vintage bottles
More vintage stuff that belonged to my grandparents. First up, the bottles that I mentioned at the end of my previous vintage boxes post. Several bottles of smelling salts for some reason. More for relieving catarrh than for the fainting, I think.
You can still buy Mackenzie's these days. I'm not linking direct to any shops, but the label is still pretty old-fashioned (this version is nicer)
More smelling salts. Boots is still around, obviously. Same logo as always.
Parke Davis still exists, so presumably they're still selling some kind of inhalant.
It's pretty hard to find out if this still exists due to the difficulty of googling the brand name. There is a health company in Rickmansworth bearing the same name but I haven't worked out from their shiny website if they have anything to do with the company that made this product decades ago. Whatever it was, it was really sticky judging from the residue on the bottle.
Googling brings up a few shops still selling this, though I haven't trawled through them all to see if the bottles are new or not. But back when it was a best-selling cure, it seemed to have been used for everything from sprained ankles to tired horses.
Googling for "Paul Bossoney" doesn't bring anything up, so I don't know if the shop still exists. Although I bet if Google thought I was in France I'd at least find lots of people with that name… (stupid filter bubble)
This is what inhalers used to look like before they invented plastic ones. Imagine the horror if it broke when you really needed your medicine!
And lastly for this post of vintage bits, here's an old box of Borgois rouge that my granny used to use. There's still some inside.
And an unopened pack of Gauloises from the 70s that I think must have belonged to my grandfather (he died in 1975). I'm not sure why the logo features Mercury's helmet, although I have an old book on cigarette packaging that might tell me (I shall dig it out and have a look).
More vintage stuff soon.