Th bottle embossed "ACEITE/MEXICANO" is described briefly by Fike in "The
Bottle Book: A Comprehensive Guide to Historic Embossed Medicine Bottles"
published in 1987. He reported that the bottle was a product of the Hausman
Drug Co. of Trinidad, CO, about 1910-1920. This suggests that it was a
medicinal oil, perhaps a soothing agent or balm, something like Mexican
Mustang Liniment.
Allen Vegotsky
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From: Trish Fernandez <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, March 08, 2001 6:40 PM
Subject: Mexican bottle
>Does anyone know from where and whence comes a glass bottle with the mark:
>"ACEITE/MEXICANO"?
>
>It was found in the cellar area of a house near a quarz mining area in the
>southern Sierra Nevada foothills in association with a 1903 Mexican centavo
>and two sherds of Mexican Tlaquepaque Polychrome.
>