Editor's Note: Malcolm A. Goldstein is a contributing blogger for 1898 Revenues. This post is part of a continuing column on the companies that used proprietary battleships.
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B. H. Bacon spent his working career in up-stateNew York Le Roy , N.Y. , an Erie Canal town between Rochester and Buffalo in Western New York . His two most prominent products were Otto’s Cure and Celery King. An 1895 announcement in one of the pharmaceutical trade magazines stated: “B. H. Bacon & Co., manufacturers of Otto’s Cure, have decided that Rochester Rochester , N.Y.
By 1901, Bacon himself had died, and the company incorporated. Otto’s Cure was advertised as late as 1906 as “the cure for coughs, colds, the grippe, whooping cough, asthma, bronchitis and incipient consumption.” Celery King was a nerve tonic meant to sooth everything from sleeplessness and nervous prostration and was advertised as a “positive cure” cure for an encyclopedia of ills ranging from constipation to heart disease.
In 1907, another patent medicine company, S. H. Wells & Co., itself located inLe Roy , N.Y. , purchased the B. H. Bacon Co., and removed the manufacturing facilities back to Le Roy , N.Y.
B. H. Bacon printed cancels from the collection of the late Henry Tolman. Tolman noted that the second and fourth stamps were "unlisted", meaning that the type was not listed in the Chappell/Joyce listing of proprietary printed cancels published in the 1950s.
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B. H. Bacon spent his working career in up-state
By 1901, Bacon himself had died, and the company incorporated. Otto’s Cure was advertised as late as 1906 as “the cure for coughs, colds, the grippe, whooping cough, asthma, bronchitis and incipient consumption.” Celery King was a nerve tonic meant to sooth everything from sleeplessness and nervous prostration and was advertised as a “positive cure” cure for an encyclopedia of ills ranging from constipation to heart disease.
In 1907, another patent medicine company, S. H. Wells & Co., itself located in
