Great day at the dump. First ever whole bitters dug

[BottleDiver94]

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.

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So what was this for? Is it a medicine cup? Shot glass?

 

[Sitcoms]

Very nice! I found one of those blue medicine cup type objects this past week as well - from what I've found it was an early way to take the correct dosage.

 

[gdog68]

Yeh I believe it is measurement shot for the cobalt john wyeth bottle. Couldn't find the bottle in the dump. Just this shot cup

 

[Tom Byrne]

The cobalt blue item is a "dose cap" that came on a Wyeth Drug Co bottle.

 

[THE BEAR]

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

Kinda has that Washington look to it.