BLOWN-MOLDED COMMERCIAL MEDICINE BOTTLES, LOT OF TWO, aquamarine, each 12-panel form with short neck, tooled-flange mouth, and rough pontil mark. One with original printed label for Brown's Shaker's Pure Fluid Extract of Eng. Valerian, Prepared in the United Society of Shakers at Enfield, NH, label signed by Brown in ink. Boston and Sandwich Glass Co. and Patrick F. Slane's American Glass Co., South Boston, MA. 1840-1857. 4 1/2" and 4 1/4" H.
Undamaged. Large example with pontil spall, as made. Label with lower right corner torn and glued with no loss.
Published: Barlow/Kaiser - The Glass Industry in Sandwich, Vol. 5, p. 101, fig. 5210 (retains publication label); and Kaiser - The Glass Industry in South Boston, p. 125, fig. 181 (retains publication label).
Provenance: The Joan E. Kaiser Collection of Sandwich and related glass (Acc. #79.3 and #05.21).
Labeled example from Paul Levesque, Hyde Park, VT (carpenter who found bottle when renovating house on Cadys Falls Rd./Depot St., Hyde Park, VT).
Other from Showcase Antiques Center, Sturbridge, MA.
Exhibited: Example without label at the Sandwich Glass Museum - "Pressing Business," 2012.

Undamaged. Large example with pontil spall, as made. Label with lower right corner torn and glued with no loss.