No, this isn't some battle of Dick Tracy villains (though Patsy-Ann could very well be drawn by Chester Gould!), it's just a couple more neat old bottles I found while diggin' around the 'ol antique malls. Patsy-Ann Home Drink was an "imitation concentrate orange flavor" made right here in St. Louis MO, and I'm guessing you'd add it to water or whatever to spruce up the juice. It does say "home drink" but maybe you could cook with it too, who knows, there's no label with directions or anything on the other side, so for now it's just the front until I can scrounge up more info. I do like that gold label though with the green nouveau ribbons and grumpy girl mascot. Seibert's Freckle Cream is also an interesting lil find. Made about an hour away across the Mighty Mississippi River in Ashely, ILL (why the extra L?!), this "perfected complexion beautifier" actually contains a nice wraparound label with directions, and features a cute photograph of a young girl instead of an illustration. Found absolutely zilch info for this product on the internet as well... it's all very odd. I'd say both are definitely pre-mid century, maybe as early as the 1920's, or so. Happy early Xmas presents to myself, --and someone please correct me if I'm wrong about anything in this post.
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Those are nice bottles, nice additions to the Karswell Kollection.
I am only guessing here, but the products these bottles once held might have been local products that had limited distribution and a limited customer base. After so may years on the market these items might have been discontinued, due to limited sales and the Great Depression ending so many businesses.
Again, thanks for sharing these finds with us, both the bottles and the labels that survived the decades.
I know the blue tint in the freckle cream is because of the bottle, but I can imagine the original cream being a bright blue flavor and acting like the booze in Street Trash!
I love Patsy Ann but I'd say she's more judgmental than grumpy! Like, "you're going to drink that much orange drink?" kind of way. Yes, yes I am.
>more judgmental than grumpy
Yeah, well sometimes that's the same thing... I see that face daily, fyi
Interesting choice to use a wildly huge halftone dot screen on your freckle remover ad. Removes freckles but induces chickenpox!
I love the bottles. It's neat that the blue one--a color that I do not usually associate with very old glass--has a label that would look just right on an enormous prank cigar.
I agree that the color scheme on the Patsy-Anne label is *chef's kiss.*
>the blue one--a color that I do not usually associate with very old glass
Well, via the internet: "1st century AD Roman artisans discovered a method for creating clear greenish-blue colored glass thanks to advances in furnace technology and chemical formulas."
--so I guess its been around for a little while, anyway haha
Hah! I knew I shouldn't have put the word "very" in there. I just meant turn of the century bottles, which I usually expect to be clear, brown, or green. But obviously perfume bottles came in just any old color, so what do I know?
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