W.B.Riker & Son Co. Bottle find.

[EARTHWORKS]

W.B.Riker & Son Co. Bottle find.

Can anybody tell me how old this bottle is. My friend and I found this bottle this weekend on a hill over looking the Hudson river in N.Y.
It reads: W.B. Riker & Son Co., Druggists, New York and Brooklyn.
Thanks for any help.

 

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[Gypsy Heart]

Re: W.B.Riker & Son Co. Bottle find.

September 5, 1900
William B. Riker of 122 West Seventy-fourth Street, the druggist who formerly was in business at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Twenty-second Street, but who has no place of business now, has filed a petition in bankruptcy with liabilities $192,841 and assets $8,790, in debts due him
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E01EEDD163CE433A25756C0A96F9C946197D6CF


NEWARK, N.J., Dec. 23 1896
-- Andrew J. Riker of Maplewood was committed to jail to-day at that place in default of $6,000 bail. He is accused by his brother, William B. Riker, formerly a druggist doing business at Sixth Avenue and Twenty-second Street, New York, but now living in retirement at East Portchester, Conn., with fraudulently retaining possession of an estate aggregating $156,000 conveyed to him in trust by the complainant.

 

[EARTHWORKS]

Re: W.B.Riker & Son Co. Bottle find.

Wow thanks so much gypsy thats very cool.