c1880s Rare MADISON, Indiana HARPER DRUGGIST SQUILL SYRUP Patent Medicine Bottle For Sale

Rare 1880-1890s J.E.C.F. HARPER DRUGGISTs \"SYRUP OF SQUILL\" Labeled Patent Druggist Medicine Bottle with Cork stopper; MADISON, INDIANA Clear to straw color glass with a slight amethyst tint. Approx. 6-1/2in Tall. Half Pint Whiskey flask style bottle. Beautiful glass with some small bubble inclusions. Original Label in superb condition.This item is in very good condition.. The bottle has no cracks or chips but there is some residue and haze inside. see picturesMedicine, Druggist, Pharmacy, Pharmacist, Pediatric Medicine for Child - ChildrenNote: The Quarter shown is for relative size reference and not included.
Please email any questions. Thanks for looking! I will combine shipping costs whenever possible.. I have other bottles listed with most on sale ending around the same time. Please take a look at ( item#:126427905716) A very nice SCARCE c1850 DALLASBURGH,KY open pontil J.B. WHEATLEY’S COMPOUND SYRUP BottleHistory:Druggist Fred Harper moved to Madison around 1853 and went into business with his older brother J.E.C.F. Harper at Harper & Bro., where Fred Harper was a druggist. Fred Harper moved to Madison from Louisville.The 1860 city directory shows the brothers’ store was located on the north side of Main Cross Street, now named Main Street. It was between Mulberry and Main, which now is named Jefferson Street. Property records show that in 1863 they bought a building at the northwest corner of the streets now known as Main and Jefferson streets.Fred Harper and his family lived a few blocks from the various locations of the stores where he worked. Ruesink found city directory listings for the family on Second Street between East and Walnut streets in 1860, on the east side of Walnut south of Third Street in 1879 and at 614 Second St. in 1900. Three years after the Harper brothers bought the building for their store, Fred Harper retired at the age of 41. Ruesink found a Madison Courier notice saying that the Harper & Bro. partnership was dissolved, with Fred retiring and J.E.C.F. continuing with another store, G.W. Weyer.“However, Fred did not stay retired, as the 1867 city directory lists him as proprietor of City Drug Store at 45 E. Main Cross,” Ruesink wrote in his research report. He wonders if that address was the address where the brothers formerly had their store. The 1875 directory lists him as druggist at 45 E. Main Cross, but doesn’t list a store name.Fred Harper had married a Charlestown native named Emily in April 1849 in Louisville; Ruesink thinks her last name was Garner, but cannot verify it.Fred Harper died July 3, 1903, and is buried at Springdale Cemetery, as is his wife, who died in 1912.