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Antique AMERICAN WORM SPECIFIC crude bottle w/ PONTIL from CIVIL WAR era or B 4
Antique AMERICAN WORM SPECIFIC crude bottle w/ PONTIL from CIVIL WAR era or B 4
Antique AMERICAN WORM SPECIFIC crude bottle w/ PONTIL from CIVIL WAR era or B 4
Antique AMERICAN WORM SPECIFIC crude bottle w/ PONTIL from CIVIL WAR era or B 4

Antique AMERICAN WORM SPECIFIC crude bottle w/ PONTIL from CIVIL WAR era or B 4

$ 52.79

Availability: 78 in stock
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Item must be returned within: 14 Days
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Item Description:: Worm medicine bottle from Civil War era or earlier
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
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  • Desirable Features:: * Amer WORM Specific * PONTILED * Mid 1800's *
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Country of Manufacture: United States
  • Color: Light TURQUOISE AQUA MARINE color
  • Era:: Antique (1845 - 1865 era)
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer

    Description

    A
    3 7/8 inch tall
    cylinder-shaped
    light TURQUOISE AQUA MARINE colored
    antique
    WORM KILLING medicine
    bottle.  This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
    B
    lown
    I
    nto
    M
    old bottle (
    BIM
    ) with a circular
    OPEN PONTIL
    mark on the base, ca.
    1845 - 1865
    era!
    Bottle embossed
    : "
    DOCTOR / McLANE,S / AMERICAN / SPECIFIC
    ".  NOTE that instead of an apostrophe in
    McLANE'S
    there is a comma, which speaks a little about the literate condition of folks back then.
    Condition
    :   This bottle is in good solid condition.  It has a 165 year-old patina finish on etched glass and lots of small bubbles and defects in the glass on account of the early glass blowing technique that was being practiced in America at this early date.  Bottle has
    NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.   Please s
    ee pictures for good idea of overall look
    .
    Age
    :  An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold-Applied-Top w/ Open-Pontil = BIMALOP) with a rolled lip, ca.
    1845 - 1865
    .
    Shipping
    :
    FREE
    domestic shipping.   We 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.
    We have actually dug these bottles up here in Montana, in the earliest towns.  As unpleasant as it sounds, the American Worm Specific that came in this bottle was used to kill worms in people, back when parasitic worms were not uncommon.  I believe Dr. McLane had his practice in St. Louis, which is just downstream (a few thousand miles) from Montana where these bottles are found.  During the Montana gold rush of the early 1860s, freight was brought up the Mississippi and Missouri River, by steam boats, to Fort Benton, Montana.  St. Louis merchants got rich in a hurry as the could sell a bottle of WORM SPECIFIC like this for many times what they could sell them on the home front for, and cases of the Worm Specific ended up in Montana Territory before the civil war had ended.  Anyway, lots of history in a bottle this old, the open pontil on the base dates it pre-1865 for sure, probably earlier than that.  This is a nice example,
    crude with a nice patina uniformly covering the bottle
    ,
    check it out!
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    !
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