New Iberia Louisiana Urban Renewal; Rare Inks; in Old Bottle Magazine September 1976

*** An urban renewal ptoject in New Iberia, Louisiana: (Bayou Teche) brings up buried bottles; one page.

“Bayou tech meanders through new Iberia and it’s a lazy stream cutting through the city.…

“Homes still are all along the bayou with beautiful lawns, so you dare not dig in the residential part, but it’s a different story where the urban renewal is going on. Incidentally 100 or so years ago homes were also along the part that is now a bottle collector’s paradise. When buildings were being torn down in a solid block on Main Street along the Bayou, several Wells and privies were found and yielded many good bottles including pontil medicines, Lady’s Legs, whiskeys, etc

***Rara Inks:

English inks runs two facing pages.

*** After that comes single-page article on old Philadelphia ink bottles.

*** Discovering Perfumes columnist matches up the Fleur de Nuit bottle by Babbitt with an ad discovered in October 1924 Good Housekeeping magazine “making our bottle approximately 50 years old.”

*** Two piece transpositions are covered in Insulator By Lines, column.

Condition: Very Good. Smooth covers, all pages present and well-attached, no writing.

Inventory shelf 13.