19th-Century Medicine Bottles

More than a dozen rare and early American medicine bottles sold at a fall Norman Heckler auction, where an olive amber 1840-60 Pike & Osgood Alternative Syrup bottle went for $9,360 and a light to medium yellow Phelp’s Arcanum bottle from the same era brought $7,020 (“arcanum” means “secret” or “mystery”).         Like other “medicine” […]