Bottled-up demand for medicine that ‘restores life’ – auction record set for rare Victorian flask
A new record for an empty English medicine bottle was set by BBR Auctions in Elsecar, North Yorkshire when a Victorian flask of ‘Dr Sibley’s Solar Tincture’ took £8200.
The 7.75in (19cm) tapering rectangular bottle in aqua glass is a great rarity and this example is gr…