. F. SEVERA and on the other side STOMACH BITTERS. The other version is embossed W. F. SEVERA/ CEDAR RAPIDS in block letters while the newest example is embossed with the same lettering, only in script style. There are machine made examples of the script embossed bottles in both the flask and square. There are no known examples of Severa’s bottles that are embossed with both the town and the word bitters. Also known is a “label only” example on a crude square bottle that leads to speculation that the early 1880s examples of Severa’s bitters were not embossed." http://www.fohbc.org/PDF_Files/Iowa_Bitters.pdf
How'd you come upon these guys?
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