Great day at the dump. First ever whole bitters dug

[gdog68]

Went digging today and found some good ones. Found my first whole bitters bottle" applied lip and makers mark igcol" . 3 blob walter ruapfer, and a Eastman bottle. Anyone know what bottle fragment with the r s co embossed is?

Cool little best ever club badge.

 

[gdog68]

 

[timeandabottle]

I don't know that bottle. But, I do know you found a good spot to dig that has good age and I wish you continued success there!

 

[gdog68]

Thank you, dug it out pretty well but I think there are some more bottles to find just got to go deeper, never know unless you keep digging. The r s co bottle looks like the same shape as a paine's celery but slick on all sides and base.

 

[timeandabottle]

Thank you, dug it out pretty well but I think there are some more bottles to find just got to go deeper, never know unless you keep digging. The r s co bottle looks like the same shape as a paine's celery but slick on all sides and base.

I have a real neat root beer colored bitters (pretty sure anyhow) loaded with bubbles with all the sunken panels, etc, but with no embossing. I like the look so it's stayed on the shelf! Best ones are usually at the bottom so keep a goin'!

 

[hemihampton]

Congrats on yours first Bitters. The RS I'm positive I've seen many times but forgot what it was. Also pretty sure it's from Michigan. Leon.

 

[CanadianBottles]

Great find on those blob tops! I wonder what the Best Ever Club was.

The R.S. Co. was Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup. https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1880s-rheumatic-syrup-jackson-456986588 There's a great pictorial R.S. Co Rheumatic Syrup bottle from upstate New York, but I think yours is the Michigan one like Leon said, which has much plainer embossing. I'm not sure whether they were the same R.S. Co. or not, one might have been a knockoff of the other.

Their advertising sure wasn't plain though, they had no restraint when it came to that!

(That's the weirdest looking Sphinx I've ever seen!)

 

[gdog68]

I always like looking at these ads. It might have been either a knockoff or actually from the company. I usually like to take fragments of bottles I haven't seen before or don't know what they are to try and find out what they are. Thanks for the reply.

 

[Tigrdog1]

That is some beautiful stuff!!!
Rik

 

[DeepSeaDan]

Great finds! Nothing like stellar rewards for hard work.