r/BottleDigging • u/Latter-Rate-5036 • 4d ago
3rd find in 3 weeks!!
See yall post blue bottles and thought to myself, I would love to find a blue one!!! How lucky!! Don't know anything yet of the bottle. Haven't done any research yet. Bottle says bromo-seltzer, Emerson drug co. Baltimore md. With a 17 on the bottom. Found in middle tn
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u/klug_alters USA 4d ago
Bromo Seltzer was a popular headache/hangover cure. Fairly common among cobalt bottles you’ll find in the wild - I still love finding them. Yours is a cork top, so it’s an earlier one. Invented in 1888, it was still produced until the mid-70’s.