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| Embossing on Dr. J.J. McBride's King of Pain |
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| WOW! 45,00 bottles - Where are they all hiding? |
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| World's Relief with curved "R's" I can't seem to find any advertisements for Ol' Doc McBride's "Relief" anyone have anything on this product? |
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Dr. J.J. McBride's King of Pain (left) and World's Relief (right) |
Embossing on the "fire aqua" King of Pain with straight leg "R's"
The "King of Pain" could cure anything lickety-split!
Both the King of Pain and the World's Relief have applied tops
Just getting warmed up for the 49er Show this December in Roseville....... We are planning one heck of a display of western medicines - rs -
1875 ad for World's Relief
Rick,
ReplyDeleteAds appear in both S.F. and Sacramento papers during a short time frame in the year 1875 for McBride' s World's Relief product.
What great names for a medicine! I have seen the King of Pain in beautiful light to dark green and everything in between. The product must have been fairly popular. As for the World's relief, I have never seen one in color. They must have made much fewer batches as they seem to only come in a lighter blue aqua.Maybe just quality control as to glass color. I dug one a couple of years ago which is very heavily whittled but still the same lighter color. Dale M.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I believe that the King of Pain is the earlier bottle or at least began 3 or 4 years prior to the World's Relief. They were both sold through the mid 1870s though.DM
ReplyDeleteThe marketing of McBride' s King of Pain product starts in 1869 and runs through 1875. Dr. McBride died of consumption in early 1879.
ReplyDeleteGuess he should have created a consumption cure?
ReplyDeleteIt's my theory that the King of Pain bottles were still sold and distributed into the early & mid 1880's,after McBride's demise, by Crane and Brigham. I have dug many of these, in pits post 1880
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Also, the later King of Pain examples seem to have the smaller banded collar top, like the later Dickey's. The earlier King of Pains have the thinner wide flared top
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That's good info Tom,
ReplyDeleteGuess I did not know the KOP was sold that late. Do the later examples have the blocky square collar top like the World's Relief? Seems like the KOP was sold for over 10 years? I know the Pratt's Abolition Oil, and Dr. Murray's Magic Oil were as well. I have dug tooled Pratt's in late 60s pits, and applied Pratt's in 80s holes. The Murray's come applied and tooled in amethyst glass from the mid to later 80s. I have an applied Murray's dug in a late 60s early 70s hole in Nevada next to one of the Giant Langley's Sarsaparilla's. Dale M.
the langleys sarsaparilla I dug that was light cornflower blue was in a new well that had a cobalt largest size owl three sided drug bottle in it.
ReplyDeleteYes Dale, the newer KOP's, like the newer Abolitions amd Dickeys, have the blocky square top (what I earlier called the "banded top"). Even though the wide flared-top Abolitions and Dickey's are tooled, they are the earliest varients. Many 60s and 70's eastern meds have the flared tooled top as well. Perhaps a different lipping process was used to form the wide tooled flare tops ?? I think there is approx a 15 yr run on each of the 3 above mentioned meds (blues only on the Dickey)
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