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Sfbieoam Sfbnapps.
OFFICE OF UDOLPHO WOLFE,
Sole Impo7 ter 0fIte Schiedana Aromatic SchnNpps,
No 80 Beaver-strcet.
NEW YORK. November 3. 1868. |


No 80 Beaver-strcet.
NEW YORK, November 3. 1868.
10 the People or the Southern Stntcss
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTOR ATIVE,
now so widely Known WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM
SCHNAPPS, was Introduced into the world under
the endorsement of four thousand leading members
of the medical profession twenty years ago, it's
proprietor was well that 1t could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all and useful
preparations. He therefore, endeavored TO invest ii
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiers, and to render all attempts to pirate it diff
cult and dangerous. 1t was submitted to dstin
gulshed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit manufactured. Its pur-
ty and properties having been thus ascertained
pies of the article were forwarded to ten thousand
physicians, including oil the leading practitioners in
the United States. for purposes of experiment. A
circular, requesting trial of the preparation and q
report OF the result, accompanied each specimen
Four thousand of the most eminent medical men in
the Union promptly responded. Their opinions of
the article were unanimously favorable Such a
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
ihe profession as reliance could be placed the
ordinary liquors of commerce. all Of which were
more or less adulterated. and therefore unfit for
medical purposes. The peculiar elence and
strength of the OF of juniper. which formed one of
the principal ingredients of the Schnapps, together
with an unalloyed character of the alcoholic ele-
ment, give it. in the estimation of the faculty,
marked superiority over every other diffusve stimu
liant as a diuretic. tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of the highest rank published in a con-
densed form, and enclosed with each bottle of the
schnapps, as one of the guarantees of It's genuine.
ness. Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted; patentwas obtained for the article, the
1oN o1
autograph signature attached to each label and
cover his and that of the preparation were en-
bossed the botties and the corks sealed with
his private seal. No article had ever beer sold in
this country under the name Of Schnapps prior to
the introduction Of Wolfe's schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps, in 1851; and the label deposited, as
his trade mark, in the United States District Court
for the Southern District of New York during that
year.
1t might be supposed by persons unacquainted
with the during character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation orhonorablc merchantsby vend-
Ing doleterous trash under their that the pro-
tecdons 80 carefully thrown around those schnapps
would have precluded the intreducions and sale Of
counterfeits They seem, however. only TO have
stimulated the rapacity Of impostors. The trade
mark of tho proprietor has been stolen the ndorse
meat which his schiedam Aromatic sehnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been inflated. his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than all,
dlshonoraoe retailers after dsposing Of the genuine
contents of his bottles, have flod them up with
common gin, the most deeerious Of all liquors. and
thus made his name and brlnd for poison.
] he public, the medical profession and the sick,
for whom the Schiedam Aromatic schnapps is pre-
scrtbed as remedy, are equally interestcj with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression of these
nearous PRACTICES. The genuine article, mauuiac-
tured at the establishment of the undersigned in
chiedam, Holland, is distilled from barley of the
finest quality, and favored with essential extract
Of the berry of the italian juniper of unequacd pu-
rity. BY process unknown in the preparation of
any other liquor it is freed from every acrimonious
and corrosive clement.
Complaints have been received from the leading
physicians and families in the Southern States of
the sale of cheap limitations of the Schiedam Aro-
matte Schnapps in those markets; and travellers,
who in the habit OF using nm antidoe to the
baneful influence oY' unwholesomo river water tes-
tify that cheap gin, put up in Schiedam bottles is
frequently palmed off upon the unwary. The
agents of the updHretgned have be on requested to
institute fHtuSe!es on tha subject, ana to forward to
him the names of such parties as they may asc,r-
tain to be engaged in the atrocieus system decep
tlon In conclusion, the undersigned would say that
he has produced, from under the hands Of the most
distinguished men of science in America, preofs un
answerable Of the purity and medicinal excel
lence OF the Schiedam Aromatic schnapps /; that
he has expended many thousand dollars in sur
rounding 1t with guarantees and safeguards which
he designed should protect the public and himself
against fraudulent imitations that lie has shown 1t
to be the only liquor the world that can be UNI
formly depended upon nadulteratcd; tn he has
challenged investigation, analysis, comparison and
experiment in all its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation whi h bears his Dame trade
mark, has come of triumphant. He, therefore, feels
it duty he to lis tellow-citizsns generally to
the medical profession and the slok to denounce
and expose the charlaans who counterfeit these evil
denotes of identity and he calls upon the press and
the public to aid him HE efforts to remedy SO great
an evil.
The following letters and certificates from the
leading Physicians and chemists of this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the under
signe are all that they are repre- ented to be.
UDOLPHO WOLFE.
Ifeel bound to say, that regard your Selma ,ps
as being In every respect pre-eminently pure, and
deserving OF medical patronage. at all events is
the purest possible article of Holland Gin hereto
tore unobtalnaOle, and such may be safely pr,
scrtbed by physicians.
DAVID L. MOTT. M. D.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York
26 PINE-sTREET, NEW YORK.
November 81, 1867. I
UDoLPHo WOLFE, Esq, Present:
Dear Sir have made chemical examination of
o sample Of your Sch,edam Schnapps, with the in.
tent Of determining If any foreign or injurious
stance had been added to the simple distilled spirits
The examination has resulted IN the conclusion
that the sample contained no POISONOUS or h .rmful
admixture. have uesn unable to discover any
trace OF the deleterious substances wioh are em.
plOy Ell in the aduteraton OF liquors. I would not
hesitate to myself or to recomm. nd to others,
for medicinal purposes. the schedam schnapps as
an excellent and unobjectionable variety OF GIN
Very respectfully yours,
(Signed,) CHAS. A. SEkLY. Chemist.
NEW YonK, No. So CEDAR-srREET.
November 20. 1857 I
UDoLpHe WoxSE, Esq, Present:
Dear Sir! have submitted to chemical analy sis
two bottles OF "schiedam Schnapps," wDich took
from fresh package in your boned warehouse, ana
fnd a. before. that the eptratuous Iiuuor ia tree