Last year I had a collector contact me asking me about some
RI bottles he had bought in a display case full of odds and ends. They turned out to be some rather nice RI
pharmacy bottles. It took me a while to finally organize a meeting, but it finally worked out last month. He had already sold one, but I was
able to get the remaining three, two of which were unlisted. An A.O.
Austin Pharmacist Providence is hard not to like. This example has a different address and is a
different size than the listed examples.
I was particularly happy to acquire a Farnham & Cundall Pharmacists E.
Greenwich, RI. This is probably the earliest pharmacy bottle
from East Greenwich, and while one is listed
as rectangular, this one is square.
I still have a few gaps to fill in on my E.P. Anthony Inc. Pharmacists, Providence RI
run. This 3-3/8” tall example was an
unlisted size.
January is a bad digging month, but it is also host to the
Little Rhody Bottle Club’s annual show.
I didn’t make any earth-shattering discoveries, but I was happy with
what I got. An Otis Clapp & Son with two
lions on the front was a nice one to check off the list. This uncommon example even had the original
label with an illegible handwritten prescription.
Another medicine I acquired was a Thomas M. Dorney Pharmacist Providence, RI. It’s a nice pharmacy bottle that is simply
packed with embossing. At 4” it was an
unlisted size.
