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Have a very, merry Christmas with poison snow. Fun for the entire family.
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Two poison bottles made from carnival glass, from Laurel714 photostream.
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Poison bottles were often colors other than clear, to differentiate them for real medicine. (from Nic Dempsey’s photostream)
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Brown or amber glass poison bottle from tmac02892’s photostream.
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Cobalt blue coffin front bottle.
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Bottom of same poison bottle, showing mark on bottom for the Maryland Glass Company.
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The label notes that the product was Paregoric Elixir made by E. E. Hall & Co. of Wolverhampton (central England), used to “calm fretful children.”
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Gorgeous set of three skull shaped poison bottles from the American Poison Bottle Collectors Association, collection of Joan Cabaniss.
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A nice collection of poison bottles, from the American Poison Bottle Collectors Association, collection of Joan Cabaniss.
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Eli Lilly amber poison bottles; corked, three-sided, embossed and ribbed.
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Aqua-colored Martin’s poison bottle from England with a curious “U” bend in the shoulder.
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Light blue coffin bottle with skull and crossbones, with “hobnails” and “hinges”.
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Beautiful wood poison cabinet with skull and crossbones.
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Bed bug poison.
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Chloroform label, 19th century.
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Gopher killer, made by Fort Dodge Chemical Company.
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Various vintage poison labels.
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Arsenic-based medicine, Wm. R. Warner & Co., about 1900. National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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Nineteenth century Chinese rat poison.
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