Skip to main content
Advanced Search
Image Not Available for Bottle: Plantation Bitters, cabin shaped
Bottle: Plantation Bitters, cabin shaped
Image Not Available for Bottle: Plantation Bitters, cabin shaped

Bottle: Plantation Bitters, cabin shaped

1865-1890
Place madeUnited States, North America
Glass
Overall: 10 1/4 x 3 x 3 in. ( 26 x 7.6 x 7.6 cm )
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
1937.1047
In his researches into patented cabin bottle designs, Arthur G. Peterson found that the first such design was patented February 18, 1862, by P. H. Drake of Binghamton, New York (McKearin and Wilson, "American Bottles & Flasks and Their Ancestry," p. 302).
DescriptionAmber glass bitters bottle (log cabin type) blown in a three-part mold with deep down-tooled collar, three-tiered hipped roof with vertical ribbing and inscriptions "DRAKES PLANTATION BITTERS" and "PATENTED 1862," square body with broad horizontal ribs, and base with circular depression.
Markingsin relief: on obverse (roof): "DRAKES / PLANTATION / BITTERS" in relief: on reverse (roof): "PATENTED / 1862"
ClassificationsGLASS