Here is what is believed to be a western blown Injection Ricord. It appears that B. Lefevre was the wholesale agent for this product in at least 1868 and 1869. Does anyone know what evidence exists to prove this is a western blown product other than the look and feel of the glass ? Perhaps the western looking variants were the "spurious article" mentioned in the below ad. How many western variant examples are known ?
Sacramento Daily Union 10/30/1868
Marysville Daily Appeal 10/8/1869
The Times-Picayune from New Orleans 7/28/1868
Thanks to Richard Siri for the above ad
Pretty sure these are Western blown. There's also a version of the same bottle that doesn't appear so. I've seen about a dozen of these like the one pictured over the years, all dug in the West.
ReplyDeleteWE HAVE DUG A DOZEN OF THESE ON THE COMSTOCK, THIS PRODUCT WAS ALSO
ReplyDeleteSOLD BY DR. J.B.B. LEFEVRE OF VIRGINIA CITY. WE ALSO DUG A ROUND ONE
IN COBALT MISSING THE WORD PARIS...
I sold Tom J. a couple of these a few years back. I didn't know much about them and he gave me quite a bit of verbal information on them. After he bought them of course. I found mine in eastern Nevada, 1869 context. I know of a handful of these in other old collections that were dug in eastern Nev. Must have been a popular remedy for those young men visiting the cribs in "Frogtown" as the neighborhood was called in Hamilton 1869. Is B.Lefevre related to or the same Dr. J.B.Lafevre Virginia City?
ReplyDeleteHave an sign for this product but don't know how to add it to the post.
ReplyDeleteFor as many of these that have apparently been found, you sure do not see them available. I have dug one, and only one. It was found in Nevada too. As Lou stated, there are definite differences between the western blown examples and the deep cobalt blue tooled top specimens. Not sure if the dark cobalt's were blown overseas, or on the east coast...they typically etch and stain pretty badly where the lighter blue applied top examples are dug squeaky clean.
ReplyDeleteI have two of them, both dug in San Francisco, one in a privy in Hayes Valley, and the other in a privy South of Market. Western Blown for sure.
ReplyDeleteColor, glass and lip is very reminiscent of the blue Dickey's. Gotta be Western...
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