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| Dr. Pierce's Prescription Bottle. |
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| Dr Pierce Bottle Labeled Buffalo, N. Y. |
I'll be adding to my bottle barn whenever I find the time. You'll find a link to it at the top left of this blog.
I found the following on the ehive.com site linked below.
A quack patent medicine of the late 1800s and early 1900s. The product was widely promoted to treat "women's conditions". For example the following is from Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Advisor.On p. 342, the following is noted: “Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is an efficient remedy in cases requiring a medicine to regulate the menstrual function. Full directions accompany every bottle.” Further on p. 346: “Dr. Pierce's Favorite prescription. This is a tonic nervine of unsurpassed efficacy, combined in such a manner, that, while it quiets nervous irritation, it strengthens the enfeebled nervous system, restoring it to healthful vigor. In all diseases involving the female reproductive organs, with which there is usually associated an irritable condition of the nervous system, it is unsurpassed as a remedy. It is also a uterine and general tonic of great excellence. It is sold by all druggists.” Source: RV Pierce The People’s Common Sense Medical Advisor, 1895; Buffalo NY: WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
https://ehive.com/collections/4339/objects/348955/dr-pierces-favorite-prescription-bottle
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A letter written by a passenger of the Titanic sold for $165,776.
The Titanic was carrying 2,223 passengers when it sank in the icy waters of the Atlantic on April 12, 1912. A total of 1,517 men, women and children – mostly third-class passengers and crew – died in the tragedy, which has been detailed in countless books and movies for almost all of the 106 years since the tragedy. Titanic collectibles have been particularly hot since the wreck was discovered by Robert Ballard, then working at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, in 1985. In late 2017, the tragedy was humanized by the sale of a letter written by Alexander Oskar Holverson, a first-class passenger, one day before the ship sank. The letter sold for $165,776 in England by Henry Aldridge & Son, an auction house that specializes in Titanic memorabilia. That is a record price for correspondence from the ill-fated ocean liner...
https://www.kovels.com/latest-news/letter-from-titanic-passenger-makes-record-price.html
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Archaeologists have fought for decades over how and when people first arrived in the Americas. Did they walk down a corridor between the great glaciers of western Canada about 13,500 years ago? Or did they travel by boat even earlier? New research supports an early sea arrival, by way of the Pacific coast. By dating rocks and animal bones, scientists conclude that the coast of southeastern Alaska was largely ice-free and full of plant and animal life some 17,000 years ago—a welcoming environment for people venturing south into a new world.''...
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/new-map-alaska-s-ancient-coast-supports-theory-america-s-first-people-arrived-boat
Global warming I guess!
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"Collecting as a whole is threatened," said Mr. Rinker, head of the Institute for Antiques and Collectibles. "Young people are not collecting the way old people did."
One big difference: Not so long ago, it wasn't uncommon to find someone with a collection of, say, 500 lunchboxes or 1,000 Barbie dolls. No more. "To find anyone with a collection of 50 of anything is difficult," Mr. Rinker said. "They find something they like, buy one or two more, then they quit."
Another difference: There's not much joy in the chase. Hard-core collectors like to go to yard sales, antique stores and shows, hoping to find a genuine Chippendale armoire in someone's basement. These days, however, all you really need to do is head for the internet. "Anything you want, you can find pretty quickly on eBay or Etsy," Mr. Rinker said. "Everyone is dumping everything there."...
http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20170922/FREE/170929969/collectibles-market-not-what-it-used-to-be
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We'll have a very calm surf on the Treasure Coast this week. Enjoy it.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
