Plumbata
Well-Known Member
I agree with nppharm, nice to see a old time member still in here, I thought I was about the only one left, seems everybody left for fakebook or elsewhere? The Citrates & baby Bottle nice finds. I find the common Citrates, nothing that old or good when it comes to citrates & never found a baby Nurser but do have one from Detroit, my digging area. Welcome back. LEON.
In the thousands upon thousands of bottles you've dug you haven't found any Detroit citrates? Did the druggists of Detroit not have many made? For whatever reason I've had good luck with nursers, there were several different wholesale medicine and supply companies in Peoria which sold their own branded nursers so besides less interesting BIM nursers from elsewhere I had already dug one of those Crescent Nursers in good shape before. The best Peoria nurser would be this "Sutliff & Case" that was unlisted and unknown to the oletimers before I hit a dump near the neighborhood the pharmacy served and found 2 broken bottom halves and one with a crack in the base but otherwise intact and attractive. Sutliff & Case started around 1881 and eventually had at least 6 retail drug stores and a wholesale medicine manufacturing division, but besides the nurser no one has ever seen any embossed bottles from the company. They even had a variety of stenciled jugs made back in the day so why not bottles? There are different ACL medicine bottles from the 40s-50s they made which are pretty cool but I'd rather find a citrate from them if such a treasure exists. Anyway thanks for the welcome bud it's good to be back!