Collection Highlights
Castle Garden, New York City
1859
1972.13
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Bitters bottle
Object name
Bitters bottle
Date
1865-1890
Medium
Glass
Dimensions
Overall: 10 1/4 x 3 x 3 in. ( 26 x 7.6 x 7.6 cm )
Description
Deep amber glass bitters bottle (log cabin type) blown in a three-part mold with deep down-tooled collar, three-tiered hipped roof with vertical ribbing and inscriptions "S T DRAKE 1860 PLANTATION X BITTERS" and "PATENTED 1862," square body with broad horizontal ribs, and base with diagonal seam and circular depression.
Credit Line
Gift of Clarence G. Michalis
Object Number
1953.415
Marks
in relief: on obverse (roof): "S T / DRAKE / 1860 / PLANTATION / X / BITTERS"
in relief: on reverse (roof): "PATENTED / 1862"
Gallery Label
In his researches into patented cabin bottle designs, Arthur G. Peterson found that the first such design was patented February 18, 1862, by P. H. Drake of Binghamton, New York (McKearin and Wilson, "American Bottles & Flasks and Their Ancestry," p. 302).
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.