Interesting old bottles with contents. Opinions please.
S. K. Bramlett
I was called to look at a house, it has long been delapidated and I was
asked to come as as rep from the Historical Society and give my opinion on
some things.
Anyway, in the back room (one of only 2 rooms with soild floors, the rest
already caved in) was a cardboard box and several bottles. The owner allowed
me to have two of them for the Historical Society.
The two small corked bottle have something in each. A blue powder that has
solidified and an amber crystalized substance that is glued together in
time. They have a stamp on the bottom and they say " TCW CO 3 USA"
The bottle do have very faint seems. This indicated after 1900, but how
close to or how far past 1900 I cannot be sure.
A little history on the strange house (Bricked between the frame work for
some strange reason and then clap boarded back over, the brick is what I was
called out to evaluate) Likely some sort of an attempt at insulating or
adding strength. It is attached to an industial like building next door. A
Printer used it at one time and before that it was used as a feed store all
by the same family.
Please view the photos and tell me what you think. (Will add a few photos of
the house for the fun of it, but It is the bottles I want your opinion on).
http://www.geocities.com/eastpointhistory/bottles.html
Kris Baker
"S. K. Bramlett" <skbr...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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Chemist's bottles (pharmacy, perhaps). The contents may be
interesting, or very dangerous. If you're really curious, you
need to take the bottles to a chemist and have the contents
analyzed (not cheap).
I'd have shunned those two.
Kris
S. K. Bramlett
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> Chemist's bottles (pharmacy, perhaps). The contents may be
> interesting, or very dangerous. If you're really curious, you
> need to take the bottles to a chemist and have the contents
> analyzed (not cheap).
>
> I'd have shunned those two.
>
> Kris
No on the shun The corks won't be removed and they will go into the
Apothocary cabinet at the Historical Society which is full of old bottles
full of old chemicals and drugs from the early 1900's given by the
pharmacies that used them. It's locked, behind glass and the items are never
handled.
Kris Baker
Do you have an EPA permit to store them?
Kris
Sanity
......and we wonder why museums and historical societies can't afford to
keep their doors open.....? Enviroloonies rejoice!
Kris Baker
"Sanity" <newsgrou...@getalife.ca> wrote in message
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Yeah....and not knowing what's in those bottles, could
be dangerous to anyone who opens them.
Heads up your asses, rejoice!
Go play with some mercury.
Kris
Kris Baker
Oh, by the way. The EPA can refer her for FREE to someone
who can analyze the contents (or even analyze them at no cost).
Little do thy know.
Kris
David Nebenzahl
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>>>>> Chemist's bottles (pharmacy, perhaps). The contents may be
>>>>> interesting, or very dangerous. If you're really curious, you
>>>>> need to take the bottles to a chemist and have the contents
>>>>> analyzed (not cheap).
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd have shunned those two.
>>>>
>>>> No on the shun The corks won't be removed and they will go into the
>>>> Apothocary cabinet at the Historical Society which is full of old
>>>> bottles full of old chemicals and drugs from the early 1900's given by
>>>> the pharmacies that used them. It's locked, behind glass and the items
>>>> are never handled.
>>>
>>> Do you have an EPA permit to store them?
>>
>> ......and we wonder why museums and historical societies can't afford to
>> keep their doors open.....? Enviroloonies rejoice!
>
> Yeah....and not knowing what's in those bottles, could
> be dangerous to anyone who opens them.
>
> Heads up your asses, rejoice!
> Go play with some mercury.
Oh, come on now. And before I go on, I should say that I consider myself
an environmentalist, so I suppose I'd qualify as an "enviroloony" as
postulated by whom you responded to.
But a couple of little bottles in a museum somewhere under glass? Give
me a break; no need to call the hazmat team in their bunny suits. If
followed to its logical conclusion, the EPA might well require that the
bottles and their contents be taken to a Class I hazardous materials
facility; maybe we should put that little museum on the Superfund list?
A little sense of proportion (and yes, common sense) is helpful in cases
like these.
--
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute
conversation with the average voter.
- Attributed to Winston Churchill
Nancy2
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> >>> "Kris Baker" <kris.ba...@prodigy.net> wrote in message
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> >>>> Chemist's bottles (pharmacy, perhaps). The contents may be
> >>>> interesting, or very dangerous. If you're really curious, you
> >>>> need to take the bottles to a chemist and have the contents
> >>>> analyzed (not cheap).
>
> >>>> I'd have shunned those two.
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> >>>> Kris
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> >>> No on the shun The corks won't be removed and they will go into the
> >>> Apothocary cabinet at the Historical Society which is full of old
> >>> bottles full of old chemicals and drugs from the early 1900's given by
> >>> the pharmacies that used them. It's locked, behind glass and the items
> >>> are never handled.
>
> >> Do you have an EPA permit to store them?
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> >> Kris
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> > ......and we wonder why museums and historical societies can't afford to
> > keep their doors open.....? Enviroloonies rejoice!
>
> Oh, by the way. The EPA can refer her for FREE to someone
> who can analyze the contents (or even analyze them at no cost).
>
> Little do thy know.
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> - Show quoted text -
Uh, "does thee know," not "do thy know." >;-)
N.
Sanity
I'll spare you my global warming theories because it would be the
equivalent of pissing on the Pope..hell hath no fury as a women scorned, a
christian questioned as to the reality of their flying spagetti monster AND
debunking global warming activists....do I need an EPA permit to play with
the mercury?
>
Kris Baker
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N.
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You're right. I was thinking "thee"...really. But I have
no control over my fingers.
Kris
It's the chemicals ;)