Crazy Antique find! 1907 Drug Store!

[Chicago Democrat]

Wow... My freind does rehab on old buildings and he found a whole bunch of drugs from 1907! Crazy stuff like pills made of arsenic and things I can't read and vials of things that are poison. Mostly empty. One had heroin in it from 1907 made in Germany by Bayer Co AG (empty). This stuff is probably valuable. What should he do with it? I told him to sell it on Ebay.

[Reverend_Smitty]

1. get it appraised...

there is a market out there for it

[KitchenWitch]

2. Have it all appraised by an antique dealer

then sell it on eBay.

[flamingyouth]

3. Definitely he could sell it on eBay

There are tons of collectors of stuff like that out there.

(I'd actually love to see some of the labels :D)

[KitchenWitch]

4. BTW that stuff is of interest to owners of independent pharmacies.

[Occulus]

5. museum donation.

Especially the heroin. That's so hard to believe, it has value just in the fact it exists, but made by BAYER?? That's a mind-twister, if ever there was one...

[Chicago Democrat]

6. I swear! Its 10mg (injectable) and is from Germany....

I wish I had a digi camera. Anyway... I will try to get photos for everyone. AG Bayer...Germany Label is almost all there... Vial is empty.

[struggle4progress]

10. Bayer invented the stuff.

"Junk is the ideal product ... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy." -- William S. Burroughs, The Naked Lunch

[CanuckAmok]

7. I remember a few years ago...

...someone bought, sight unseen, an Arizona drugstore which had been boarded-up and abandoned in the 40s, when the town it was in became a ghost-town.

It was basically untouchedd since it was boarded-up, and was filled with priceless Coca-Cola stuff and drugs.

[KitchenWitch]

8. Bet they had bottles and bottles of Paregoric

another fine opium derivative. Off the market now!

[MissMarple]

9. Got laudanum? Just asking....

:-) Actually, it was given to ladies with "delicate" constitutions, quite respectably, you understand. :evilgrin: What a bunch of Protestant hypocrites they were.