Amethystine CALDER'S DENTINE antique TOOTH POWDER bottle CRISP & CLEAN !

Description

A
3" tall
cylinder-shaped
light PURPLE lavender AMETHYST color
antique TOOTH POWDER bottle
.  We had one of these bottles years ago that still had the paper label on it and
a flyer that claimed to cure about any problems that there could possibly be
related to the
MOUTH TEETH GUMS BREATH THROAT TOOTH
and about everything else!   This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top
, dating it back into the
late 1800's.
Bottle embossed
:   "
CALDER'S / ALC (motif) / DENTINE
".   (
ALC
= Alfred L. Calders)
Condition
:   This bottle is in good sturdy condition.  It has some haze and wear -- from age and use, but there isn't anything specifically wrong with it.  NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.
Age
:  An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late
1800's
.
Shipping
:
FREE
domestic shipping.   We do ship International but we do NOT insure International orders unless buyer specifically requests this and we are able to provide an insurance estimate.  If an international shipping charge is much more than the actual shipping cost, we will refund the excess so what YOU pay for shipping/insurance is very close to, if not exactly, the ACTUAL shipping costs! This is important for foreign buyers to know as most of our foreign shipping charges are estimates.  We do not falsify information on the Customs Form, such as a price other than what the actual purchase price is, so please do not request us to do so. We ship several times a week and your prompt payment will hasten the turn-around time.
A nice BOLDLY embossed bottle in a light
amethystine (sun colored amethyst) color
.   A
lbert Calder operated an old-time apothecary shop in Providence, Rhode Island, in the latter half of the 1800's.  Sometime around 1870 he started manufacturing a tooth powder which he branded, '
CALDER'S SAPONACEOUS DENTINE
'.  It had quite a successful run as the Calder Dentine Co. was in business all the way into the 1930's.  It was advertised as 'Calder's Saponaceous Dentine', and among several claims to it's curative power, it said that it 'prevented tooth decay, kept gums firm and red, the breath pure and sweet'.   A really great looking little Tooth Powder bottle in equally great condition.
Saponaceous is one of those lovely Victorian words that take the elaborate, poetic path to describe something quite common, in this case, soap.
So in reality,
Saponaceous Tooth Powder was t
ooth powder with soap.  Using this product was similar to
having your mouth washed out with soap, check it out!
* * NOTE:  We have a collection of antique DENTAL, TOOTH, TEETH related bottles and items that we are selling off.  Our father was a dentist and we collected these bottles over many years' time.  Some are quite rare and others are common but top end examples.  Please check our listings as we will work at listing the whole collection over the upcoming winter.  Feel free to contact us with questions.
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thank you
!
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