Two examples of embossed panel bottles recovered from the House #2 area of the Reed Farmstead site. The process for embossing letters on panel bottles was developed and in use by the late 1850s, and patented in 1867. The specimen at left is a portion of a Gilbert Bros. & Co./Baltimore panel bottle (Fike 1987: 60-61). Research has yet to pinpoint a beginning date for this company, although it existed until ca. 1930. The specimen at right is a Barrell's Indian Liniment bottle (INDIAN/BARRELL'S/H.G.O. CARY CO/LINIMENT). Barrell's Liniment was produced by the H.G.O. Cary Company of Zanesville, Ohio; the advertisement for which has been observed as early as 1856 (Fike 1987: 133).
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