Antique BATEMAN DROPS patent medicine EMBOSSED bottle - vial w/ OPIUM

Description

A
5 1/4 inch tall
cylinder-shaped clear-glass (
actually it has a sun colored amethyst tint to it
) a
ntique
OPIUM
and ALCOHOL
pain - killing MEDICINE BOTTLE that is
EMBOSSED on one side
and has a
PAPER LABEL
on the other side
.
Note that the paper label reads
"
One and nine tenths grain OPIUM ... ALCOHOL 50 %
"
though this bottle is completely
EMPTY
now, it has
NO
contents.
IMPORTANT NOTE:   The paper label on this bottle is a facsimile of the real label, a high quality reproduced copy of the label that originally came on this bottle
, but the bottle is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top, dating back to the 1800's.
Bottle embossed
:  "
BATEMAN  DROPS
".
Condition
:
This bottle is in nice clean condition.  It may have a trace of haze or wear but there are 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,
includes
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As mentioned, this example has a
light SUN COLORED AMETHYST hue
to the glass.   THIS BOTTLE has been in a private collection for several years, it is a super nice example.   You often see un-embossed tall slender round cylinder bottles just like this, for sale on eBay, and they are most always referred to as 'OPIUM' bottles.  The label shows why, and it is also
why we have the color-copied label on it
, to show that these vials DID originally come with an opiated substance, as the label mentions
'
OPIUM
' (and '
50 % ALCOHOL
'!)
No doubt these ingredients would ease the pain from whatever was bothering you
.  I believe that back in the day, products like this could of been purchased off of the shelf of an old time General Mercantile store but once the medicine was gone the pain came back and so another bottle was needed.  Then another, and another, and another, until the Pure Food and Drug Administration started cracking down on opiate laced medicines like this that were creating addictive patterns in even the most disciplined persons, much as this same problem is affecting the country today.  If is
especially desirable that both the embossing and the label read "BATEMAN DROPS"
,
c
heck it out!
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