“Dr. Atherton’s Dew Drop Bitters” — Peachridge Glass (Ferdinand Meyer V, Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors), 2011
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- web
- Repository
- peachridgeglass.com
- Access
- Public web page. Cites Ring & Ham, Bitters Bottles Supplement (A 106); New England Farmer, 20 July 1867; a Library of Congress print advertisement c. 1868; the 1865 Lowell directory. Open online
Also gives Atherton’s approximate birth (c. 1840) and death (1915, Pawtucket) — recorded as a lead, C-058.
Statements this record supports
- C-057 — Before his machine-company career Atherton sold a patent medicine, 'Dr. Atherton's Medicated Dew Drop Bitters', from about 1866: a period newspaper advertisement names 'Dr. A. T. Atherton, Chemist, Lowell, Mass.' as proprietor, with Boston agents George C. Goodwin & Co. and M. S. Burr & Co.; the bottle (square, amber/olive, embossed DR ATHERTON'S / DEW DROP / BITTERS / LOWELL MASS, dated 1866) is catalogued by Ring & Ham as A 106 and described as extremely rare. The 1865 Lowell directory lists him as a chemist at 27 Clay Street (per the collectors' account).
- C-058 — Atherton was born about 1840 in Massachusetts and died in 1915 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where the family machine business had moved after 1898.