Posted 8 years ago
SpiritBear
(813 items)
I went back to the antique store and persuaded them to give me a discount due to the problem I had the last time, the chip in the bottle, and my good charm. $3.
Parke, Davis, & Company formed in 1871 Detroit and operated as its own entity till 1970. It is now a subsidiary of Pfizer and had been the World's leading Pharmaceutical company. This is Pareira, N.F. AKA Pareira Brava-- a diuretic herbal medicine. I'd date it to about 1910.
This label, like the last in the link below, is also pictorial.
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/186801-rhubarb-extract-and-alcohol-medicine-mo?in=user
Also like the last one, nothing from their company on this particular product. As they were a massive company, they may have had several hundred made at any one time.
This one does not hold a strong scent permeating the broken-off cork, but I sealed it anyway.
You, charmer, you! :P [;>)))
Canny SpiritBear!
Great bottles.
LOL, Nevada.
Thank you, Racer4Four.
Interesting link to ingredient Chondrodendron Tomentosum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chondrodendron_tomentosum
Very interesting.
It's root is still used as medicine, just as this old book tells us:
https://books.google.com/books?id=YhRKAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA296&lpg=PA296&dq=Pareira+Brava+is+toxic&source=bl&ots=r6Ex7m7xtL&sig=iuBNLFBLmwl2H3RT_Cqg1R2zJ_E&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjtq-rE0OHLAhVEVh4KHa3OATwQ6AEIJzAC#v=onepage&q=Pareira%20Brava%20is%20toxic&f=false
And this new site:
http://abchomeopathy.com/r.php/Pareir
Thanks for the link.
Wow, at $3 that's a steal! Beautiful pair!
Thank you. I decided not to break up the family. LOL. I am quite sure they were found together-- perhaps in a wall or floor-- which is how they ended up at the antique store which also buys out small estates (likely how these were found.)
$8 total I paid to get both, which I think is very fair. I think I'd have paid that for the pictorial Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. bottle alone, due to how close GR is.
I also used the old wax paper still clinging to the H.&P.D.Co. bottle to 'fill in' the holes of its label.