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Great Radium Spring Water Co. Bottle (ca. 1920) |
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This bottle of radioactive water (I assume the company claimed it was radioactive) was produced by the Great Radium Spring Water Co. Inc. of Pittsfield Mass. I have almost no information about this company, but thanks to some detective work on the part of Todd Jackson, we know that the Pittsfield telephone directory listed the Great Radium Spring Water Company at 24 North Street from 1919 through 1922. Was there really a "Radium Spring" in or around Pittsfield? Was the water elevated in activity? Was it possible that there was no such spring and that the water came straight from the town's water supply? If you have the answers, I'd love to hear from you. Size: 10" tall The photo below is a close-up of the embossed label - there does not appear to have been a paper label.
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