Cylindrical brown glass bottle, neck only slightly narrower than bottle, with flat, flanged lip, stopped with a cork; paper label on front and on cork; bottle is half full of round pills.
Cylindrical brown glass bottle, neck only slightly narrower than bottle, with flat, flanged lip, stopped with a cork; paper label on front and on cork; bottle is half full of round pills.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Collected by Parke-Davis
Maker
Parke, Davis & Co.
Material
glass: brown
cork: yellow-brown
paper: brown; black
Inscriptions
Top: "PA [illeg.] // M [illeg.] // VERA // WA [illeg.] L, O [illeg.] [printed]"; front: "ONE POUND // [illeg] SSED LOZ [illeg.] // WINTER [illeg.] REEN // PARKE, DAVIS & CO. // [illeg.] TROIT
MICHIGAN
U [illeg.] [printed]"; bottom: "P.D. & CO. // 272 [embossed]"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-A2-1 Row A
Dimension Notes
Length 20.5 cm x Diam. 7.8 cm
Condition Remarks
Bottle is dusty, and dirty, with a yellowish-white accretion on neck and lip (paint?); yellow accretion on bottom (old adhesive?); labels are yellowed, very fragile and flaking off the bottle; 3/4 of the top label is missing, 1/3 of the front label is missing; cork is crumbling at edge.