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| Sometimes overlooked rubbish tip finds |
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| A small group of bottles which are so... abundant in the 1880 to 1890 rubbish tips that often they are left behind as worthless. The whole group would have a total value of perhaps just $4 Australian. I personally feel we've got it wrong if we start making judgements based on monetery value. I bought these types of bottles home to give away to new collectors who had little of their own. |
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| The selection includes clean skin brandy, green glass bath salts, cream bottle, morse's indian root pills, aqua bickford's cough elixir, eno's health salts. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills are extremely abundant in the old tips. W.H. Comstock Co., Ltd., who owned the little bottles had their head office in Morristown; N.Y., USA. They had a factory at 23 Lang Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia, and branches in London, England; Brookville, Canada; and Wellington, New Zealand. | ||||||||||||||||
| The tiny vegetable pills it was claimed: cleans the bowel, helps the liver, and produces blood that is rich and red. They were sold through out America in the early 1800s, then finding markets in Canada, West Indies, South America, Britain, New Zealand. Australia embrassed the little pills around 1880, when a factory was opened in Sydney to manufacture them for the Australasian region. |
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