✅ SOLVED HOMOEOPATHIC T?????????

[Bigcypresshunter]

HOMOEOPATHIC T ?

I have a 4 inch tall BOERICKE and TAFEL Homoeopathic screwtop medicine with original contents and label but I cant read the word after HOMOEOPATHIC because its ripped off.

The second word starts with a T. Its 41% alcohol. Directions that say to mix 25 drops with a tumblerful of water seem to imply that its to be taken orally (for acute affections). Federal Law prohibits dispensing without a prescription.

Any ideas the second word? Any idea of date or value?

 

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[Bigcypresshunter]

Hey Bigcypress,

I'm voting for "Tincture," as the 2nd word. Are there any numbers or symbols on the base of the bottle?

I believe it would be post 1951, as that was the date of the Durham-Humphrey Amendment to the Pure Food and Drug act of 1906, which specified that "Caution: Federal law prohibits dispensing..." language.

How'd you come upon this little Homeopathic guy?

This Week In FDA History - Oct. 26, 1951​

I found it in the dump. Basically the same place I find all my old stuff.

The bottom appears to be an I on a circle with a 2, 12, 1, and 7.

 

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[surf]

Hey Bigcypress,

It was made by Owens Illinois Glass in 1951 at the Fairmont, WVA plant.

Trademarks & Manufacturers: Owens-Illinois Glass Company​

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Hey, old whiskeys are really hot right now but I dont know where to sell mine as eBay no longer permits whiskey sales and USPS wont ship them.

Here are a few of my old bourbons I am grouping together for sale. . The tincture looks cool amoungst them lol. That Boericke and Tafel Cannabas Tincture would be worth bucks. I saw that in my search but I can find an example like mine..

 

[AU Seeker]

Bigcypresshunter, sorry I did miss where you mentioned Tincture, getting old I guess, I was stuck on the letter being an H.

Man you could throw a hella party with all that booze!!!!

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Bigcypresshunter, sorry I did miss where you mentioned Tincture, getting old I guess, I was stuck on the letter being an H.

Man you could throw a hella party with all that booze!!!!

I have over 100 mini whiskeys for sale.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

It was made by Owens Illinois Glass in 1951 at the Fairmont, WVA plant.

Thats a great link. I need to save it. Could it be 1961? It doesnt have the diamond logo. Trademarks & Manufacturers: Owens-Illinois Glass Company Isnt it Gas City, Indiana 1930-1971? Its a 12, hard to see in my pic.

In 1954, they changed their manufacturer's mark and eliminated the elongated diamond entirely, leaving just the oval and 'I'.

 

[AU Seeker]

Looking for examples of your "drug" online I found some more history of BOERICKE and TAFEL from reading on this site your bottle is at least before 1961, that is when they no longer had the New York, and Chicago stores and they were no longer mentioned in any of their ads, so I assume on the labels as well.

The History of Boericke and Tafel

 

[AU Seeker]

I found a list of BOERICKE and TAFEL remedies from 1925 to 1950, yours is most likely not on here unless it was a longtime remedy of theirs.

List of Remedies from Boericke & Tafel

 

[Minrelica]

Shouldn't it read "acute infections" and not 'affections'?

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I verified from my other site that the I on a circle is a post 1954 mark. GLASS MANUFACTURERS' MARKS ON BOTTLES & OTHER GLASSWARE~~ PAGE TWO

This one is about solved but would still like to see a similar vintage oral prescription bottle thats marked tincture.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Shouldn't it read "acute infections" and not 'affections'?

I dont know lol. I looked again and it says affections

It also says tumblerful.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I found a list of BOERICKE and TAFEL remedies from 1925 to 1950, yours is most likely not on here unless it was a longtime remedy of theirs.

List of Remedies from Boericke & Tafel

Damn just when I thought it was solved. It could be THALLIUM

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

tumblerful is a real word Tumblerful - definition of Tumblerful by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

affection is a bodily condition; disease or malady Affection - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary affections - definition of affections in the Medical dictionary - by the Free Online Medical Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

 

[AU Seeker]

Shouldn't it read "acute infections" and not 'affections'?

I think after drinking some of that "drug" you would have affections for most anything!!!LOL

 

[AU Seeker]

Damn just when I thought it was solved. It could be THALLIUM

Thallium is very toxic and thallium sulfate was used for rat poison and ant killer for many years, it has been banned in USA since 1972 so I don't think this would be a candidate for a drug that is consumed, I feel safe that you can rule out thallium, thallium salts has been used as a treatment for ringworm and other skin infections, but I can't find any internal uses for this metal.

Thallium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

It would be cool to see another bottle. I cant have the only one left from 1954- 1961.

 

[wvwildman]

Hey Bigcypress,

It was made by Owens Illinois Glass in 1951 at the Fairmont, WVA plant.

Trademarks & Manufacturers: Owens-Illinois Glass Company​

thats bout an hour from me

 

[surf]

In 1954, they changed their manufacturer's mark and eliminated the elongated diamond entirely, leaving just the oval and 'I'.

Hey Bigcyptress,

I use David Whitten's site, all the time. He did us all a favor with it. One thing I've learned about old bottles, there always seems to be exceptions to these rules.

Here's a stippled base soda: 7<(I) 59, on his site.

and another:

Sorry, I was reading the plant code as 2, rather than 12. I'm behind on getting new glasses...

Owens Joins with Illinois​

 

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[Bigcypresshunter]

Hey Bigcyptress,

I use David Whitten's site, all the time. He did us all a favor with it. One thing I've learned about old bottles, there always seems to be exceptions to these rules.

Here's a stippled base soda: 7<(I) 59, on his site.

I should have copy and pasted the rest it says.

The diamond was removed from the “old” mark (diamond superimposed over an “I” and an “O” or oval) beginning around 1954, although some bottle molds apparently didn’t have the diamond eliminated (i.e., the mold re-engraved) until as late as 1958. (However, I have a soda bottle in my collection with the “old” mark, dated 1959!) After 1958 the great majority of O-I bottles carried the “new” simplified mark of just an I inside an O.