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DR D. JAYNES TONIC VERMIFUGE – PHILADELPHIA – SUPERB “Pontiled” EXAMPLE!

Antique pontiled tonic bottle

Description: This is mint example of an early embossed pontiled Tonic (c.1840). Tonic has been defined as “an agent which augments and gradually and permanently the strength and vital activity of the body or its parts”.
Few patent medicine companies were as successful and long-lived as the line of Dr. Jayne’s Family Medicines. Dr. David Jayne is credited with being one of the first manufacturers to use the almanac as a promotional device. Between 1843, the year he printed his first almanac, and 1930, the Jayne Company distributed over 500 million almanacs.Jayne used intricate and well-crafted graphics to promote his products to potential customers, at least some of whom were illiterate. Jayne’s ads, with their finely engraved images, left a more vivid mark on the memory of the casual observer than a dozen pages of print. He spared no expense and commissioned detailed engravings on copper plate, partly to appeal to his customers’ sense of aesthetics, and partly to prevent counterfeiting. (Courtesy Hagley Museum and Library) American C. 1840

Embossed: DR D. JAYNE’S //TONIC // VERMIFUGE // PHILADA

Height: 4 7/8”

Color:  Aqua

Condition: Excellent. Outstanding crude glass quality. Strongly embossed, open pontil. Very rare to find the delicate flared lips on these early pontiled medicines in such fine condition!

Price: SOLD

Item No: 172

Antique pontiled tonic bottle
Antique pontiled tonic bottle
Antique pontiled tonic bottle
Antique pontiled tonic bottle

Antique pontiled tonic bottle