My Berkshire Stone Ginger Beer Collection

Other Shaped Poison Bottles

 

So far I have only collected one 2oz other shaped poison bottle:

click on images below to enlarge (you can then zoom in further using the wheel on your mouse):

I am unsure how many other shaped poison bottles there are in total but I am guessing quite a few which will obviously come in different colours and have different closures to them.

 

The other shaped 2oz glass ones that I have collected so far are as below:

 

Pictures in row 1.

 

 1)  Shape:  Triangular front with the point cut off and round back

      Variation:  Amber, wide-mouth, ground glass stopper, no embossed words

      On Front:  just ribbing

      On Shoulder:  blank

      On Bottom:  F. D. & Co. / 2

 

Pictures in row 2.

 

1)  Shape:  Octagonal, with a ridge into a round shaped shoulder

      Variation:  Green, standard lip, ground glass stopper

      On Front:  Lysoform (in fancy writing)

      On Shoulder:  blank

      On Bottom:  2032

 

Pictures in row 3.

 

1)  Shape:  Six sided diamond shape

     Variation:  Cobalt blue cork stopper (this is an American Poison)

     On Front 3 sides:  Horizontal ribs with 'POISON' embossed on two outer sides

     On Back:  blank

     On Shoulder:  blank

     On Bottom:  2 / C. L. C. Co. / PATENT APPLIED FOR

Pictures in row 4.

 

 1)  Shape:  Tapered oval bottle with rolled lip, probably only a 1oz in truth

      Variation:  Aqua, cork closure

      On Front:  "INSECTICIDE" (picture of a flea) "VICAT, BREVETE, S.G.D.G"

      On Shoulder:  blank

      On Bottom:  blank

 

"VICAT" was Joseph Henri Vicat (1821-1901) and "Breveté Sans Garantie Du Gouvernement“ just meant "patent without government guarantees" in French.  Vicat created this insecticide in a "war" against bed bugs.

 

Berkshire Ginger Beer Bottles 0