Description

This amethyst-tinted flask with cork stopper is a sun-colored beauty typical of pre-1920 glass, where manganese dioxide in the formula turned purple with UV exposure over decades. The flat-sided shape and gentle shoulder curve make it a quintessential example of early American patent medicine or whiskey flask design, hailing from Monticello, Illinois based on the embossed text.

Two aqua-tinted Dr. W.B. Caldwell bottles embossed with 'Syrup Pepsin' and 'Monticello, Illinois' are classic patent medicine survivors from the late 1800s to early 1900s. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin was one of the most widely sold laxative tonics of the era, and finding two examples with strong embossing in this aqua glass is a collector's delight.

A grouping of clear and aqua rectangular medicine and whiskey flasks, several embossed with 'Full 1/2 Pint' and federal re-use warnings typical of Prohibition-era and post-Prohibition bonded whiskey bottles. These no-nonsense utilitarian flasks are the workhorses of antique bottle collecting, honest and historically rich.

An aqua blob-top style soda bottle with embossed circular medallion reading 'Thorn & Co. Soda' with city and bottler details -- a classic Hutchinson or early crown-top style soda bottle that predates the modern bottle entirely, showing the gorgeous crude tooled lip and thick glass of the 1880s-1900s.

A Log Cabin Buttered Syrup amber glass bottle marked 'Special Bicentennial Flask' holding 24 fl oz (1 PT 8 OZ), still bearing its original colorful yellow and blue paper label and cork stopper. Released in 1976 to celebrate America's 200th birthday, this Log Cabin collectible flask is a fun mid-century crossover piece beloved by both bottle collectors and Americana enthusiasts.

A small amber medicine flask with white metal cap, embossed 'Full 1/2 Pint' on its face, representing the brown glass pharmaceutical and whiskey tradition meant to protect contents from light degradation. Clean, intact, and showing minimal wear -- a solid example of Depression-era or early post-Prohibition brown glass bottle production.

A lovely aqua-tinted cylindrical early soda or mineral water bottle with a chipped or sheared lip, showing the kind of character only decades of underground slumber can bestow. The embossed circular seal on the body and heavy glass walls speak to late 19th-century production when bottles were made to last lifetimes, not landfills.

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