Prop Design - Bottles

For my medicine bottles I wanted really old looking glass with an old looking label and Top. I went down to the chemistry department in school and asked if they had any spare bottles, I was in luck because they gave me 20 smaller brown glass bottles and 5 clear glass bottles. I then made different labels using Photoshop and a font which I downloaded form www.Dafont.com 
I wanted the labels to look old and simplistic, so the font is an old type writer font with extra spacings between each letter. The label also has a simplistic navy blue boarder. For the lid the bottles originally had plastic tops but in 1912 injection moulding was not around so I decided to use corks instead. I was given a big bag of corks from Mama Fitch and I cut each one down to size to fit the tops of the the medicine bottles.
I researched other drugs other than Diamorphine and Morphine, such as Arsenic, Candonum, Opium and Chloral.
I then listed how I could make replicas for the bottles.

Arsenic – White crystals – flour

Morphine – clear liquid – water

Candonum – pink liquid – water and food colourings

Opium  - flakes when raw / brown rock – Corn flakes

Chloral – Colourless oily liquid – water

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloral
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium#Chemical_and_physiological_properties
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic#Chemical